Okay. I've got several DVDs. I have no intention to pirate them, but I want to view them on my Linux box. In order to do that, I would have to use that "evil" DeCSS program (insert ominous music if you're a Media Nazi), and thus break the law. I'm not trying to steal the DVDs, just watch them on the platform of my choice.
Yep. 95 only had USB support via MS patches. And even then, most vendors still said that their USB products required Win98, and that 95 w/ the USB hack was unsupported.
Who's to say they have the directions to make a cd-rom drive. We lost the directions for making concrete for several centuries after Rome fell, what makes you think that we'll have the directions for making a cd-rom drive if our civ falls?
Minor correction, the US plane was a slow prop job, not a jet. Though the rest of your analysis seems to be fairly correct. The Chinese pilot acted with reckless endangerment and paid the price. Hopefully next time, the Chinese government will send a pilot who acts a little more rationally.
Disagreeing with you here, Mr. Hayes. I happen to be a card-carrying Libertarian, and I can see that this guy was merely an idiotic crapflooder who couldn't handle when FR said get out of here, you aren't wanted here. I have playful arguements with the liberals that are in my life, but when the fighting is over, we laugh about it. We don't let the hate and the passion get the better of our civility.
Personally, I feel that at the end of the day, most "liberals" want the same thing "conservatives" want, good food, good love, and good entertainment. It's just that the politics and the path we choose get in the way of the end.
Part of the reason for the large amount of sexual discussion online is the fact that discussing sex, sexuality, gender roles, etc, is the fact that although humans are naturally curious about the topics (hell, none of us would be here without sex), either through shame, illogic, etc, we don't talk about it. We have shows which discuss eating on the radio and TV, but a show that talks about nothing but sex would be considered a "vulgar" thing. The internet, on the other hand, changes that. Anonymity and pseudonymity give people a chance to as those questions that "decent" people would never ask, and also, an ability to role play, to see what's on the other side of the mirror. So, it's no real surprise that there is a proliferation of sex on the internet, people are curious about it, and they are able to ask questions without having a funny stare when they start asking for the latest hermaphrodite pr0n.
Yeah, it'll happen, but MIME encoding will create false positives much less often than a plaintext version of cyberlaw articles. Considering that cyberlaw contains a good deal of sex, it's changing a "sure thing" into an occasional annoyance.
Why not take the next logical step and simply encrypt the whole message using a public key system like PGP? The NYT encodes their newsletter with a "private" key, and the readers simply decode the message with the "public" key. All you have to do is make the key available on the website, and you no longer have to misspell words in order to get around the assortment of filters.
It's still 1 April for another ~4 hours slashdot time( I aught to get around to changing my clock, it being daylight savings time and all), so you're going to have to put up with the AFJs for a little while longer. Though if they post another AFJ, I'll just have to put up my manifesto promoting hermaphroditism.
In related news, I'm getting nervous. With all the other crap posted, I'm wondering if my screed on the advantages if we were to all become hermaphroditic felinoids would be posted today.
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What? We're now supposed to ditch sending packets and start sending messages via Automated Teller Machines (I guess it's worse, we could be sending messages by automated Penn machines)
Disclaimer: I am a card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party, so you'll probably want to take the following political screed with a grain of NaCl
You hit the nail on the head as to why the Republican (and the Democratic) party is losing a good number of members. I'm all for a much smaller government, but I'd hate to sell my soul to reach that goal (look at my sig if you doubt that).
However, the Democrats are just as guilty of the hypocricies you listed. The government, under the direction of former president Clinton, was paying movie studios to place anti-drug messages into movies/tv shows. Or that those same "compassionate" people were the ones who required placing censorship chips in nearly every TV sold in the US to fight against the "obscene".
The two largest parties have both sold out, and I'm proud to say that I won't vote for either of them until they stop being such hypocrites.
Did you bother clicking on the link I provided? Guns stop a lot more crimes than most people realize - you need to start getting your information on guns from more places than Handgun Control Inc. Personally, I don't have a gun. I live in a decent neighborhood, and additionally, I look almost as crazy as I sound, so miscreants leave me alone. That said, I know that there are people who don't live in as good of a neighborhood as I do, who need protection from the crack-crazed idiot down the street. I've read the anti-gun hysteria, and it would probably do you a world of good to look at the other side of the issue as well.
Read: get rid of the guns. I know that won't help the poor individuals who will take their own lives or come up with more inventive means of striking out, but it might slow things down. Seriously, what the f*ck does a person need a gun for anyway?
Hrmm...lemme think...a little thing called self defense maybe? I know you may not like to hear it, but guns prevent a lot more crimes than you may think. Not to mention the fact that target shooting is an enjoyable pastime for many people, or that there's that whole freedom issue. Or not to mention the favorite scapegoat of the anti-gun nuts, Columbine. People seem to be quick to forget that Kliebold and Harris had the propane tanks rigged to blow up; not having access to guns may have kept those kids from being shot, but probably would have caused many more to be killed when the tanks went off.
I just wish people would take more time to look at both sides of the issue than just irrationally shouting "Guns BAAAD" all the time
Well according to the well known port list, 340 is unassigned, let's use that. And I'm sure alternic could probably be a good starting point for stanards-based DNS2
That's fine for now, while we still have reasonable to remember 32bit IPv4 addys, but what happens when we move to that 128 bit monstrosity that is IPv6?
This patent looks like it's at the very least an ugly one (but then again, software patents aren't things that win beauty contests). So, why don't we let them have their bullshit patent and design DNS 2.0, which uses unicode throughout. Just throw it on a different port, and supercede RFC 1035. Since the whole patent hinges on this particular RFC, a new system that's not backwards compatible with the old one would not violate the patent.
It's just odd to see that they are using SCSI to do the interfacing. SCSI's a lot slower than the AGP port, and you are transfering several hundered times the data..;)
Thing is, SCSI is about as universal as you get. You can hook a SCSI device up to damn near anything, from an antique Apple Macintosh to the latest supercomputer from IBM. If you were to use AGP, OTOH, more limited as to what system you can use this on, so if you wanted to use this on your new 64-way, TeraFLOP mashing monster, you could just forget about it. Seems they want system indepenence, so they can hawk their wares without getting involved in any of the holy wars that pervade the computer industry.
This seems to be the direct descendant of that item. From this page you can see that they use one of TI's DSPs to run the unit. So it's probably a case of the proof of concept coming out, the engineer realizing the items killer app, and a product team brought in to finish what looks like a six month project. Well, those implementors probably discovered that they didn't have the hardware to sling voxels fast enough to get a system that was both non-sucky (real technical terminology here =) ), and not more money than the GDP of small third-world countries. So the ideas and chips sat idle, occasionally brought out as a plaything when someone decided to do a little spring cleaning. It's only now that we're able to see the technology in a fairly usable state; it was just too expensive before.
Of course, this is all just wild conjecture, shots in the dark. But it is probably close to the truth.
I think you may be onto something here. What about having an adCritic type site for banner ads? That way, people could show two things to the advertising people: 1) They do look at these ads, at least occasionally, and 2) Some of the ads piss people off. If the comments about some of the more lousy ads are seen, maybe the ads will get better.
You don't like moderation? Then turn it off. You can always chose to browse at -1 and read all the utter crap that goes on down there. In contrast to most of the major news services, you can chose exactly how you want to filter the content here. Hell, if you want, you could hack up a perl script in an afternoon so that you only read the goatse.cx and ascii art spams.
Besides, if we ever do get fascistic moderators who deny us the choice of reading the shit, we can go elsewhere. Voting with one's eyeballs and one's wallets are much more powerful than you think.
Although, you're wring about one important thing. Moderation does have teeth and does punish the irresponsible - you get moderated down far enough and you get banned for a day.
From my read through, I saw that they said that they have been able to drive the oLEDs at 50-60Hz so that one could watch TV/play high frame rate video games. In fact, that's one of the benefits touted in this technology, they're of a much better quality for real life uses than LCDs
And regarding your problem with monitors that are too big, you could always check your local computer surplus shop. I can bet you'll be able to find an old IBM 8512 monitor that's perfect for LAN parties; they're small (only 12"), light, and cheap. Only problem you may have is that they only do 640x480, so ymmv.
Hrmm...the millions of years of evolution that created human beings also caused species to become extinct. Think of the Neanderthal, Australopithicus, Smilodon, all of which once represented the pinnacle of evolution, and all of which became extinct. What makes you think humans are all that much different?
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Okay. I've got several DVDs. I have no intention to pirate them, but I want to view them on my Linux box. In order to do that, I would have to use that "evil" DeCSS program (insert ominous music if you're a Media Nazi), and thus break the law. I'm not trying to steal the DVDs, just watch them on the platform of my choice.
Yep. 95 only had USB support via MS patches. And even then, most vendors still said that their USB products required Win98, and that 95 w/ the USB hack was unsupported.
Different divisions. One builds offense, one builds defense. One side gets the advantage, one counters, lather, rinse, repeat.
Who's to say they have the directions to make a cd-rom drive. We lost the directions for making concrete for several centuries after Rome fell, what makes you think that we'll have the directions for making a cd-rom drive if our civ falls?
Minor correction, the US plane was a slow prop job, not a jet. Though the rest of your analysis seems to be fairly correct. The Chinese pilot acted with reckless endangerment and paid the price. Hopefully next time, the Chinese government will send a pilot who acts a little more rationally.
Personally, I feel that at the end of the day, most "liberals" want the same thing "conservatives" want, good food, good love, and good entertainment. It's just that the politics and the path we choose get in the way of the end.
Part of the reason for the large amount of sexual discussion online is the fact that discussing sex, sexuality, gender roles, etc, is the fact that although humans are naturally curious about the topics (hell, none of us would be here without sex), either through shame, illogic, etc, we don't talk about it. We have shows which discuss eating on the radio and TV, but a show that talks about nothing but sex would be considered a "vulgar" thing. The internet, on the other hand, changes that. Anonymity and pseudonymity give people a chance to as those questions that "decent" people would never ask, and also, an ability to role play, to see what's on the other side of the mirror. So, it's no real surprise that there is a proliferation of sex on the internet, people are curious about it, and they are able to ask questions without having a funny stare when they start asking for the latest hermaphrodite pr0n.
Yeah, it'll happen, but MIME encoding will create false positives much less often than a plaintext version of cyberlaw articles. Considering that cyberlaw contains a good deal of sex, it's changing a "sure thing" into an occasional annoyance.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Why not take the next logical step and simply encrypt the whole message using a public key system like PGP? The NYT encodes their newsletter with a "private" key, and the readers simply decode the message with the "public" key. All you have to do is make the key available on the website, and you no longer have to misspell words in order to get around the assortment of filters.
It's still 1 April for another ~4 hours slashdot time( I aught to get around to changing my clock, it being daylight savings time and all), so you're going to have to put up with the AFJs for a little while longer. Though if they post another AFJ, I'll just have to put up my manifesto promoting hermaphroditism.
In related news, I'm getting nervous. With all the other crap posted, I'm wondering if my screed on the advantages if we were to all become hermaphroditic felinoids would be posted today.
What? We're now supposed to ditch sending packets and start sending messages via Automated Teller Machines (I guess it's worse, we could be sending messages by automated Penn machines)
You hit the nail on the head as to why the Republican (and the Democratic) party is losing a good number of members. I'm all for a much smaller government, but I'd hate to sell my soul to reach that goal (look at my sig if you doubt that).
However, the Democrats are just as guilty of the hypocricies you listed. The government, under the direction of former president Clinton, was paying movie studios to place anti-drug messages into movies/tv shows. Or that those same "compassionate" people were the ones who required placing censorship chips in nearly every TV sold in the US to fight against the "obscene".
The two largest parties have both sold out, and I'm proud to say that I won't vote for either of them until they stop being such hypocrites.
Did you bother clicking on the link I provided? Guns stop a lot more crimes than most people realize - you need to start getting your information on guns from more places than Handgun Control Inc. Personally, I don't have a gun. I live in a decent neighborhood, and additionally, I look almost as crazy as I sound, so miscreants leave me alone. That said, I know that there are people who don't live in as good of a neighborhood as I do, who need protection from the crack-crazed idiot down the street. I've read the anti-gun hysteria, and it would probably do you a world of good to look at the other side of the issue as well.
I just wish people would take more time to look at both sides of the issue than just irrationally shouting "Guns BAAAD" all the time
Well according to the well known port list, 340 is unassigned, let's use that. And I'm sure alternic could probably be a good starting point for stanards-based DNS2
That's fine for now, while we still have reasonable to remember 32bit IPv4 addys, but what happens when we move to that 128 bit monstrosity that is IPv6?
This patent looks like it's at the very least an ugly one (but then again, software patents aren't things that win beauty contests). So, why don't we let them have their bullshit patent and design DNS 2.0, which uses unicode throughout. Just throw it on a different port, and supercede RFC 1035. Since the whole patent hinges on this particular RFC, a new system that's not backwards compatible with the old one would not violate the patent.
Thing is, SCSI is about as universal as you get. You can hook a SCSI device up to damn near anything, from an antique Apple Macintosh to the latest supercomputer from IBM. If you were to use AGP, OTOH, more limited as to what system you can use this on, so if you wanted to use this on your new 64-way, TeraFLOP mashing monster, you could just forget about it. Seems they want system indepenence, so they can hawk their wares without getting involved in any of the holy wars that pervade the computer industry.
Of course, this is all just wild conjecture, shots in the dark. But it is probably close to the truth.
I think you may be onto something here. What about having an adCritic type site for banner ads? That way, people could show two things to the advertising people: 1) They do look at these ads, at least occasionally, and 2) Some of the ads piss people off. If the comments about some of the more lousy ads are seen, maybe the ads will get better.
Besides, if we ever do get fascistic moderators who deny us the choice of reading the shit, we can go elsewhere. Voting with one's eyeballs and one's wallets are much more powerful than you think.
Although, you're wring about one important thing. Moderation does have teeth and does punish the irresponsible - you get moderated down far enough and you get banned for a day.
And regarding your problem with monitors that are too big, you could always check your local computer surplus shop. I can bet you'll be able to find an old IBM 8512 monitor that's perfect for LAN parties; they're small (only 12"), light, and cheap. Only problem you may have is that they only do 640x480, so ymmv.
Hrmm...the millions of years of evolution that created human beings also caused species to become extinct. Think of the Neanderthal, Australopithicus, Smilodon, all of which once represented the pinnacle of evolution, and all of which became extinct. What makes you think humans are all that much different?