If this takes off, how long you think it'll last online before the gov't declares it a 'terrorist informational tool' and starts (pardon the pun) terrorizing the masterminds of this one?
Helluva idea, but I have a feeling it'll highly piss off our lovely government.
Your views on the US government are only about 100 years outdated, if not more. There's a reason the country was founded on the premise of not trusting a federal government.
What we have now is exactly what wasn't supposed to happen.
Did I miss something? Is there some unwritten rule I missed out on where engineers love crappy, foreign, enviornmentally sound compact cars?
I mean, really. A HONDA CIVIC?!?!?
There's a couple genuinely spiffy cars in that list, but the majority of them...no. Hell, if we wanna generalize engineers, most of us are too damn fat to fit in a Civic anyway.:)
"At this point, I think the technical approach has more promise than the legal one," said Sorkin. "Filters have done more to block unsolicited e-mail than any piece of legislation."
And that's how it'll be till the end of time, or until the entire world comes under 1 rule, which then passes a law carrying ungodly massive penalties for sending spam.
Laws regulating the Internet just don't work. Too much real estate for anyyone to work out of.
"He speculated the mission might have to risk a flight rather than see years of research and millions of euros go to waste."
Kudos to them for keeping at it, at least. Too many space missions/projects are canned after a few failures. If we're going to get ANYWHERE in space in the next 100 years, we need more of this persistance. Take some risks, see what happens.
(Admittedly, I don't know how wise it would be to scrap it now and tell the gov't you just wasted a zillion bucks, but still.)
I missed the game, but I wanted your thoughts on the paintball scenario game you participated in this last September. Heard you had some wild times. Tell us a lovely story of shooting people with paint!
"Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"
Yep. It's a company called Microsoft, and an HTML *cough* editor *cough* known as FrontPage. They stuff plenty of pointless meta tags in there for you.
Is this really going to change anything? How many laws do we have either in creation or already existing vs email spam? Has the amount of spam lessened?
How easy is it for a spammer (by any market) to just move their base of operations to another area, where there are no such laws? How are you going to enforce this?
Really, I could declare a ban on any obnoxious thing in our world, and god knows there are plenty of such things. Enforcing most of them would be an absolute nightmare, assuming anyone even bothers to try.
No no no. This is actually Mr. Burns' long term plan to destroy the sun, again. The plan is to bring in so many rocks to orbit the earth, that the entire space surrounding us will be filled with such objects, preventing the dreaded sun from reaching us.
It may take another few hundred thousand years, but eventually, we will all fall under the sway of Burns Nuclear Power yet again.
True, (although I did beat the system and get a job with no degree, but anyway), but that doesn't mean I can't bitch about the people coming out of college with no real knowledge of what they are doing. Especially on/.:)
I've said it before, I'll say it again. You don't go to college to learn about computers. Designers/Artists, maybe. Technical stuff (programming especially), no. You learn it by deciding you want to do something, and doing it. You make mistakes, you learn what you did wrong, you fix it, you learn. This is a process that simply does not happen in college classes, thanks to a whole multitude of reasons/distractions that anyone who has been in college knows. Not to mention the fact that the technology will be dated before the graduates can attempt to apply said instruction.
I honestly hope this doesn't catch on, else in about 10 years we're going to be flooded with a whole new generation of people with degrees and zero practical knowledge, taking jobs from people who actually know what they are doing, yet have no degree. Joy.
This would not be an improvement. This would backfire as an ungodly boring turnabout. Why?
Drop some of the weapon restrictions. EMP burst, boom, I win. Game over. Joy. Hell, just blast water at the other guy, and let him short out. Yawn.
It takes a bit of skill to design a physical weapon that will incapacitate these beasts. It takes nothing more than a thick checkbook to build a machine that will incapacitate remote controlled vehicles.
Going to the moon is pretty much BFD these days, regardless of *who* does it.
What I want to see is a nation or a group of nations going to the moon for the purpose of DOING something. Not just collecting rocks or whatever the hell is usually done. Beginning mining operations, perhaps? Setting up a permanent lunar base? Off-world factories? ANYTHING!
I'd like to think we're beyond popping the hatch and poking our heads out the door, then flying back, or at least should be working that way.
And in other news...several thousand Bay Area computer professionals spontaneously combusted during their march. Experts speculate cause of death due to direct exposure to sunlight.
One San Fransisco man noted, "I could not believe it. It was like they had never seen the sun before. There was this god forsaken hiss of pain, then they all just started melting!"
I do think sentient life exists in the universe. Rare conditions for life forming aside, space is...big. Bigger than any one of us can possibly fathom. The thought that one single, tiny, infintesimal speck of dirt harbors the only sentient life is ridiculous, IMO.
Anyway, the point that's rarely brought up. Is it not entirely possible that humanity is the most advanced race (currently existing) to date? Perhaps the reason, aside from the fact that OUR decection methods aren't too great, is simply that we're trying to listen in and broadcast to species that are far less advanced than our own.
And of course, a similar, but more considered option is the fact that, since space is still Big, races roughly on par with out tech may not have heard us calling yet, just as we may have not heard their calls yes. Wait a few thousand more years, maybe we'll hear something.
GM: Okay, you arrive at the lair of the dragon. Wizard: I sit down and read my book. Fighter: Cleric! Heal me NOW! Cleric: We haven't even entered combat yet! Fighter: Buff me then! Cleric: Gimme the 300 platinum it costs to cast, and I might. Fighter: See if I get my ass beat on to cover you, then. I'll guard the wizard instead. Wizard: *still staring at a book* GM: Um...guys? The dragon is looking at you. Fighter: Not until I get my buffs, dammit!
They (RIAA) want to control it all. I seriously they doubt they give a rats ass about the chump change the internet generates in comparison to CD sales. It's quite obvious that most of the independant internet broadcasters (or really, more traditional radio broadcasters w/ internet casting as well) can't afford this price, and surprise surprise, the RIAA is using the legal system to squash an industry that they don't financially own.
That, and guess what? The RIAA can use this to threaten legal action against anyone who broadcasts music online.
So there's your answer. Manipulation of an already corrupted legal system to tighten their fist around everyone and everything. That's why they are doing this.
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If this takes off, how long you think it'll last online before the gov't declares it a 'terrorist informational tool' and starts (pardon the pun) terrorizing the masterminds of this one?
Helluva idea, but I have a feeling it'll highly piss off our lovely government.
Your views on the US government are only about 100 years outdated, if not more. There's a reason the country was founded on the premise of not trusting a federal government.
What we have now is exactly what wasn't supposed to happen.
Congressman Wexler has added to his holdings, having purchased a yacht to go along with his mansion.
Did I miss something? Is there some unwritten rule I missed out on where engineers love crappy, foreign, enviornmentally sound compact cars?
I mean, really. A HONDA CIVIC?!?!?
There's a couple genuinely spiffy cars in that list, but the majority of them...no. Hell, if we wanna generalize engineers, most of us are too damn fat to fit in a Civic anyway.
"At this point, I think the technical approach has more promise than the legal one," said Sorkin. "Filters have done more to block unsolicited e-mail than any piece of legislation."
And that's how it'll be till the end of time, or until the entire world comes under 1 rule, which then passes a law carrying ungodly massive penalties for sending spam.
Laws regulating the Internet just don't work. Too much real estate for anyyone to work out of.
There is no beginning or ending to the Wheel of Time.
"He speculated the mission might have to risk a flight rather than see years of research and millions of euros go to waste."
Kudos to them for keeping at it, at least. Too many space missions/projects are canned after a few failures. If we're going to get ANYWHERE in space in the next 100 years, we need more of this persistance. Take some risks, see what happens.
(Admittedly, I don't know how wise it would be to scrap it now and tell the gov't you just wasted a zillion bucks, but still.)
I shudder to think of the senseless violence I would cause when my coffee pot BSOD'd.
I missed the game, but I wanted your thoughts on the paintball scenario game you participated in this last September. Heard you had some wild times. Tell us a lovely story of shooting people with paint!
Last name?
/runs and turns off Slashdot modding powers.
Nielsen.
Mental note. Rate nothing. Ever.
"Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"
Yep. It's a company called Microsoft, and an HTML *cough* editor *cough* known as FrontPage. They stuff plenty of pointless meta tags in there for you.
Is this really going to change anything? How many laws do we have either in creation or already existing vs email spam? Has the amount of spam lessened?
How easy is it for a spammer (by any market) to just move their base of operations to another area, where there are no such laws? How are you going to enforce this?
Really, I could declare a ban on any obnoxious thing in our world, and god knows there are plenty of such things. Enforcing most of them would be an absolute nightmare, assuming anyone even bothers to try.
No no no. This is actually Mr. Burns' long term plan to destroy the sun, again. The plan is to bring in so many rocks to orbit the earth, that the entire space surrounding us will be filled with such objects, preventing the dreaded sun from reaching us.
It may take another few hundred thousand years, but eventually, we will all fall under the sway of Burns Nuclear Power yet again.
True, (although I did beat the system and get a job with no degree, but anyway), but that doesn't mean I can't bitch about the people coming out of college with no real knowledge of what they are doing. Especially on
I've said it before, I'll say it again. You don't go to college to learn about computers. Designers/Artists, maybe. Technical stuff (programming especially), no. You learn it by deciding you want to do something, and doing it. You make mistakes, you learn what you did wrong, you fix it, you learn. This is a process that simply does not happen in college classes, thanks to a whole multitude of reasons/distractions that anyone who has been in college knows. Not to mention the fact that the technology will be dated before the graduates can attempt to apply said instruction.
I honestly hope this doesn't catch on, else in about 10 years we're going to be flooded with a whole new generation of people with degrees and zero practical knowledge, taking jobs from people who actually know what they are doing, yet have no degree. Joy.
This would not be an improvement. This would backfire as an ungodly boring turnabout. Why?
Drop some of the weapon restrictions. EMP burst, boom, I win. Game over. Joy. Hell, just blast water at the other guy, and let him short out. Yawn.
It takes a bit of skill to design a physical weapon that will incapacitate these beasts. It takes nothing more than a thick checkbook to build a machine that will incapacitate remote controlled vehicles.
Going to the moon is pretty much BFD these days, regardless of *who* does it.
What I want to see is a nation or a group of nations going to the moon for the purpose of DOING something. Not just collecting rocks or whatever the hell is usually done. Beginning mining operations, perhaps? Setting up a permanent lunar base? Off-world factories? ANYTHING!
I'd like to think we're beyond popping the hatch and poking our heads out the door, then flying back, or at least should be working that way.
And in other news...several thousand Bay Area computer professionals spontaneously combusted during their march. Experts speculate cause of death due to direct exposure to sunlight.
One San Fransisco man noted, "I could not believe it. It was like they had never seen the sun before. There was this god forsaken hiss of pain, then they all just started melting!"
Oh come on. Guinness not on tap is bad anyway. At least go for a keg of guinness. Keep your $100. I'd sell my soul for that keg alone.
I do think sentient life exists in the universe. Rare conditions for life forming aside, space is...big. Bigger than any one of us can possibly fathom. The thought that one single, tiny, infintesimal speck of dirt harbors the only sentient life is ridiculous, IMO.
Anyway, the point that's rarely brought up. Is it not entirely possible that humanity is the most advanced race (currently existing) to date? Perhaps the reason, aside from the fact that OUR decection methods aren't too great, is simply that we're trying to listen in and broadcast to species that are far less advanced than our own.
And of course, a similar, but more considered option is the fact that, since space is still Big, races roughly on par with out tech may not have heard us calling yet, just as we may have not heard their calls yes. Wait a few thousand more years, maybe we'll hear something.
Oh dear god no.
Excerpt from tabletop session of EQ:
GM: Okay, you arrive at the lair of the dragon.
Wizard: I sit down and read my book.
Fighter: Cleric! Heal me NOW!
Cleric: We haven't even entered combat yet!
Fighter: Buff me then!
Cleric: Gimme the 300 platinum it costs to cast, and I might.
Fighter: See if I get my ass beat on to cover you, then. I'll guard the wizard instead.
Wizard: *still staring at a book*
GM: Um...guys? The dragon is looking at you.
Fighter: Not until I get my buffs, dammit!
In a word. No.
In two words. HELL NO.
They (RIAA) want to control it all. I seriously they doubt they give a rats ass about the chump change the internet generates in comparison to CD sales. It's quite obvious that most of the independant internet broadcasters (or really, more traditional radio broadcasters w/ internet casting as well) can't afford this price, and surprise surprise, the RIAA is using the legal system to squash an industry that they don't financially own.
That, and guess what? The RIAA can use this to threaten legal action against anyone who broadcasts music online.
So there's your answer. Manipulation of an already corrupted legal system to tighten their fist around everyone and everything. That's why they are doing this.
Does anyone else find it ironic that China is complaining about internet traffic restrictions?
Pot. Kettle. Black.
If this existed Back in the Day, we would never had been able to make fun of William Shatner for all those dramatic pauses after every word.
And where would we be without the William Shatner School of Acting?