200,000 lightyears away is assuming these beings are limited to physics like we are, what if they have complete control of time space and matter? Then we'd be amusement for these ETs
The search for intelligent life? Ok lets say aliens saw our radio signals, either they'd laugh at us as we laugh at monkeys in the zoo, or they'd enslave us.
Really we dont want either of these situations ot happen, but really you make a good point, with nano technology and say brain to computer interface and AI, we wont be anything like what we are now, we will most likely be meta physical, most likely be able to transofrm matter into anything we want, most likely have telepathy via advanced communications technologies. If this is us in a few hundred years, then if we are looking for aliens that are millions of billions of years old, chances are they already know where we are and what we are doing and are laughing at us right now.
Think about it, anything thousands or millions of years more advanced than us would be like gods to us, literally.
Hopefully we dont end up attracting evil aliens who want to turn us into their pets,slaves, or put us in zoos like we do monkeys and wild animals. But hey, thats the chance you take when you waste time with Seti and give aliens a complete map to the solar system (as if they dont already have one) and give aliens our DNA (thats the dumbest possible idea every thought of)
Giving aliens our DNA means, any group of aliens can simply use our DNA to look exactly like us and blend into our population and we would have no way of knowing it
of course idiots at seti and other fools who send stupid probes into space without thinking first, believe aliens will be as dumb as us and havent mastered what we dont understand.
Its as much of a waste of resources as is running a pathetic benchmark program on your machine for days at a time just so you can have bragging rights.
Come on people, use these resources to cure cancer or something.
Seti is POINTLESS, even Seti knows Seti is pointless,they only do it because they get paid to do it, and because people are dumb enough to give up free resources to them.
Think about this, the search for intelligent life, with such pathetic technology as radio, please!! as if any alien would respond? Would we even respond if we started seeing alien signals in our crops? hell no we'd call it a hoax!!
Why not cure cancer? aids? anything?!?!? but sending radio signals to aliens in space is just plain stupid and a waste of time.
First of all, if you are looking for "intelligent" life, meaning more intelligent than us, chances are they will find us first, we wont have to search for more advanced life.
And primitive life? well they wouldnt have the technology to respond to radio signals, so what Seti really is searching for is human like life, on exactly the same technologicial level as us, the chances of finding this is 1 in billions literally do the math here.
So what is seti? A waste of time, and its equal to shouting in the jungle hoping you'll make friends with some wild animals, when in reality, none of them understand you and only run away from you, or attack you.
Like I said, theres much more important things to worry about than soundwaves in space and finding some aliens which may or may not be friendly and which are mostly as stupid as us.
Whats the point? If anyone can give me one reason why to donate resuorces to seti instead of the cancer cure research or aids cure, I'll give you a prize!
Technology is leading information on the net to being free, Eventually you wont have to pay ot host anything,everything will be hosted via peer to peer.
So this is about greedy big corperations who want to keep profiting on the net.
The net was better WITHOUT these corperations so fuck them, lets go back to how the net was when it was at its peak, when regular users were making sites and actually making money, getting famous, and the sites were better because it wasnt about all the money
Who really benifits from penny per page technology, small sites? No. Important sites? No. Big corperate sites like MSN.com and Yahoo.com? YES!
So why should WE support something not even built for US.
We wouldnt make ANY money from penny per page technology if we cant get any hits!!
We are better off using memberships and incentives if we need to make money.
Want to access a certain portion of the site? SUBSCRIBE for $2 a month.
This penny idea benifits only people who get a billion hits, not sites that are important but may not get as many hits.
Think about it.
I dont agree with paying for information, but i WILL pay for service, I WILL pay a small subscrition, maybe $5 a year to a website which i really value, at the most $10.
And i think others will too, but i wont pay to view a site, Thats the WRONG IDEA.
Thats like the RIAAs idea of paying to LISTEN to music that you dont REALLY own.
Or Microsofts.Net idea of renting software.
This doesnt benifit the economy, or the consumer, it only benifits the people who already have a monopoly, dont fall for it.
It shouldnt be about money, I believe information should be free.
Anyone who agrees with the GPL, Open source, etc etc, would know that selling websites is as stupid as selling source code.
Sure people sell source code, but selling source code isnt really helping technology progress faster.
Websites? We dont have to sell websites since they cost NOTHING to make except time, so why pay for it? You'll be paying some big million dollar corperation like Microsoft a penny to view their site, not some small time site.
SO why argue about this? hopeufully big huge sites will go out of business except for search engines and "NEEDED" sites, and it will bring the net back to the way it was at its peak in 1996-97, when we had as many user created sites as we had commercial sites.
With stuff like freenet and distributed computing technologies, hosting a site in theory is free, so the technology is there, GREEDY sites want to chanrge you
now i understand companies have to make money to pay bills, but when I know technology will make these bills no longer exsist, then i dont care if no one pays.
Lets forget about charging for sites and develop free hosting alternatives using peer to peer or distributed technologies.
Websites are art, just like programming is art, websites host information like source code is information, so if we can have "free" software, why not a free web?
If we have globalization, who will be in control?
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The USA of course.
This is the problem, anyone who accepts this has to work for us. I dont think people want to do that.
Wheres FMD? Its been completely finished for 3 years now, and no manufacture is touching it because they all want to support DVD, and support technologies approved by the movie and record companies. Technology which is too powerful to control, is surpressed for as long as possible until some small company begins selling a product based on it, THEN big companies jump into the picture because they have no choice.
Fact is hate sites should be monitored, any site which threatens anyone should be taken down.
Non violent hate sites can stay up but they should all be monitored.
kiddie porn sites too, people who subscribe to these kiddie porn sites should be arrested, and kiddie porn sites which profit should be illegal, but you cannot legally stop the free trade of information on the internet.
So that means you cannot stop mp3s, hate sites or kiddie porn, this all must be legal to have true freedom, it should be legal, but there should be concequences if you try to profit from it, or if you get caught downloading it.
Napster should be legal, but hey if you use napster ot pirate mp3s, thats your problem, and if you use morpheus to get kiddie porn, and someone monitors you and reports you, that is your problem.
On the internet at least.
Meaning warez files are legal,
mp3s are legally traded, source code legally shared
true freedom of information.
However some people will abuse this so there should be strict rules to follow. Like no profiting from it, meaning hate groups cannot accept donations.
Meaning napster like companies cannot earn a profit off of other peoples mp3s.
Meaning warez people cannot earn profits off of other peoples files.
Free information is one thing, but there should be rules.
Anyone should be able to say or share any information, but there needs to be rules.
If the people in europe believe hate sites are bad, while its not right to totally censor, they do have a right to make it difficult to host a hate site, by setting rules in place that make hosting a hate sitee difficult
Meaning speech, meaning source code, meaning all digital information, and not free as in you dont pay for it, but free as in anyone can write anything they want, and own any file, and trade any file.
This is freedom of expression, freedom of thought, etc
Now about the hate sites, you cannot Ban them from the internet, what they should do is treat hate sites like they treat kiddie porn sites
Meaning they should be monitored, the people should have a right to launch these sites but there should be rules. No one can have a hate site which threatens anyone for example,
people can host a kiddie porn site in europe, doesnt mean people wont arrest them for doing it.
People can host a hate site too, but if they choose to host this, they better be careful.
I'm totally against censorship, but i dont like hate sites, or kiddie porn sites, and i'm sure alot of other technically gifted people dont like them either
So anyone hosting a site like that wont have to worry about the government censoring them they should worry about the hackers who constantly hack them, the carnivore like tools constantly monitoring them.
Think of it like this, if Usama bin laden had a site, theres no rule saying he cant host a site, but if he hosts one you better believe people would be monitoring every thing he does.
IF you dont want to use KDE, then use Enlightenment
no one forces you to use it
Uh because you harddrive and CPU is slow
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The Start speed usually depends on the speed of your harddrive mostly, Get a faster one, KDE starts up a hell of a lot faster than WindowsXP, Sure KDE is slower than blackbox and Gnome at starting up, but as long as its faster than XP (its competition) then why are we worrying about this?
Powerful programs take longer to start up, the more powerful KDE becomes the longer it will take to start up, Upgrade your harddrive.
KDE did copy windows, but windows copied KDE
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KDE created the grouped tasks feature that Microsoft stole in XP. I remember using this in KDE before XP even exsisted.
And KDE did use features from OSX, then again Microsoft copied OSX too, Face it everyone copies everyone, Microsoft stole from Apple who stole from Xerox. Fact is, Good features get copied.
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If people go cow tipping, they race dogs around tracks, they fight dogs, all for amusement, why cant aliens do the same to us?
200,000 lightyears away is assuming these beings are limited to physics like we are, what if they have complete control of time space and matter? Then we'd be amusement for these ETs
Not only our DNA but maps to the solar system,
what kinda stupid idiot species gives out their own DNA and a MAP to their planet.
Ok walk into a dark alley and leave a knife, and a note saying where you live.
What are your chances that some killer is going to find this and walk right in your door and stab you?
The search for intelligent life? Ok lets say aliens saw our radio signals, either they'd laugh at us as we laugh at monkeys in the zoo, or they'd enslave us.
Really we dont want either of these situations ot happen, but really you make a good point, with nano technology and say brain to computer interface and AI, we wont be anything like what we are now, we will most likely be meta physical, most likely be able to transofrm matter into anything we want, most likely have telepathy via advanced communications technologies. If this is us in a few hundred years, then if we are looking for aliens that are millions of billions of years old, chances are they already know where we are and what we are doing and are laughing at us right now.
Think about it, anything thousands or millions of years more advanced than us would be like gods to us, literally.
Hopefully we dont end up attracting evil aliens who want to turn us into their pets
Giving aliens our DNA means, any group of aliens can simply use our DNA to look exactly like us and blend into our population and we would have no way of knowing it
of course idiots at seti and other fools who send stupid probes into space without thinking first, believe aliens will be as dumb as us and havent mastered what we dont understand.
Its as much of a waste of resources as is running a pathetic benchmark program on your machine for days at a time just so you can have bragging rights.
Come on people, use these resources to cure cancer or something.
Seti is POINTLESS, even Seti knows Seti is pointless
Think about this, the search for intelligent life, with such pathetic technology as radio, please!! as if any alien would respond? Would we even respond if we started seeing alien signals in our crops? hell no we'd call it a hoax!!
Why not cure cancer? aids? anything?!?!? but sending radio signals to aliens in space is just plain stupid and a waste of time.
First of all, if you are looking for "intelligent" life, meaning more intelligent than us, chances are they will find us first, we wont have to search for more advanced life.
And primitive life? well they wouldnt have the technology to respond to radio signals, so what Seti really is searching for is human like life, on exactly the same technologicial level as us, the chances of finding this is 1 in billions literally do the math here.
So what is seti? A waste of time, and its equal to shouting in the jungle hoping you'll make friends with some wild animals, when in reality, none of them understand you and only run away from you, or attack you.
Like I said, theres much more important things to worry about than soundwaves in space and finding some aliens which may or may not be friendly and which are mostly as stupid as us.
Whats the point? If anyone can give me one reason why to donate resuorces to seti instead of the cancer cure research or aids cure, I'll give you a prize!
before we ruin all the other planets in space
we should focus on earth right now.
Why stuff their pockets with pennies?
The second they start to tax the web
freenet or something like it will offer the free alternative.
its a stupid idea
Technology is leading information on the net to being free, Eventually you wont have to pay ot host anything
So this is about greedy big corperations who want to keep profiting on the net.
The net was better WITHOUT these corperations so fuck them, lets go back to how the net was when it was at its peak, when regular users were making sites and actually making money, getting famous, and the sites were better because it wasnt about all the money
Who really benifits from penny per page technology, small sites? No. Important sites? No. Big corperate sites like MSN.com and Yahoo.com? YES!
So why should WE support something not even built for US.
We wouldnt make ANY money from penny per page technology if we cant get any hits!!
We are better off using memberships and incentives if we need to make money.
Want to access a certain portion of the site? SUBSCRIBE for $2 a month.
This penny idea benifits only people who get a billion hits, not sites that are important but may not get as many hits.
Think about it.
I dont agree with paying for information, but i WILL pay for service, I WILL pay a small subscrition, maybe $5 a year to a website which i really value, at the most $10.
And i think others will too, but i wont pay to view a site, Thats the WRONG IDEA.
Thats like the RIAAs idea of paying to LISTEN to music that you dont REALLY own.
Or Microsofts
This doesnt benifit the economy, or the consumer, it only benifits the people who already have a monopoly, dont fall for it.
It shouldnt be about money, I believe information should be free.
Anyone who agrees with the GPL, Open source, etc etc, would know that selling websites is as stupid as selling source code.
Sure people sell source code, but selling source code isnt really helping technology progress faster.
Websites? We dont have to sell websites since they cost NOTHING to make except time, so why pay for it? You'll be paying some big million dollar corperation like Microsoft a penny to view their site, not some small time site.
SO why argue about this? hopeufully big huge sites will go out of business except for search engines and "NEEDED" sites, and it will bring the net back to the way it was at its peak in 1996-97, when we had as many user created sites as we had commercial sites.
With stuff like freenet and distributed computing technologies, hosting a site in theory is free, so the technology is there, GREEDY sites want to chanrge you
now i understand companies have to make money to pay bills, but when I know technology will make these bills no longer exsist, then i dont care if no one pays.
Lets forget about charging for sites and develop free hosting alternatives using peer to peer or distributed technologies.
Websites are art, just like programming is art, websites host information like source code is information, so if we can have "free" software, why not a free web?
The USA of course.
This is the problem, anyone who accepts this has to work for us. I dont think people want to do that.
What if other companies want an economy like ours? Well if we globalize, then all the money goes to us.
Makes me think of people working in sweat shops for a penny so we can get some pair of shoes.
I want to see evil dead 4!
Will you be in another evil dead movie?
The register gets as many hits as this site if not more and even it was slashdotted
Wheres FMD? Its been completely finished for 3 years now, and no manufacture is touching it because they all want to support DVD, and support technologies approved by the movie and record companies. Technology which is too powerful to control, is surpressed for as long as possible until some small company begins selling a product based on it, THEN big companies jump into the picture because they have no choice.
Try threatening the president.
Fact is hate sites should be monitored, any site which threatens anyone should be taken down.
Non violent hate sites can stay up but they should all be monitored.
kiddie porn sites too, people who subscribe to these kiddie porn sites should be arrested, and kiddie porn sites which profit should be illegal, but you cannot legally stop the free trade of information on the internet.
So that means you cannot stop mp3s, hate sites or kiddie porn, this all must be legal to have true freedom, it should be legal, but there should be concequences if you try to profit from it, or if you get caught downloading it.
Napster should be legal, but hey if you use napster ot pirate mp3s, thats your problem, and if you use morpheus to get kiddie porn, and someone monitors you and reports you, that is your problem.
On the internet at least.
Meaning warez files are legal,
mp3s are legally traded, source code legally shared
true freedom of information.
However some people will abuse this so there should be strict rules to follow. Like no profiting from it, meaning hate groups cannot accept donations.
Meaning napster like companies cannot earn a profit off of other peoples mp3s.
Meaning warez people cannot earn profits off of other peoples files.
Free information is one thing, but there should be rules.
Anyone should be able to say or share any information, but there needs to be rules.
If the people in europe believe hate sites are bad, while its not right to totally censor, they do have a right to make it difficult to host a hate site, by setting rules in place that make hosting a hate sitee difficult
Meaning speech, meaning source code, meaning all digital information, and not free as in you dont pay for it, but free as in anyone can write anything they want, and own any file, and trade any file.
This is freedom of expression, freedom of thought, etc
Now about the hate sites, you cannot Ban them from the internet, what they should do is treat hate sites like they treat kiddie porn sites
Meaning they should be monitored, the people should have a right to launch these sites but there should be rules. No one can have a hate site which threatens anyone for example,
people can host a kiddie porn site in europe, doesnt mean people wont arrest them for doing it.
People can host a hate site too, but if they choose to host this, they better be careful.
I'm totally against censorship, but i dont like hate sites, or kiddie porn sites, and i'm sure alot of other technically gifted people dont like them either
So anyone hosting a site like that wont have to worry about the government censoring them they should worry about the hackers who constantly hack them, the carnivore like tools constantly monitoring them.
Think of it like this, if Usama bin laden had a site, theres no rule saying he cant host a site, but if he hosts one you better believe people would be monitoring every thing he does.
So now they abuse their power by changing the laws when its convient.
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IF you dont want to use KDE, then use Enlightenment
no one forces you to use it
The Start speed usually depends on the speed of your harddrive mostly, Get a faster one, KDE starts up a hell of a lot faster than WindowsXP, Sure KDE is slower than blackbox and Gnome at starting up, but as long as its faster than XP (its competition) then why are we worrying about this?
Powerful programs take longer to start up, the more powerful KDE becomes the longer it will take to start up, Upgrade your harddrive.
KDE created the grouped tasks feature that Microsoft stole in XP. I remember using this in KDE before XP even exsisted.
And KDE did use features from OSX, then again Microsoft copied OSX too, Face it everyone copies everyone, Microsoft stole from Apple who stole from Xerox. Fact is, Good features get copied.