Check out ANY Canadian news source for the lastest news, like the Natinoal Post, here's a clip:
ORLEANS, Ont. - A 15-year-old boy who was often teased by his peers went on a stabbing rampage in an Ottawa-area high school yesterday, an attack that came on the first anniversary of the fatal school shooting in Columbine, Colo.
The story has already been submitted to Slashdot, now we wait.
Let's not kid ourselves, even though/. and some media trashed Mosaic, it still is being used. We can assume that the same will be said for this program.
What would happen if in the first school applied, every student turned in every other student? Or, if 10 anonymous students or so reported on everyone...including themselves?
It would seem easier to screw the system using it's own rules, rather that trying to disprove it from the outside.
So if any students of one of the first schools is reading this message, please organize yourself and a few friends and talk about this idea. If you want to see what could happen, watch the episode in South Park where every one in town, sues.....everyone in town!
Seems like this would be the best forum to ask the question. Is it technically possible to create a Napster like software, at least for people with TV inputs on thier PC's?
The idea being that if you had a TV tuner on your PC, you would run the software to act as a server, for maybe 3-4 users. With a network of at least 2500 people running this software, you'd pretty much get wide coverage across the continent.
Well read media has almost always been owned and controlled by large corporations, where as Slashdot has been seen as a user managed discussion server, usually impartial to the debate of the day. But now, things might be changing. What this presents is a chance for once for a business to actually deliver an impartial news/discussion source.
Does anyone really give credibility to a CBS story on Viacom, or an ABC editorial about the practices of Disney? How about th good old days of NBC and GE?...Same problem here, maybe.
This could be make or break time for Slashdot. Your typical Slashdotter is of the cynical breed, not likely to be gullible to ingest the soothing words of your average CEO that "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
So here's the message.....
VA Linux, you are the new kid on the block. Fine, you are the biggest kid with a lot of resources behind you. Be careful, we are watching, and we ARE smarter than your average person.
A lot of you might have missed one LARGE point...the damn thing has a DVD player included!
Which means Sony can market this thing many different ways. It's a DVD player! It's a game console! It's a much simpler web browsing tool! And it all costs about the same as a high end DVD player!
Since Sony was one of the largest sellers of VCR's in the past, what makes you think that they won't grab (or are already) a large chunk of the DVD player market?
"Gee honey, after spending all this money on our new fangled DVD player, do we have enough money for a new computer? What? You mean this darn fangled Sony machine is ALSO a computer? Hot damn!"
My aploligies to anyone who actually talks like this. Point is, your average run-of-the-mill citizen who doesn't feel like spending $1000+ for a computer alone, will eat this up!
It could be that the media have reported on Slashdot in this way (not for the first time) could possibly be for one of the following reasons:
1. Traditional media type folks consider Slashdot to be nothing more than a chat forum, consisting solely of Linux users and M$ bashers. The attitude then towards this site is therefore one of irrelevance and arrogance, and who cares if they get a few quotes from the obviously (at least to most of the rational minds here) wrong people.
2. The media giants recognize the potential of a Slashdot site. Imagine if we started to discuss social issues, or politics in greater frequency. Maybe Slashdot would split into local sites, using the model to discuss any news item relevant. Imagine when all you check is are a few sites for news during the day, and all of them are Slashdot! Slashot.org (the original) ny.slashdot.org, politics.slashdot.org....etc, I think you get the point, and so might they. The Slashdot model might be the future of news reporting. Not so much reporting the news, as discussing it.
Water cooler talks brought to an international level.
Now that a more detailed story has come out about the Columbine incident, and a great deal of the stories we thought were true are proven false, what is going to change? Nothing.
Christians will still use one of the students as a martyr, the media and special interest groups will still insist that music, fashion and the Internet have a profound influence on young adults, and the gun battle will go on unfettered.
I wish I had some statement that would sum this all up, but there are so many sides to this story, that I don't think we will ever understand them all. Which interestingly enough, seems to be the driving force behind the media coverage..."Will we ever know what REALLY happened?"
From the way he wrote the article, it almost looks like he was applying for a job with Slashdot!
Otherwise, he did bring up some interesting points: the people who are reading/. today, are very different from the type of readers a few months ago. Also, the fact that no one person is controlling the views and opinions posted seems to erk some of the editors of the other news sources.
Now my question is, are moderators on/. decided by posts alone? If so, the guy who's always "I posted first! Phhht" will be in quite a good position!
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Hey, didn't you already post this message on Freedom Fourm last week???
Someone who uses "janky" and misspells the word "said" should not be talking about people's grammar.
How many people thought the world was flat a few years (a few compared to Earth age) ago, because religion didn't "say" that the earth was round.
Religion has been trying to stop progress in every way possible since it's conception, so why should now be any different?
Face it, there is more proof that the earth and the creatures living on it have been here evolving for billions of years, than can be disputed by religion. Even the Pope of the Catholic church believes it!
But for all you good Creationists out there......no one is saying that God did "not" have any part in evolution. Did you think of that?
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this in a previous post (actually, someone did talk about the current value of gold and platinum on UO), but with the purchase a virtual real estate and virtual goods with real world money, what it the "real value of money" today?
In today's world, we can see that the actual value of currency is not gold anymore, but what you can purchase. If you can trade currency for goods, and thanks to ebay, trade virtual goods for currency, would you not be able to trade goods for virtual currency?
I have never played Ultima Online myself, but the concept seems simple enough. Property and characters have value in the game, and are only available in limited numbers. People use the virtual cash in the game to purchase goods and property.
Does anyone see the possibility of using UO game cash to purchase real goods? (Like on Ebay or some barter site?)
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this in a previous post (actually, someone did talk about the current value of gold and platinum on UO), but with the purchase a virtual real estate and virtual goods with real world money, what it the "real value of money" today? In today's world, we can see that the actual value of currency is not gold anymore, but what you can purchase. If you can trade currency for goods, and thanks to ebay, trade virtual goods for currency, would you not be able to trade goods for virtual currency? I have never played Ultima Online myself, but the concept seems simple enough. Property and characters have value in the game, and are only available in limited numbers. People use the virtual cash in the game to purchase goods and property. Does anyone see the possibility of using UO game cash to purchase real goods? (Like on Ebay or some barter site?) No taxes, where would you declare them??
Population 1994 29,036.0 1995 29,353.9 1996 29,671.9 1997 30,004.0 1998 30,300.4 (in thousands) (Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, Matrices 6367- 6379.)
I could'nt find similar numbers for the US, if someone could find them, please post!!
And remember (having grown up in Canada myself) We watch the same shows, listen to the same music, wear the same fashions, go to the same concerts, see the same movies and live in the same types of towns and cities the Americans do.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out ANY Canadian news source for the lastest news, like the Natinoal Post, here's a clip:
ORLEANS, Ont. - A 15-year-old boy who was often teased by his peers went on a stabbing rampage in an Ottawa-area high school yesterday, an attack that came on the first anniversary of the fatal school shooting in Columbine, Colo.
The story has already been submitted to Slashdot, now we wait.
Let's not kid ourselves, even though /. and some media trashed Mosaic, it still is being used. We can assume that the same will be said for this program.
What would happen if in the first school applied, every student turned in every other student? Or, if 10 anonymous students or so reported on everyone...including themselves?
It would seem easier to screw the system using it's own rules, rather that trying to disprove it from the outside.
So if any students of one of the first schools is reading this message, please organize yourself and a few friends and talk about this idea. If you want to see what could happen, watch the episode in South Park where every one in town, sues.....everyone in town!
Seems like this would be the best forum to ask the question. Is it technically possible to create a Napster like software, at least for people with TV inputs on thier PC's?
The idea being that if you had a TV tuner on your PC, you would run the software to act as a server, for maybe 3-4 users. With a network of at least 2500 people running this software, you'd pretty much get wide coverage across the continent.
Illegal, most likely, but is it possible?
Well read media has almost always been owned and controlled by large corporations, where as Slashdot has been seen as a user managed discussion server, usually impartial to the debate of the day. But now, things might be changing. What this presents is a chance for once for a business to actually deliver an impartial news/discussion source.
...Same problem here, maybe.
Does anyone really give credibility to a CBS story on Viacom, or an ABC editorial about the practices of Disney? How about th good old days of NBC and GE?
This could be make or break time for Slashdot. Your typical Slashdotter is of the cynical breed, not likely to be gullible to ingest the soothing words of your average CEO that "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
So here's the message.....
VA Linux, you are the new kid on the block. Fine, you are the biggest kid with a lot of resources behind you. Be careful, we are watching, and we ARE smarter than your average person.
A lot of you might have missed one LARGE point...the damn thing has a DVD player included!
Which means Sony can market this thing many different ways. It's a DVD player! It's a game console! It's a much simpler web browsing tool! And it all costs about the same as a high end DVD player!
Since Sony was one of the largest sellers of VCR's in the past, what makes you think that they won't grab (or are already) a large chunk of the DVD player market?
"Gee honey, after spending all this money on our new fangled DVD player, do we have enough money for a new computer? What? You mean this darn fangled Sony machine is ALSO a computer? Hot damn!"
My aploligies to anyone who actually talks like this. Point is, your average run-of-the-mill citizen who doesn't feel like spending $1000+ for a computer alone, will eat this up!
Ok, answer this one....
If our universe had a beginning, and "God" is eternal....what took him so long to create the universe?
If you believe that at all.
It could be that the media have reported on Slashdot in this way (not for the first time) could possibly be for one of the following reasons:
1. Traditional media type folks consider Slashdot to be nothing more than a chat forum, consisting solely of Linux users and M$ bashers. The attitude then towards this site is therefore one of irrelevance and arrogance, and who cares if they get a few quotes from the obviously (at least to most of the rational minds here) wrong people.
2. The media giants recognize the potential of a Slashdot site. Imagine if we started to discuss social issues, or politics in greater frequency. Maybe Slashdot would split into local sites, using the model to discuss any news item relevant.
Imagine when all you check is are a few sites for news during the day, and all of them are Slashdot! Slashot.org (the original) ny.slashdot.org, politics.slashdot.org....etc,
I think you get the point, and so might they. The Slashdot model might be the future of news reporting. Not so much reporting the news, as discussing it.
Water cooler talks brought to an international level.
Prediction
Now that a more detailed story has come out about the Columbine incident, and a great deal of the stories we thought were true are proven false, what is going to change? Nothing.
Christians will still use one of the students as a martyr, the media and special interest groups will still insist that music, fashion and the Internet have a profound influence on young adults, and the gun battle will go on unfettered.
I wish I had some statement that would sum this all up, but there are so many sides to this story, that I don't think we will ever understand them all. Which interestingly enough, seems to be the driving force behind the media coverage..."Will we ever know what REALLY happened?"
Maybe we're not supposed to.
Whether /. users love or hate RedHat, I think we can all agree that we hope that everyone in the area gets out alive.
Usually I'm a cynical bastard, but hurricanes tend to humble me a little.
The crack stopped working a few minutes ago. Unless hotmail is /.'ed
Who wants to take bets that Jon is saying "Damn, why didn't I write that!?" ;-)
From the way he wrote the article, it almost looks like he was applying for a job with Slashdot!
/. today, are very different from the type of readers a few months ago. Also, the fact that no one person is controlling the views and opinions posted seems to erk some of the editors of the other news sources.
/. decided by posts alone? If so, the guy who's always "I posted first! Phhht" will be in quite a good position!
Otherwise, he did bring up some interesting points: the people who are reading
Now my question is, are moderators on
Hey, didn't you already post this message on Freedom Fourm last week???
Someone who uses "janky" and misspells the word "said" should not be talking about people's grammar.
How many people thought the world was flat a few years (a few compared to Earth age) ago, because religion didn't "say" that the earth was round.
Religion has been trying to stop progress in every way possible since it's conception, so why should now be any different?
Face it, there is more proof that the earth and the creatures living on it have been here evolving for billions of years, than can be disputed by religion. Even the Pope of the Catholic church believes it!
But for all you good Creationists out there......no one is saying that God did "not" have any part in evolution. Did you think of that?
Let the flaming begin!!!!
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this in a previous post (actually, someone did talk about the current value of gold and platinum on UO), but with the purchase a virtual real estate and virtual goods with real world money, what it the "real value of money" today?
In today's world, we can see that the actual value of currency is not gold anymore, but what you can purchase. If you can trade currency for goods, and thanks to ebay, trade virtual goods for currency, would you not be able to trade goods for virtual currency?
I have never played Ultima Online myself, but the concept seems simple enough. Property and characters have value in the game, and are only available in limited numbers. People use the virtual cash in the game to purchase goods and property.
Does anyone see the possibility of using UO game cash to purchase real goods? (Like on Ebay or some barter site?)
No taxes, where would you declare them??
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this in a previous post (actually, someone did talk about the current value of gold and platinum on UO), but with the purchase a virtual real estate and virtual goods with real world money, what it the "real value of money" today? In today's world, we can see that the actual value of currency is not gold anymore, but what you can purchase. If you can trade currency for goods, and thanks to ebay, trade virtual goods for currency, would you not be able to trade goods for virtual currency? I have never played Ultima Online myself, but the concept seems simple enough. Property and characters have value in the game, and are only available in limited numbers. People use the virtual cash in the game to purchase goods and property. Does anyone see the possibility of using UO game cash to purchase real goods? (Like on Ebay or some barter site?) No taxes, where would you declare them??
Canada: Homicides= == = ==
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
All methods 627 596 588 635 581
===============================================
Shooting 195 196 176 212 193
===============================================
Stabbing 191 154 183 195 168
(Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, Matrix 315)
Population
1994 29,036.0
1995 29,353.9
1996 29,671.9
1997 30,004.0
1998 30,300.4
(in thousands)
(Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, Matrices 6367- 6379.)
I could'nt find similar numbers for the US, if someone could find them, please post!!
And remember (having grown up in Canada myself)
We watch the same shows, listen to the same music, wear the same fashions, go to the same concerts, see the same movies and live in the same types of towns and cities the Americans do.