While I'm not comfortable with the idea of censorship, I wonder if segregating all the porn sites into one Top Level Domain (.sex,.xxx,.eros, whatever) would be enough so that those who want to can "filter" out all sex. domains.
This concept would be the cyberspace equivalent to a red light district in meatspace.
The hard part would be policing the conversion of www.mysexsite.com to www.mysexsite.sex. And who pays for this conversion...
I'm just wondering if there are any effective content filtering solutions out there that would really work at keeping out the porn but allowing "socially approved" versions of sexually related content (e.g. sexual dysfunction support groups, sexual health, etc.)
They aren't extracting the energy out of the mass for propulsion, only to maintain the sail.
The energy source is a star (Sol in this case), which puts out a hell of a lot of energy every second into the solar system. The 1kg per day is for keeping the sail large enough to capture the energy from the sun and use it for propulsion...
Actually, as soon as the grav assist was done, they could turn the bubble back on for a decel on the way back to Earth. If it took three months to get to their current speed to get to the planet they'll use for slingshot, they'll be back a their original starting speed + the speed they picked up from the slingshot. What they don't want is to try to deorbit at Earth with pre-slingshot speed + slingshot increase speed...
For every PC you'd have to run 2 runs of cat5, one for the C Station, and one for the network.
Granted, I guess since all/most of the PC chassis would be in one room the network runs would be shorter, but still, why complicate the cabling infrastructure?
Another radical solution may also be to start
creating self-sufficient Lunar and/or Mars colonies. Unfortunately, we as a society don't have the will to spend the kind of capital this would require...
What is your solution to putting food on every table, a roof over every head, heat in the winter, cool in the summer, a means to communicate with your relatives in the next state over, some creature comforts so we don't feel like slaves and still protect the environment?
I agree that the environment needs to be protected, but at what cost? Most environmentalists I've met or read have a REAL problem of pointing the finger but come up with no real viable solutions to the above questions...
Personally, I bought the first installment, because I like the concept of moving the middleman to the side (make the middleman more of an advertiser than a publisher...) and dealing pretty much directly to the author.
People, this is where the rubber meets the road! Whatever your position is on King is irrelevant. If you want micropayments, if you don't want the record companies and the publishing houses saying "see they are cheap, want-something-for-nothing theives" then grab the pdf and pay, otherwise we're just giving them ammunition. We have a real chance here to prove those neysayers wrong!
Dont Screw This Up! Long journeys start with a first step.
Where do anti-protons and anti-electrons fit in? (BKA antimatter)
Does antimatter have negative mass?
What happens to all the energy that is released in a matter-antimatter collision? Since mass cannot just appear out of nowhere, (1st Law of Thermodynamics?) and can only be converted from energy or energy to matter, wouldn't it stand to reason that since the matter got converted to energy, that the anti-matter got converted to anti-energy?
The weird thing is is that if there is no such thing as anti-energy, what happened to the antimatter? Did it stay as antimatter? This would lead to a catastrophic problem. If a matter -antimatter collision resulted in a conversion of matter to energy and preservation of antimatter, then eventually all matter in the universe would collide with anti-matter and leave the universe as a huge field of energy. However, if the collision DOES convert the antimatter to anti-energy, wouldn't these (energy and anti-energy) cancel each other out (and thus we wouldn't see a large amount of energy released)?
All those people who are whining should take a trip to a 2nd or 3rd world country and see how the rest of the world lives!
I never really appreciated my standard of living until I travelled to many Carribean islands and saw a level of poverty that makes our poor look like our middle class in comparison.
You want to bitch about your stress, go live in poverty in a 3rd world country for a year and then come back and tell me about the stress you live with now...
I guarantee you won't be able to find anything to bitch about!
Am I correct that the NSA is part of the Executive branch of the government?
I wonder if Congress doesn't have some sort of check or balance to reign in the NSA.
My biggest concern is that these intelligence community agencies are getting more and more power. I fear that eventually if nothing is done to curb the NSA's power, we're going to wonder how nice the Russians had it under the KGB!
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the NSA is as powerful or as ruthless as the KGB was WRT th the general citizenry, it's the slow erosion of rights over time I'm concerned with.
There was nothing stopping them from putting this account onto a completely separate network with a smaller bandwidth (and thus fewer customers sharing the same bandwidth) and leave the majority of their customers on another (unaffected by DOS) network. It was just easier for them to pull the plug than to go to the trouble of moving some machines or accounts around to protect their main cashflow. Maybe this concept is another form of Separate but Equal (and I hope it's not...), but this problem could have been solved in such a way as to keep the account up and protect the ISP's cashflow.
Miscommunication and Rudeness? I agree for the most part.. But how else do we overcome miscommunication and rudeness? It is to communicate more not less. Most of the rudeness comes from people hiding behind one or more levels of nicks. IMHO this anonymous nature of a lot of net communication fosters a sense of not being responsible for what we say. If no one can track down what you say and hold you responsible for it, then you can be as rude as you want. I have to wonder if the level of rudeness would be the same if the communication was done face to face.
Another thing. All these environmental problems and the market is flat? Please... If anything the grains markets and the softs markets (cocoa, sugar, etc) should be volitile enough to make some money. Consider this, constant to slightly depressed demand, with a varying supply worldwide. Of course environmentally based markets would vary... And if you take the Algae which put off hydrogen story from a few days back, couple it with continuing advancement in fuel-cell development and carbo loaded Sugar Cane plantations could become tomorrow's version of today's OPEC Oil producers further enhancing demand for sugar. Interesting piece overall...
Isn't it interesting that all these flamers hide behind their AnonCoward sig. If they're really that concerned about society, why are they hiding behind their anonymity? Also, I just love how people will just believe anything they read without excercising their grey matter. DeCSS isn't about pirating DVD, it's about having the ability to play DVD titles on one's Linux boxen. Why should we be treated as second class computing citizens just because we don't bow down and worship before the Micro$oft gods.
As much as I like what Forbes stands for, I think most middle and working classers won't vote for him because of a general distrust of the rich in these segments. It's a shame. I definitely think you are right that it's much less likely that this man can be bought out by special interest...
Katz, Generally I enjoy reading your pieces, but I'm growing tired of your constant barrage of attacks on those who follow a form of organized religion. You speak of how many millions of people have been killed in the name of organized religion, yet I cannot believe that you haven't heard of the Nazi purges of the Jews, Stalin's purge of millions of Russians, the purge of millions of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge and countless other mass killings by other non-religious groups just to stregthen a given organization's power base. Why don't you keep your religious stands at the door and report on what is pertinent to society, instead of showing your intellectual hypocrisy?
One thing that I think that hasn't been brought forward is the paranoia that SETI must maintain. Think about it.. These scientists have been the butt of jokes about listening for little green men for years. They've had most of the radio astronomy community bitching at them for using up scope time on a "useless" pursuit. So if or when they get conclusive "proof" of ET Intelligence do you think they want to be in a position where they have to explain how they can be explicitly sure of their findings in the light of having 1000's of non-scientists and non-mathematians programming the code which "detected" their results? Granted, they could verify the packet(s) through a set of slower non-GPLed clients, but these guys are already behind the gun on the nature of their line of research. Give these guys a break! This is just one of those 5% cases where Open Source doesn't fit.
Hows this for a solution... Instead of these warm and fuzzy non-solutions, why don't we as a society DEMAND that the law-enforcement enforce existing firearm laws on the books. As I understand there were at least 6-12 firearms laws broken and never enforced much less prosecuted in the Columbine shootings. If the law enforcement went after these firearm violations and tried to dry up the black market gun industry, the country would be a better place. I personally am a gun owner and am sick of all this call for new gun control laws and privacy invading laws. This Mosaic2000 is nothing more than same old non-solutions. Project Exile has drastically reduced the number of gun related crimes, and gotten a huge number of black market guns off the streets in Richmond. This initiative has been so successful that as I understand it's being rolled out statewide in Virginia.
You do realize that a phone call doesn't take any more than 64Kbps in bandwidth and in many cases only takes 56Kbps (Robbed-bit T1 configuration) So what difference is a phone call than a FTP download utilizing the full bandwidth 56K modem? Is your rationale that those with Cable modems and ISDN connections shouldn't FTP files because they are using more than 56Kbps of bandwidth? I think not.. Not to mention it's the provider who is hit with huge streaming costs (via high local bandwidth costs) not the user. Are you more concerned that this "causes" the Internet to die of a thousand cuts? This smells of the phone company bitching about there being a difference between data and voice traffic. We all know the answer to that one..
It's a known fact that Saddam used Anthrax or some other biological agent to murder thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq. Also, the inhabitants near Bikini Atoll have had to live with the after effects of our H bomb testing. If you think that people will never use science/tech for evil purposes, you're naive. Mankind is by nature self-seeking, and as such will generally use whatever he/she can to get ahead. If mankind were by nature altruistic and good, there'd be no war, no terrorism, no political strife and we wouldn't be having this discussion on the ethics and dangers of using genetic engineering on the pre-born.
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I can just see it now. This bill passes in Parliment. Some terrorist organization decides to do some digging and gets a list of every wired citizen in the UK. Said terrorist organization sends an email with a PGP encrypted text to each wired citizen and then throws away the key. Every wired citizen is then a criminal and must be prosecuted. If the police do their job and the courts to their job, every wired citizen in the UK goes to jail for a number of years, and a big sucking sound is heard where a large part of the UK's work force used to be... What a moronic piece of work... If the police and courts don't do their jobs, the UK government is seen as hypocritical or negligent for not enforcing the rule of law, which is the foundation of a civilization and nation.
Sorry to burst your bubble but HAL was supposed to be born in 1995 (or is that 92?) I just watched 2001 the other night. Anyway, he definitely learned to sing Daisy before 99.
And you don't have problems with Lucent doing the same thing? They're twice as big as Cisco and they recently aquired Ascend (as if a switch company couldn't make packet routers...)...
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While I'm not comfortable with the idea of censorship, I wonder if segregating all the porn sites into one Top Level Domain (.sex, .xxx, .eros, whatever) would be enough so that those who want to can "filter" out all sex. domains.
This concept would be the cyberspace equivalent to a red light district in meatspace.
The hard part would be policing the conversion of www.mysexsite.com to www.mysexsite.sex. And who pays for this conversion...
I'm just wondering if there are any effective content filtering solutions out there that would really work at keeping out the porn but allowing "socially approved" versions of sexually related content (e.g. sexual dysfunction support groups, sexual health, etc.)
They aren't extracting the energy out of the mass for propulsion, only to maintain the sail.
The energy source is a star (Sol in this case), which puts out a hell of a lot of energy every second into the solar system. The 1kg per day is for keeping the sail large enough to capture the energy from the sun and use it for propulsion...
Actually, as soon as the grav assist was done, they could turn the bubble back on for a decel on the way back to Earth. If it took three months to get to their current speed to get to the planet they'll use for slingshot, they'll be back a their original starting speed + the speed they picked up from the slingshot. What they don't want is to try to deorbit at Earth with pre-slingshot speed + slingshot increase speed...
Actually, TCO should go up not down..
For every PC you'd have to run 2 runs of cat5, one for the C Station, and one for the network.
Granted, I guess since all/most of the PC chassis would be in one room the network runs would be shorter, but still, why complicate the cabling infrastructure?
Another radical solution may also be to start creating self-sufficient Lunar and/or Mars colonies. Unfortunately, we as a society don't have the will to spend the kind of capital this would require...
Ok, it's easy to point fingers and complain
What is your solution to putting food on every table, a roof over every head, heat in the winter, cool in the summer, a means to communicate with your relatives in the next state over, some creature comforts so we don't feel like slaves and still protect the environment?
I agree that the environment needs to be protected, but at what cost? Most environmentalists I've met or read have a REAL problem of pointing the finger but come up with no real viable solutions to the above questions...
Personally, I bought the first installment, because I like the concept of moving the middleman to the side (make the middleman more of an advertiser than a publisher...) and dealing pretty much directly to the author.
People, this is where the rubber meets the road! Whatever your position is on King is irrelevant. If you want micropayments, if you don't want the record companies and the publishing houses saying "see they are cheap, want-something-for-nothing theives" then grab the pdf and pay, otherwise we're just giving them ammunition. We have a real chance here to prove those neysayers wrong!
Dont Screw This Up! Long journeys start with a first step.
Where do anti-protons and anti-electrons fit in? (BKA antimatter)
Does antimatter have negative mass?
What happens to all the energy that is released in a matter-antimatter collision? Since mass cannot just appear out of nowhere, (1st Law of Thermodynamics?) and can only be converted from energy or energy to matter, wouldn't it stand to reason that since the matter got converted to energy, that the anti-matter got converted to anti-energy?
The weird thing is is that if there is no such thing as anti-energy, what happened to the antimatter? Did it stay as antimatter? This would lead to a catastrophic problem. If a matter -antimatter collision resulted in a conversion of matter to energy and preservation of antimatter, then eventually all matter in the universe would collide with anti-matter and leave the universe as a huge field of energy. However, if the collision DOES convert the antimatter to anti-energy, wouldn't these (energy and anti-energy) cancel each other out (and thus we wouldn't see a large amount of energy released)?
AMEN!
All those people who are whining should take a trip to a 2nd or 3rd world country and see how the rest of the world lives!
I never really appreciated my standard of living until I travelled to many Carribean islands and saw a level of poverty that makes our poor look like our middle class in comparison.
You want to bitch about your stress, go live in poverty in a 3rd world country for a year and then come back and tell me about the stress you live with now...I guarantee you won't be able to find anything to bitch about!
Am I correct that the NSA is part of the Executive branch of the government?
I wonder if Congress doesn't have some sort of check or balance to reign in the NSA.
My biggest concern is that these intelligence community agencies are getting more and more power. I fear that eventually if nothing is done to curb the NSA's power, we're going to wonder how nice the Russians had it under the KGB!
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the NSA is as powerful or as ruthless as the KGB was WRT th the general citizenry, it's the slow erosion of rights over time I'm concerned with.
There was nothing stopping them from putting this account onto a completely separate network with a smaller bandwidth (and thus fewer customers sharing the same bandwidth) and leave the majority of their customers on another (unaffected by DOS) network. It was just easier for them to pull the plug than to go to the trouble of moving some machines or accounts around to protect their main cashflow. Maybe this concept is another form of Separate but Equal (and I hope it's not...), but this problem could have been solved in such a way as to keep the account up and protect the ISP's cashflow.
Miscommunication and Rudeness? I agree for the most part.. But how else do we overcome miscommunication and rudeness? It is to communicate more not less. Most of the rudeness comes from people hiding behind one or more levels of nicks. IMHO this anonymous nature of a lot of net communication fosters a sense of not being responsible for what we say. If no one can track down what you say and hold you responsible for it, then you can be as rude as you want. I have to wonder if the level of rudeness would be the same if the communication was done face to face.
Another thing. All these environmental problems and the market is flat? Please... If anything the grains markets and the softs markets (cocoa, sugar, etc) should be volitile enough to make some money. Consider this, constant to slightly depressed demand, with a varying supply worldwide. Of course environmentally based markets would vary... And if you take the Algae which put off hydrogen story from a few days back, couple it with continuing advancement in fuel-cell development and carbo loaded Sugar Cane plantations could become tomorrow's version of today's OPEC Oil producers further enhancing demand for sugar. Interesting piece overall...
Thanks a lot asshole! If I get fired for this, expect a call from a lawyer!
Isn't it interesting that all these flamers hide behind their AnonCoward sig. If they're really that concerned about society, why are they hiding behind their anonymity? Also, I just love how people will just believe anything they read without excercising their grey matter. DeCSS isn't about pirating DVD, it's about having the ability to play DVD titles on one's Linux boxen. Why should we be treated as second class computing citizens just because we don't bow down and worship before the Micro$oft gods.
As much as I like what Forbes stands for, I think most middle and working classers won't vote for him because of a general distrust of the rich in these segments. It's a shame. I definitely think you are right that it's much less likely that this man can be bought out by special interest...
Katz, Generally I enjoy reading your pieces, but I'm growing tired of your constant barrage of attacks on those who follow a form of organized religion. You speak of how many millions of people have been killed in the name of organized religion, yet I cannot believe that you haven't heard of the Nazi purges of the Jews, Stalin's purge of millions of Russians, the purge of millions of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge and countless other mass killings by other non-religious groups just to stregthen a given organization's power base. Why don't you keep your religious stands at the door and report on what is pertinent to society, instead of showing your intellectual hypocrisy?
One thing that I think that hasn't been brought forward is the paranoia that SETI must maintain. Think about it.. These scientists have been the butt of jokes about listening for little green men for years. They've had most of the radio astronomy community bitching at them for using up scope time on a "useless" pursuit. So if or when they get conclusive "proof" of ET Intelligence do you think they want to be in a position where they have to explain how they can be explicitly sure of their findings in the light of having 1000's of non-scientists and non-mathematians programming the code which "detected" their results? Granted, they could verify the packet(s) through a set of slower non-GPLed clients, but these guys are already behind the gun on the nature of their line of research. Give these guys a break! This is just one of those 5% cases where Open Source doesn't fit.
Hows this for a solution... Instead of these warm and fuzzy non-solutions, why don't we as a society DEMAND that the law-enforcement enforce existing firearm laws on the books. As I understand there were at least 6-12 firearms laws broken and never enforced much less prosecuted in the Columbine shootings. If the law enforcement went after these firearm violations and tried to dry up the black market gun industry, the country would be a better place. I personally am a gun owner and am sick of all this call for new gun control laws and privacy invading laws. This Mosaic2000 is nothing more than same old non-solutions. Project Exile has drastically reduced the number of gun related crimes, and gotten a huge number of black market guns off the streets in Richmond. This initiative has been so successful that as I understand it's being rolled out statewide in Virginia.
You do realize that a phone call doesn't take any more than 64Kbps in bandwidth and in many cases only takes 56Kbps (Robbed-bit T1 configuration) So what difference is a phone call than a FTP download utilizing the full bandwidth 56K modem? Is your rationale that those with Cable modems and ISDN connections shouldn't FTP files because they are using more than 56Kbps of bandwidth? I think not.. Not to mention it's the provider who is hit with huge streaming costs (via high local bandwidth costs) not the user. Are you more concerned that this "causes" the Internet to die of a thousand cuts? This smells of the phone company bitching about there being a difference between data and voice traffic. We all know the answer to that one..
It's a known fact that Saddam used Anthrax or some other biological agent to murder thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq. Also, the inhabitants near Bikini Atoll have had to live with the after effects of our H bomb testing. If you think that people will never use science/tech for evil purposes, you're naive. Mankind is by nature self-seeking, and as such will generally use whatever he/she can to get ahead. If mankind were by nature altruistic and good, there'd be no war, no terrorism, no political strife and we wouldn't be having this discussion on the ethics and dangers of using genetic engineering on the pre-born.
I can just see it now. This bill passes in Parliment. Some terrorist organization decides to do some digging and gets a list of every wired citizen in the UK. Said terrorist organization sends an email with a PGP encrypted text to each wired citizen and then throws away the key. Every wired citizen is then a criminal and must be prosecuted. If the police do their job and the courts to their job, every wired citizen in the UK goes to jail for a number of years, and a big sucking sound is heard where a large part of the UK's work force used to be... What a moronic piece of work... If the police and courts don't do their jobs, the UK government is seen as hypocritical or negligent for not enforcing the rule of law, which is the foundation of a civilization and nation.
Sorry to burst your bubble but HAL was supposed to be born in 1995 (or is that 92?) I just watched 2001 the other night. Anyway, he definitely learned to sing Daisy before 99.
And you don't have problems with Lucent doing the same thing? They're twice as big as Cisco and they recently aquired Ascend (as if a switch company couldn't make packet routers...)...