Ok, we reached the end of the road and are flying without noticing yet that there is no more floor below us. What will be the first points of impact? Residential connectivity will go to nat or force the start of ipv6 there? And where? I think that in Latin America there will be available ipv4s for a lot more time than i.e. for Asia
Forgot the "Think of the children". Used to be not so bad, being in power or not, but last decade government got a blank check (Bush reelection) to do anything, no matter how ridiculous were their claims. After that, why stop?
Whats behind religiosity is probably something more broad and fundamental, like following leaders, belonging to groups, easy to be suggestionable and things like that. But religions are more culture than genes, they belong to the meme terrotory, and is of the bad ones. In any case, the movie Idiocracy explain it better, and probably the base explanation and causes are the same.
of a government supporting condemning innocent people to death for lobyist profits. And we are not talking this time about people of a far away country in the middle east, but eventually someone close to you.
The problem is when is not information, but opinion what goes in, that intentionally or not worsen the actual situation. Nobody dies for lack of internet access (ok, is not so absolute that), but a lot could if people (from outside or inside) somehow incitates a revolt. Won't be a very popular measure, but people should calm down before this ends in a bloodbath.
Which kind? Close ones? The old schoolmates that look totally different now? Some people that you only know thru internet, never saw in real life? The anonymous faces that some collect as "friends" just to make numbers? Any of the variations of the word used in the South Park episode about facebook?
The problem with facebook is that everyone of them are just friends, not a lot of deepness there, basically all in the same bag no matter what they are, And add to that that their identifying picture could be anything.
Probably will be far less troublesome to actually pick a decent password than remembering names of random friends.
Public education shouldnt be only for children, in a changing world educating adults into the new realities should be a priority too. In fact, that should be taken into account at the moment of educating children, there are chances that what they learnt as children becomes obsolete (or not as profitable/needed/etc) when they are growns up. Makes me remember the end of the song Gun Shy, where the Army was good making soldiers, but not so good at making men.
There is some tracking that can't be blocked, unless you use an anonymizer, proxy or something like that, like rough geographic location of the visitor based on IP address. And probably most of the interesting results come from that way.
Anyway, could be people that are interested in being tracked so getting ads targetting them. That was the bet of personalized ads in gmail, if you must have ads, better that have a chance of being interesting for you, and not be a waste of time, screen space and bandwidth.
Anyway, whats the alternative? That people install an ad blocker that won't display any ad, personalized or not? That would be worse for google than not tracking some maybe uninteresting visitor data.
Maybe people said the same about the 1st trilogy of Star Wars and the shitty 2 first sequels before the 3rd came out. Maybe, with a bit of hope, they fix the damage done in the sequels.
In the other hand, if they are considering 3D for it, or finally do a movie where 3D makes sense, or they just plan to leech a bit more money of the series knowing how much people paid to see quality films like Transformers 2.
- Keanu spoke about the need to encourage writers to continue to focus on working on new ideas and that a good script was worth its weight in gold. For example he said the Wachowski's had just sold the most expensive script in history to Warner Brothers. a modern futuristic take on the legend of "Robin Hood". Says he understands WB paid $5 million for the rights and that from what the wachowski's have told him, it will be an action movie that would have the same impact visually and technically that Terminator 2 had. Confirmed that Will Smith has agreed ti headline the picture.
Would be that how the Wachowsky brothers would write the Wikileaks movie?
pseudoscience pays better, The popular ones in US are against science, so still is being debated that we will have a second sun next year, tv shows teach that aliens invade us to extract our soul and that global warming is an evil lie to steal our money. Study science and the most you will get is to be misquoted out of context in the future to support someone's agenda, or being ridiculed in TV shows like Big Bang Theory. And add to that that thanks to indiscriminate patenting trying to do anything is walking in a minefield, and you could see no good future going in that direction. Generating market bubbles pay better and seem to have no risks for you.
The source is some sort of documentation, maybe not the best, but is there anyway for most of it (optional drivers like nvidia ones are most of the few exceptions). Better try saying "When Windows run out of undocumented features/APIs/bugs/etc" and you'll have enough till sun becomes nova.
Of course that they were wrong... all the methods their used to predict the future were pretty unreliable, else they would be here instead of us. In the other hand we have new, reliable tools to know that the end of the world will be in May 2. Civilization has definitely evolved, even if was a bit too late.
... for this guy. Software is increasingly detaching itself from the hardware is bundled into. Open enough operating systems, like Meego, or Android, are start to being installed in phones that had something else bundled, like Android on the N900 or some Windows phones, or Meego in the HTC HD2 or Samsung S. Would not be surprised if the same trend become for other open enough operating systems, like WebOS, Bada, or even future Symbian releases. Phone makers should focus in making the best hardware, bundle a reference system, but let users decide how to use it better, if it becomes more useful because what others do, they will sell more.
Democracy is essential to democracy, stop. But with high enough numbers of people don't matter if government controls the media or the "interest groups" control both media and government, in both cases the average public opinion will be whatever they say. Maybe the difference between media controlling government and capitalism is that the controlling ones want power in the first case, and all your money in the second, but in neither of them you are truly free, and im not so sure which is the worst.
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Ok, we reached the end of the road and are flying without noticing yet that there is no more floor below us. What will be the first points of impact? Residential connectivity will go to nat or force the start of ipv6 there? And where? I think that in Latin America there will be available ipv4s for a lot more time than i.e. for Asia
Forgot the "Think of the children". Used to be not so bad, being in power or not, but last decade government got a blank check (Bush reelection) to do anything, no matter how ridiculous were their claims. After that, why stop?
So you are defining a somewhat universal (ok,at least, global) constant as something that should be there, but isnt?
Whats behind religiosity is probably something more broad and fundamental, like following leaders, belonging to groups, easy to be suggestionable and things like that. But religions are more culture than genes, they belong to the meme terrotory, and is of the bad ones. In any case, the movie Idiocracy explain it better, and probably the base explanation and causes are the same.
Anonymous complaining about anonymity?
of a government supporting condemning innocent people to death for lobyist profits. And we are not talking this time about people of a far away country in the middle east, but eventually someone close to you.
The problem is when is not information, but opinion what goes in, that intentionally or not worsen the actual situation. Nobody dies for lack of internet access (ok, is not so absolute that), but a lot could if people (from outside or inside) somehow incitates a revolt. Won't be a very popular measure, but people should calm down before this ends in a bloodbath.
In soviet russia the country owned the banks. But now in capitalist world, banks own the countries. At some points the memes, or the world, got crazy.
Where no Lego has gone before.
Which kind? Close ones? The old schoolmates that look totally different now? Some people that you only know thru internet, never saw in real life? The anonymous faces that some collect as "friends" just to make numbers? Any of the variations of the word used in the South Park episode about facebook?
The problem with facebook is that everyone of them are just friends, not a lot of deepness there, basically all in the same bag no matter what they are, And add to that that their identifying picture could be anything.
Probably will be far less troublesome to actually pick a decent password than remembering names of random friends.
Public education shouldnt be only for children, in a changing world educating adults into the new realities should be a priority too. In fact, that should be taken into account at the moment of educating children, there are chances that what they learnt as children becomes obsolete (or not as profitable/needed/etc) when they are growns up. Makes me remember the end of the song Gun Shy, where the Army was good making soldiers, but not so good at making men.
At least in my N900 as not so trivial text seem to behave well...
OpenDNS=free, only you need to use their DNSs and inform your IP
The alternatives imply buying software, dedicate a pc to it, or configure proxies/firewalls
I'd bett that more use it for places like homes, schools or small business, and that could be more in absolute numbers than the alternative
I hope that xkcd is wrong this time. Would be nice to have most new mobile devices with that in 2 years.
There is some tracking that can't be blocked, unless you use an anonymizer, proxy or something like that, like rough geographic location of the visitor based on IP address. And probably most of the interesting results come from that way.
Anyway, could be people that are interested in being tracked so getting ads targetting them. That was the bet of personalized ads in gmail, if you must have ads, better that have a chance of being interesting for you, and not be a waste of time, screen space and bandwidth.
Anyway, whats the alternative? That people install an ad blocker that won't display any ad, personalized or not? That would be worse for google than not tracking some maybe uninteresting visitor data.
Maybe people said the same about the 1st trilogy of Star Wars and the shitty 2 first sequels before the 3rd came out. Maybe, with a bit of hope, they fix the damage done in the sequels.
In the other hand, if they are considering 3D for it, or finally do a movie where 3D makes sense, or they just plan to leech a bit more money of the series knowing how much people paid to see quality films like Transformers 2.
- Keanu spoke about the need to encourage writers to continue to focus on working on new ideas and that a good script was worth its weight in gold. For example he said the Wachowski's had just sold the most expensive script in history to Warner Brothers. a modern futuristic take on the legend of "Robin Hood". Says he understands WB paid $5 million for the rights and that from what the wachowski's have told him, it will be an action movie that would have the same impact visually and technically that Terminator 2 had. Confirmed that Will Smith has agreed ti headline the picture.
Would be that how the Wachowsky brothers would write the Wikileaks movie?
You mean, like the Facebook movie?
pseudoscience pays better, The popular ones in US are against science, so still is being debated that we will have a second sun next year, tv shows teach that aliens invade us to extract our soul and that global warming is an evil lie to steal our money. Study science and the most you will get is to be misquoted out of context in the future to support someone's agenda, or being ridiculed in TV shows like Big Bang Theory. And add to that that thanks to indiscriminate patenting trying to do anything is walking in a minefield, and you could see no good future going in that direction. Generating market bubbles pay better and seem to have no risks for you.
its the best way to get everyone blind.
Just will change semantics... once its installed in your pc, will take forever to load.
The source is some sort of documentation, maybe not the best, but is there anyway for most of it (optional drivers like nvidia ones are most of the few exceptions). Better try saying "When Windows run out of undocumented features/APIs/bugs/etc" and you'll have enough till sun becomes nova.
Of course that they were wrong... all the methods their used to predict the future were pretty unreliable, else they would be here instead of us. In the other hand we have new, reliable tools to know that the end of the world will be in May 2. Civilization has definitely evolved, even if was a bit too late.
... for this guy. Software is increasingly detaching itself from the hardware is bundled into. Open enough operating systems, like Meego, or Android, are start to being installed in phones that had something else bundled, like Android on the N900 or some Windows phones, or Meego in the HTC HD2 or Samsung S. Would not be surprised if the same trend become for other open enough operating systems, like WebOS, Bada, or even future Symbian releases. Phone makers should focus in making the best hardware, bundle a reference system, but let users decide how to use it better, if it becomes more useful because what others do, they will sell more.
Democracy is essential to democracy, stop. But with high enough numbers of people don't matter if government controls the media or the "interest groups" control both media and government, in both cases the average public opinion will be whatever they say. Maybe the difference between media controlling government and capitalism is that the controlling ones want power in the first case, and all your money in the second, but in neither of them you are truly free, and im not so sure which is the worst.