Hmm. That's a good point and should be moderated up, methinks. However, it still don't justify the Fed's involvement. First of all, the video portrayed the _army_ instigating the riot. What do the Feds care if there's libel about the army? I think the real issue has nothing to do with whatever precident the Feds thought justified their harassment of the artist and his ISP. Some guy probably saw the video, got pissed off, and decided to use his power to take it down. I seriously doubt he considered his legal precident in doing so, because, if he cared about First Amendment law, he never would have considered censoring it in the first place.
It seems to me that anybody who took US History in high school should understand the irony of the domain name "crowdedtheater.com" being censored. Even if this site was a "clear and present danger," which I doubt, the Feds needed to go through more official circles than just harassing the ISP. Been a while since I took J110, but here are the court cases that I believe established the "fire in a crowded theater" precident: Debs Vs. United States and Schenck Vs. United States. The government won both of these cases, but that was during WWI and it's a heck of a lot harder to prove clear and present danger during peacetime. There's no doubt that this was a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
Bzzt. No. Sorry. Please play again. The Constitution clearly states that government can't, in any official capacity, "prohibit" or "abridge" free speech. That means, no harassing an ISP into pulling a site. You're right that if the ISP decided, on it's own, to pull the site, that'd be fine, if not a little wussy.
Uh, I'm afraid you missed the point. This is a port of the _original_ Spacewar. Of course the Atari knock-off that came more than 13 years later is going to have more options. But who cares? There are a billion Spacewars clones. I used to play an online version back in the BBS days. The point is that the original is history. It literally jumpstarted the video game industry. Look here if you want to read about Spacewar's legacy.
You missed the point with java, too. Yes, it's bloated. But so is everything Windows and at least Java is secure.
Anyone who would insist that the best of the lot was "Next Generation" (once called "a talk show in space" by Spin) or "Voyager" (the Gilligan's Island" of "Trek") has been sipping too much Romulan ale. Wwwwwhat? Okay, we all know that Voyager sucks, but everybody of my generation was born and raised on ST:TNG. I remember having debates with my middle school home room teacher about TNG character development. I've had friends who are still glued to the screen watching "All Good Things" for the nth time. Nonononono, how the heck could you possibly blame TNG for killing Trek? TNG SAVED Trek. It opened up the Trek universe to... well, a new generation of viewers (baaad double entendre, baaaad)... It's a well known fact that both Shatner and Nemoy have at one time or another denounced the fandom of Trek ("I'm Not Spock", "Get A Life") and this journalist chooses them for his major sources? Why not talk to some of the newer casts? Oh yeah, because you're biased and want to interject your nostalgia into your story. That's what we in the business call bad journalism. Oh yeah, am I the only one who wanted to cheer when Kirk died (both times) in Generations? =)
Umm.. Is it just me or is The War In Heaven not the first time that Katz's implied religious zealots invaded the gaming industry? Doesn't Doom have religious overtones? I mean, you're fighting your way out of Hell.. gee, sounds familiar. Or how about Heretic? Or ANY roleplaying game with pagan elements? What about the old NES Kid Icarus? How about the dredel game? Let's face it, religion is a part of human life, whether or not you buy into it or not. Katz, you didn't state it outright, but it's clear that you have some serious prejudice against Christians. How is prejudice against a religious group any more logical than prejudice against a racial group.. or gasp.. prejudice against geeks? I'm not Christian, but this game sounds original and fun to play, even if it is a blatant publicity stunt from the makers of that stupid and uncreative Deer Hunter game.
For some reason, this story reminds me of a story from back in August about the the Internet Auditing Project. It seems to me that what they're doing (i.e. measuring the overall security of the net by probing individual boxes) is the only solution for this kind of DoS attack. Of course, if you wanted to take it one step further, you'd probe your neighbor's box, crack the insecure ones, then patch it for your neighbor. =)
Slashdot model great for tech, but that's about it
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The Slashdot Interval may not prove relevant for every story in every publication. On fast-breaking stories, for example, there really isn't time.
Darn tootin'!
Before I ever discovered Slashdot, I remember I had a timed essay in my Journalism 110 class about how new media will change traditional news values. The Internet won't change news values, I replied, it will destroy them. They will be replaced by reader values. Slashdot is a perfect example of readers being able to customize and interact with their news.
Unfortunitly, there's no way in heck that the Slashdot model will be the across-the-board solution to the degrading worth of today's journalism. First of all, there's the signal to noise ratio. I, personally, can't stomach those man-on-the-street interviews that TV news tries to pull off whenever something Lewinsky-sized heads their way. Open up the media to the public at large and you'll get 98% fluff.
Second of all, allowing a select group to preview a story like Jane's did is a violation of my personal ethics. This isn't the case for all journalists, but I was made cynical back in my high school days when our advisor allowed the student body president, who had been caught breaking and entering the school, to read and comment on a story concerning him.
Imagine if some starry eyed Online Journalist decided to run all his stories past a panel of experts before printing them. What if his story was about congress? Would he let all those dogs tear away at his story before the public was allowed viewing? Prior review is a nasty, nasty thing, and never again will I willfully give up any of my first amendment rights.
Besides, what's the difference between publishing a flawed story on Slashdot and publishing a flawed story in Jane's? You're still open to libel suits if you make false claims in your Slashdot post and say "dudes, I dunno if this is right or not, what do you think?"
So, yes, Slashdot is a great model for journalists to consider, but it is not the perfect model by any means. Slashdot is a haven for unobjective journalism. Do you think the New York Times could get away with the (sometimes) unsupported Microsoft bashing that we get away with? =)
Hmm.. Caffeine Good For Long-Term Memory ? That's funny, because according to the article: "The implications for long-term memory and learning are not yet clear." Interjecting your bias into a story like this might seem trivial and make for a good shrinking testical joke, but it's very bad journalism.
If there's so much evidence, why the heck didn't you cite one source in that entire piece of conjecture? Am I to believe that you did the research yourself that determined "IQ seems to be 80% genetic in most populations"? Come on, take a few seconds and back up your statements by using Google or an encyclopedia or something.
In the novel people weren't genetically engineered, but stunted with salt water solutions while being incubated before birth. This caused some to develop as "Stupid" -- to work in the lower class of jobs and be content with it.
It's been a while since I've read Brave New World but I believe you're mistaken. Yes, the Epsilon class was stunted in this manner, however, all of the classes were the result of forcing a single egg to divide lots of times, thus creating lots and lots of clones (same way identical twins are made). The good eggs were designated Alpha class and the bad eggs were sent to the lowly Epsilon class to do menial labor. Heck, here's a plot synopsis I found using Google that might clear up some other stuff: Whoa, it's on a server for the NYU _medical_ school, how creepy is that?
Could you see a Justice system run by AI's, or a political system where the politicians are incorruptable and always logical. Done right it could be a wonderful thing.
With the end of Moore's Law in sight and physical limits like the speed of light and such, computers surely will be incredibly intelligent someday, but I doubt they'll be smart enough to start a technological feedback loop. All the better, I'm sick of having to upgrade every other year. =) _duck_
That's the line IU administrators took in their more recent deal with Microsoft, and there was nary a whimper of protest--but there should have been.
As an Indiana U journalism/computer science major, I've got to add that there was protest here when the big Microsoft deal went down. Ol' Billy came to give a speech here shortly after that and there were protesters outside Assembly Hall and fliers denouncing the deal.
Here's the problem, though, joe average student doesn't care. Joe average student doesn't even know that OSes besides Microsoft Windows exist. When I need to print something, I always go to a Mac lab, because there's never a line. And forget about Linux, because right now the learning curve is way beyond most students.
Here's the good news: The people who care about Linux are the people who code, right? Every CS professor I've had at IU hates Microsoft as much as the next geek. Furthermore, most of my classes so far have been java based. Also, as far as I know, 90% of the servers here are unix-based. I think there's a few NT file servers. _shrug_ We get our email with Pine like everybody else.
The fact that students can get Microsoft software freely and easily on campus is a bit of a problem, though. When I first learned about Linux last year and searched around for a distro on CD, I couldn't find one. LUGs out there that are concerned with advocacy need to burn distros and advertise a quick and easy way to pick them up.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm. That's a good point and should be moderated up, methinks. However, it still don't justify the Fed's involvement. First of all, the video portrayed the _army_ instigating the riot. What do the Feds care if there's libel about the army? I think the real issue has nothing to do with whatever precident the Feds thought justified their harassment of the artist and his ISP. Some guy probably saw the video, got pissed off, and decided to use his power to take it down. I seriously doubt he considered his legal precident in doing so, because, if he cared about First Amendment law, he never would have considered censoring it in the first place.
Ugh, are we sure this is the original video? I just don't trust conspiracy theory sites.
It seems to me that anybody who took US History in high school should understand the irony of the domain name "crowdedtheater.com" being censored.
Even if this site was a "clear and present danger," which I doubt, the Feds needed to go through more official circles than just harassing the ISP.
Been a while since I took J110, but here are the court cases that I believe established the "fire in a crowded theater" precident: Debs Vs. United States and Schenck Vs. United States. The government won both of these cases, but that was during WWI and it's a heck of a lot harder to prove clear and present danger during peacetime. There's no doubt that this was a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
Bzzt. No. Sorry. Please play again. The Constitution clearly states that government can't, in any official capacity, "prohibit" or "abridge" free speech. That means, no harassing an ISP into pulling a site. You're right that if the ISP decided, on it's own, to pull the site, that'd be fine, if not a little wussy.
Hate to break it to you, but the overclocked 486 was in the second to last Quickie batch.
Uh, I'm afraid you missed the point. This is a port of the _original_ Spacewar. Of course the Atari knock-off that came more than 13 years later is going to have more options. But who cares? There are a billion Spacewars clones. I used to play an online version back in the BBS days. The point is that the original is history. It literally jumpstarted the video game industry. Look here if you want to read about Spacewar's legacy.
You missed the point with java, too. Yes, it's bloated. But so is everything Windows and at least Java is secure.What? And you expected a book written by a former supermodel to be enlightening?
Anyone who would insist that the best of the lot was "Next Generation" (once called "a talk show in space" by Spin) or "Voyager" (the Gilligan's Island" of "Trek") has been sipping too much Romulan ale. ... well, a new generation of viewers (baaad double entendre, baaaad) ... It's a well known fact that both Shatner and Nemoy have at one time or another denounced the fandom of Trek ("I'm Not Spock", "Get A Life") and this journalist chooses them for his major sources? Why not talk to some of the newer casts? Oh yeah, because you're biased and want to interject your nostalgia into your story. That's what we in the business call bad journalism. Oh yeah, am I the only one who wanted to cheer when Kirk died (both times) in Generations? =)
Wwwwwhat? Okay, we all know that Voyager sucks, but everybody of my generation was born and raised on ST:TNG. I remember having debates with my middle school home room teacher about TNG character development. I've had friends who are still glued to the screen watching "All Good Things" for the nth time. Nonononono, how the heck could you possibly blame TNG for killing Trek? TNG SAVED Trek. It opened up the Trek universe to
Umm.. Is it just me or is The War In Heaven not the first time that Katz's implied religious zealots invaded the gaming industry? Doesn't Doom have religious overtones? I mean, you're fighting your way out of Hell.. gee, sounds familiar. Or how about Heretic? Or ANY roleplaying game with pagan elements? What about the old NES Kid Icarus? How about the dredel game? Let's face it, religion is a part of human life, whether or not you buy into it or not. Katz, you didn't state it outright, but it's clear that you have some serious prejudice against Christians. How is prejudice against a religious group any more logical than prejudice against a racial group.. or gasp.. prejudice against geeks? I'm not Christian, but this game sounds original and fun to play, even if it is a blatant publicity stunt from the makers of that stupid and uncreative Deer Hunter game.
Who the heck needs really, really big prime numbers when you can Forum 2000 running on your box? =)
For some reason, this story reminds me of a story from back in August about the the Internet Auditing Project. It seems to me that what they're doing (i.e. measuring the overall security of the net by probing individual boxes) is the only solution for this kind of DoS attack. Of course, if you wanted to take it one step further, you'd probe your neighbor's box, crack the insecure ones, then patch it for your neighbor. =)
Darn tootin'!
Before I ever discovered Slashdot, I remember I had a timed essay in my Journalism 110 class about how new media will change traditional news values. The Internet won't change news values, I replied, it will destroy them. They will be replaced by reader values. Slashdot is a perfect example of readers being able to customize and interact with their news.
Unfortunitly, there's no way in heck that the Slashdot model will be the across-the-board solution to the degrading worth of today's journalism. First of all, there's the signal to noise ratio. I, personally, can't stomach those man-on-the-street interviews that TV news tries to pull off whenever something Lewinsky-sized heads their way. Open up the media to the public at large and you'll get 98% fluff.
Second of all, allowing a select group to preview a story like Jane's did is a violation of my personal ethics. This isn't the case for all journalists, but I was made cynical back in my high school days when our advisor allowed the student body president, who had been caught breaking and entering the school, to read and comment on a story concerning him.
Imagine if some starry eyed Online Journalist decided to run all his stories past a panel of experts before printing them. What if his story was about congress? Would he let all those dogs tear away at his story before the public was allowed viewing? Prior review is a nasty, nasty thing, and never again will I willfully give up any of my first amendment rights.
Besides, what's the difference between publishing a flawed story on Slashdot and publishing a flawed story in Jane's? You're still open to libel suits if you make false claims in your Slashdot post and say "dudes, I dunno if this is right or not, what do you think?"
So, yes, Slashdot is a great model for journalists to consider, but it is not the perfect model by any means. Slashdot is a haven for unobjective journalism. Do you think the New York Times could get away with the (sometimes) unsupported Microsoft bashing that we get away with? =)
Hmm.. Caffeine Good For Long-Term Memory ?
That's funny, because according to the article: "The implications for long-term memory and learning are not yet clear." Interjecting your bias into a story like this might seem trivial and make for a good shrinking testical joke, but it's very bad journalism.
If there's so much evidence, why the heck didn't you cite one source in that entire piece of conjecture? Am I to believe that you did the research yourself that determined "IQ seems to be 80% genetic in most populations"? Come on, take a few seconds and back up your statements by using Google or an encyclopedia or something.
In the novel people weren't genetically engineered, but stunted with salt water solutions while being incubated before birth. This caused some to develop as "Stupid" -- to work in the lower class of jobs and be content with it.
It's been a while since I've read Brave New World but I believe you're mistaken. Yes, the Epsilon class was stunted in this manner, however, all of the classes were the result of forcing a single egg to divide lots of times, thus creating lots and lots of clones (same way identical twins are made). The good eggs were designated Alpha class and the bad eggs were sent to the lowly Epsilon class to do menial labor. Heck, here's a plot synopsis I found using Google that might clear up some other stuff: Whoa, it's on a server for the NYU _medical_ school, how creepy is that?
If I do recall, the society that did that ended up dying from a horrible epidemic because they got rid of all their telephone sanitizers. =)
Could you see a Justice system run by AI's, or a political system where the politicians are incorruptable and always
logical. Done right it could be a wonderful thing.
Compassion != logic, tho.
With the end of Moore's Law in sight and physical limits like the speed of light and such, computers surely will be incredibly intelligent someday, but I doubt they'll be smart enough to start a technological feedback loop. All the better, I'm sick of having to upgrade every other year. =) _duck_
Remember that article from a few weeks ago that said geeks might suffer from mild autism?
We'd better kill them, too!
Seriously, if we can decide who can live and who can die, where will the line be drawn?
As an Indiana U journalism/computer science major, I've got to add that there was protest here when the big Microsoft deal went down. Ol' Billy came to give a speech here shortly after that and there were protesters outside Assembly Hall and fliers denouncing the deal.
Here's the problem, though, joe average student doesn't care. Joe average student doesn't even know that OSes besides Microsoft Windows exist. When I need to print something, I always go to a Mac lab, because there's never a line. And forget about Linux, because right now the learning curve is way beyond most students.
Here's the good news: The people who care about Linux are the people who code, right? Every CS professor I've had at IU hates Microsoft as much as the next geek. Furthermore, most of my classes so far have been java based. Also, as far as I know, 90% of the servers here are unix-based. I think there's a few NT file servers. _shrug_ We get our email with Pine like everybody else.
The fact that students can get Microsoft software freely and easily on campus is a bit of a problem, though. When I first learned about Linux last year and searched around for a distro on CD, I couldn't find one. LUGs out there that are concerned with advocacy need to burn distros and advertise a quick and easy way to pick them up.
'nuff said.