I think it would make it wholly more entertaining if they printed out move-lists and provided a viewer which reproduced the moves, say one or two a second.
It'd make the games more interesting to those of us who actually play (and don't just code chess), and it would get the public involved (can you picture a CNN short on this without having any sort of visual representation - it's the only way it'll get coverage!)
You know, I hate to give him credit for anything, but Xenos over at Dreammachineonline.com made a rather interesting point about Anarchy Online. The graphics were amazing, but he said "Because you couldn't see player names or know who was standing around you, there was no community."
Even if you COULD see little pixel figures of people, the games would ultimately fail because the community would be nil - and this is what matters in the online gaming world. As people what they play MMORPGs for, most people say Friends or Other Players.
It's harsh to admit, but really, there isn't much chance in anyone playing a game where a) the graphics are terrible, b) the connection is slow, and c) the community doesn't exist, simply because you can't talk/type fast enough on those things, and you can't see the words/phrases/playernames anyway.
You will never seen a Microsoft or AOL exec talking about how cool the their companies or products are, only how useful and easy to use. They don't really care how much heavy breathing they generate in the media or among excitable teenagers and college students.
When's the last time Mr. Katz watched TV and saw an AOL commercial? The blinking lights, teenagers shouting, "Wow, Cool, Instant Messenging!" and other things like that.
Sorry, Katz, the shift is definately towards the younger, hip audience, especially for AOL. Microsoft? Maybe not, but there's still focus on the gaming industry there as well. Not sure what the point of this rant was.
There are people born like this, actually...
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They die at a very young age, it's an extremely serious disorder. If you don't feel pain, when your skeleton or muscles are in a position where they are enduring pressure or other outside forces, being damaged, or otherwise, you don't adjust the problem. Therefore, the people have horrible defects caused by this - imagine sleeping completely crooked for thirty days in a row.
Also, it's likely for them to die as young children, in all seriousness, especially in today's society, where clothes cover most of the body (and hide potential injuries) and the child will not scream in pain.
From Lindows.com Lindows.com may disclose personal information to third parties we engage to provide services that involve data processing on our behalf. Also, if some or all of the assets of Lindows.com are sold to a third party, such third party will be entitled to use the personal information disclosed by users of this Web Site, but only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement.
Now, someone explain. Does Microsoft help them with data processing? No. Have any assets of Lindows.com been sold to a third party? No. Therefore, they're in breach of their Privacy Policy, which is clearly stated here.
They do cover themselves by saying this: "Lindows.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location." However, there's been no change to their privacy policy. Somebody made a boo-boo, it seems, because no amount of forcing should compel Lindows.com to break their own privacy contract with their customer/supporter.
Actually, reading it again, there's one place where the website COULD share your information: "We do not share your contact information with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency."
Then again, the Microsoft branch of our government probably didn't authorize this anyhow.:)
With the market like it is in the countries where people will be buying computers, the "footprint" system doesn't make up for in style what it drops in price. Currently, the people who are buying computers are either looking for power or affordability, not a suave appearance.
You might say this isn't true, but the majority of computer users aren't "geeks". Since the computer isn't so widespread that it's in every room of the house - usually, there's one or two an "affluent" household - people can hide them away in offices which aren't going to be seen by your houseguests and the like, making the "style" thing unnecessary. Furthermore, the consumer has gotten so used to the grey-box case that it's still considered "in style".
That's not to say that someday in the future, the smaller, chic computer won't become more widespread. I think the problem is that the consumer isn't willing to spend more AND sacrifice power to do it, and currently, that's what they've got to do.
I'm really not sure how many active users Slashdot has, but if we all donated a few bucks, think we could bid for some big domain names?
I think it'd be interesting to see a bid from Slashdot on Microsoft.com, in 10 years it could be an open source page; directing users to the new Microsoft Home: www.geocities.com/microsoft.
We could also buy some other big ones, including AOL or Time. Just think of the amazing site traffic you'd get on whitehouse.gov, assuming Bush neglected everything important (like he always does) and forgot to tell someone to renew his Verisign lease.
Or maybe... just maybe... Anyone want to start a paypal to buy slashdot.org with me? If you still want to read the news, we'll provide a link to their new homepage, whichever company they decide to bid for.
I'm in college now, and I have to tell you, MTV will do amazing with this if they promote it the right way.
Most college-age guys and girls want nothing more than to write papers and play music on. Sure, it's an amazing waste of processing power, but that's all they want.
If it says Windows, the goons think "Word", and if it says MTV, the goons think "Music". Word and Music, that's the only reason they need the PC anyway.
The internet is a big factor, but people are slowly starting to realize that the internet is available anywhere with a connection, and isn't PC dependant at all. They're still shaky on the music and processing part, for some reason.
Oh well, I expect to see dozens of these in the dorm room next year.
I think you're all missing the point. This clearly has nothing to do with reverse domain name hijacking, rather, it has to do with the unicorn, one of the most prized mythical beasts on the planet.
save.unicorn.com is clearly an attempt to raise the beasts in captivity and poach them for their horns, said to be made of pure gold and diamonds.
And... wait... this story doesn't make any more sense than the real one. So I fail to see why anyone would even pay attention to the ridiculous threats made by this large evil parent company. Yikes...
The microsoft customers who followed that link in their email didn't neccessarily know what they were really doing when they clicked the vote button. Any one of us (I hope) could have realized - hey! This is a mass email and I'n helping Microsoft win a poll by being a tool in their ballot stuffing!
Here, people say, "Guys, I saw this Linux poll. I know you're all linux fans, had you seen it, you'd have voted for it too!"
Somehow, I doubt that all of these people on microsofts email list were people who even KNEW what Java was, just in case they decided to read the other possible choices. Yeesh.
Did Microsoft bother to write a script to do it, or did they just give everyone in the office building a salary increase based on how many times they clicked the mouse on the little button that day?:)
Mobilix sounds like a legit software organization, and "Asterix and Obelix" are cartoon-like characters in both comic strips and movies.
How could the consumer either a) confuse the labels or b) associate one with the other upon the slightest amount of information?
Mobilix isn't going to start selling Mobilix dolls or Mobilix action figures, neither are they going to be producing full length features - likewise, Asterix isn't going to suddenly claim Unix market share or Obelix become the biggest distro since Debian.
Seems like the most ludicrous attempt at legal action against an internet organization or company yet.
That's assuming that the net will become nearly 10 times as fast and be available to consumers that way in 10 years.
I don't really foresee this happening, do you? We've been more closely focusing, now, on making better ways of of delivering information - such as airport or wireless networking - than we have on improving its speeds drastically. In networking, that is.
The big dig is turning out to be an amazing disaster. The plan was great - reroute all traffic and city planning problems underground, with very little trouble for the commuter and a more beautiful city above ground. Its the largest public works project ever.
Unfortunately, because you're dealing with politicians and contracters, both of whom love to lie to get money, the city is losing a bunch of money and the project is in terrible debt. All because of that old problem: if you ask voters whether giving out ponies to everyone is a good idea, they say "yes!", without realizing that it'll actually cost the government money.
This sounds like a supreme waste of time. The sad part is, people wont agree with me.
Firstly, it's been directly stated by terrorists themselves (watch the video!) that transmissions to the lower-level parties involved which *contain instructions* usually don't occur until mere hours before the terrorist act. It isn't as if the terrorists know that they'll be bombing a specific target for months, they find out shortly before. This means that any flagged transmissions will have to be analyzed, which I guarrentee takes a longer amount of time than it does for some terrorist to prepare, ready himself, and carry out the final attack.
Secondly, these things are going to be spammed or encrypted into oblivion. See point one about time constraints, and then realize that India has a large population. If you scan every email for content and come up with 5 million emails per day that are flagged by the server, how long will it take to process that data? How long do they have?
Yikes. They'd have better luck issueing a statement like, "Mr. Terrorist? Please stop it. We'll give you penguin dolls."
If you ask me, this is a superb idea, as long as the fish can survive in the waters you release them.
Basically, this isn't harming anyone or anything. The fish have been manipulated once, and have very little advantage over other fish in the water. In fact, they probably have no advantage, being that they aren't conscious enough to realize that they're changing color in a certain amount of pollutant.
However, if we're releasing fish into waters they'll surely die just to see, visually, on their new color coded scales, that they'll die... I think that's wrong.
I disagree with the dude who said he was a fish breeder and that he doesn't understand how we evil humans can be altering nature to better suit us. He goes so far as to suggest genetic experiments on humans. Counterpoint: This is an operation useful to human society AND ecological wellbeing, as once the fish in the water can show us where the water is polluted, they can also show us where we need to direct cleaning and research.
Genetic Engineering is one of the most useful and dangerous sciences of our times. Everything with a purpose is dangerous - we just need to be careful.
How many geeks would it take them to monitor before they catalog a pattern: Either a) posting to/., or b) watching porn videos.
It just seems like a ridiculous counterpoint to say that "The FBI could watch you, any time they wanted!". Why would they WANT to watch you? Unless you were doing thing blantantly illegal, there isn't going to be some Massive FBI server that sorts through all the keystrokes of every windows98 user to find illegal, "hax0r" activity.
Why do you need defense against "Magic Lantern" if you're not doing anything illegal? That's like telling a cop that you refuse to give him access to your home to search it without a warrent. All you're doing is causing a bigger hassle for yourself. I guarrentee, the more the internet/open source community rebels against this one, the worse it becomes.
You know what? This whole thing isn't anything new. Novices have been writing for their own ego to crash thousands of systems, and these are highly trained FBI officials with both a government and a population behind them. If you're caught doing illegal stuff, you're going to be found.
Of course, there have to be safeguards against this type of thing. If someone got ahold of the way to get data from a "Magic-Lanterned" system, this whole thing would be back-orifice 2. Anyone with any sort of information on which computers had the client software or crack done could get information as well.
Because of this, I propose the FBI must be doing something to limit this type of ability. The software must have some way to check who's grabbing the data out of it. If you're going to defend your other internet users against this type of thing, I say that's the key. Find out how to use their own software and twist it into nothing more than a downloadable program on your local website.
It seems inane. Guys, live with it. It's FBI in your home, but then again, its better than terrorists in your mall. My only concern is that this whole thing is going to end up in the wrong place once the scares are over, and then we're all in for a trip.
I think the point of Broadband, or 56k, or any internet connection, is that there is no "killer app" to it. The point is information transfer, and FAST information transfer.
Take the car, for example. It didn't start on one huge service, like a Napster. It started because people needed transportation. The TV started because of entertainment value. The "killer app" idea isn't applicable, in my mind, to a broadband connection - instead, we have to look at it for what it was designed for - massive data transfer in a short amount of time.
All in all, the killer-app of broadband is data transfer, just like the killer-app of the car is transportation and the killer-app of the radio is listening to music. There isn't going to be one big thing. People are just going to get used to it.
I use an ATI TV card in my College Dorm room, and it works great. I shoot the cable into my monitor, and can play video games thruogh the connector it has. It can record as well.
The picture is pretty darn good, all things considering. I can send you some screen shots if you like, my email is ieshan@aol.com. No, I don't actually use AOL.
I suggest doing this. Firstly, you can get rid of your little tv in favor of a cable-tv-on-your-comp, and secondly, you'll have a place to plug in your consoles.
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I think it would make it wholly more entertaining if they printed out move-lists and provided a viewer which reproduced the moves, say one or two a second.
It'd make the games more interesting to those of us who actually play (and don't just code chess), and it would get the public involved (can you picture a CNN short on this without having any sort of visual representation - it's the only way it'll get coverage!)
You know, I hate to give him credit for anything, but Xenos over at Dreammachineonline.com made a rather interesting point about Anarchy Online. The graphics were amazing, but he said "Because you couldn't see player names or know who was standing around you, there was no community."
Even if you COULD see little pixel figures of people, the games would ultimately fail because the community would be nil - and this is what matters in the online gaming world. As people what they play MMORPGs for, most people say Friends or Other Players.
It's harsh to admit, but really, there isn't much chance in anyone playing a game where a) the graphics are terrible, b) the connection is slow, and c) the community doesn't exist, simply because you can't talk/type fast enough on those things, and you can't see the words/phrases/playernames anyway.
You will never seen a Microsoft or AOL exec talking about how cool the their companies or products are, only how useful and easy to use. They don't really care how much heavy breathing they generate in the media or among excitable teenagers and college students.
When's the last time Mr. Katz watched TV and saw an AOL commercial? The blinking lights, teenagers shouting, "Wow, Cool, Instant Messenging!" and other things like that.
Sorry, Katz, the shift is definately towards the younger, hip audience, especially for AOL. Microsoft? Maybe not, but there's still focus on the gaming industry there as well. Not sure what the point of this rant was.
They die at a very young age, it's an extremely serious disorder. If you don't feel pain, when your skeleton or muscles are in a position where they are enduring pressure or other outside forces, being damaged, or otherwise, you don't adjust the problem. Therefore, the people have horrible defects caused by this - imagine sleeping completely crooked for thirty days in a row.
Also, it's likely for them to die as young children, in all seriousness, especially in today's society, where clothes cover most of the body (and hide potential injuries) and the child will not scream in pain.
From Lindows.com
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Lindows.com may disclose personal information to third parties we engage to provide services that involve data processing on our behalf. Also, if some or all of the assets of Lindows.com are sold to a third party, such third party will be entitled to use the personal information disclosed by users of this Web Site, but only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement.
Now, someone explain. Does Microsoft help them with data processing? No. Have any assets of Lindows.com been sold to a third party? No. Therefore, they're in breach of their Privacy Policy, which is clearly stated here.
They do cover themselves by saying this: "Lindows.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location." However, there's been no change to their privacy policy. Somebody made a boo-boo, it seems, because no amount of forcing should compel Lindows.com to break their own privacy contract with their customer/supporter.
Actually, reading it again, there's one place where the website COULD share your information: "We do not share your contact information with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency."
Then again, the Microsoft branch of our government probably didn't authorize this anyhow.
With the market like it is in the countries where people will be buying computers, the "footprint" system doesn't make up for in style what it drops in price. Currently, the people who are buying computers are either looking for power or affordability, not a suave appearance.
You might say this isn't true, but the majority of computer users aren't "geeks". Since the computer isn't so widespread that it's in every room of the house - usually, there's one or two an "affluent" household - people can hide them away in offices which aren't going to be seen by your houseguests and the like, making the "style" thing unnecessary. Furthermore, the consumer has gotten so used to the grey-box case that it's still considered "in style".
That's not to say that someday in the future, the smaller, chic computer won't become more widespread. I think the problem is that the consumer isn't willing to spend more AND sacrifice power to do it, and currently, that's what they've got to do.
I'm really not sure how many active users Slashdot has, but if we all donated a few bucks, think we could bid for some big domain names?
I think it'd be interesting to see a bid from Slashdot on Microsoft.com, in 10 years it could be an open source page; directing users to the new Microsoft Home: www.geocities.com/microsoft.
We could also buy some other big ones, including AOL or Time. Just think of the amazing site traffic you'd get on whitehouse.gov, assuming Bush neglected everything important (like he always does) and forgot to tell someone to renew his Verisign lease.
Or maybe... just maybe... Anyone want to start a paypal to buy slashdot.org with me? If you still want to read the news, we'll provide a link to their new homepage, whichever company they decide to bid for.
I'm in college now, and I have to tell you, MTV will do amazing with this if they promote it the right way.
Most college-age guys and girls want nothing more than to write papers and play music on. Sure, it's an amazing waste of processing power, but that's all they want.
If it says Windows, the goons think "Word", and if it says MTV, the goons think "Music". Word and Music, that's the only reason they need the PC anyway.
The internet is a big factor, but people are slowly starting to realize that the internet is available anywhere with a connection, and isn't PC dependant at all. They're still shaky on the music and processing part, for some reason.
Oh well, I expect to see dozens of these in the dorm room next year.
If Symantec were to host a poll that asked:
.NET secure, after we found the first virus to infect the software:
;)
Is Microsoft
a) Yes
b) No
c) Hell No
Would a) be the most popular choice because of Microsoft Vote-Rigging and Ballot Stuffing?
I think you're all missing the point. This clearly has nothing to do with reverse domain name hijacking, rather, it has to do with the unicorn, one of the most prized mythical beasts on the planet.
save.unicorn.com is clearly an attempt to raise the beasts in captivity and poach them for their horns, said to be made of pure gold and diamonds.
And... wait... this story doesn't make any more sense than the real one. So I fail to see why anyone would even pay attention to the ridiculous threats made by this large evil parent company. Yikes...
It's a lot different. Tons different.
The microsoft customers who followed that link in their email didn't neccessarily know what they were really doing when they clicked the vote button. Any one of us (I hope) could have realized - hey! This is a mass email and I'n helping Microsoft win a poll by being a tool in their ballot stuffing!
Here, people say, "Guys, I saw this Linux poll. I know you're all linux fans, had you seen it, you'd have voted for it too!"
Somehow, I doubt that all of these people on microsofts email list were people who even KNEW what Java was, just in case they decided to read the other possible choices. Yeesh.
Nah, when 50 million people responded to that with "Neither", they'd wonder... so where did so many people who care about linux come from...
Did Microsoft bother to write a script to do it, or did they just give everyone in the office building a salary increase based on how many times they clicked the mouse on the little button that day? :)
Mobilix sounds like a legit software organization, and "Asterix and Obelix" are cartoon-like characters in both comic strips and movies.
How could the consumer either a) confuse the labels or b) associate one with the other upon the slightest amount of information?
Mobilix isn't going to start selling Mobilix dolls or Mobilix action figures, neither are they going to be producing full length features - likewise, Asterix isn't going to suddenly claim Unix market share or Obelix become the biggest distro since Debian.
Seems like the most ludicrous attempt at legal action against an internet organization or company yet.
Somebody go get SETI!
That's assuming that the net will become nearly 10 times as fast and be available to consumers that way in 10 years.
I don't really foresee this happening, do you? We've been more closely focusing, now, on making better ways of of delivering information - such as airport or wireless networking - than we have on improving its speeds drastically. In networking, that is.
The big dig is turning out to be an amazing disaster. The plan was great - reroute all traffic and city planning problems underground, with very little trouble for the commuter and a more beautiful city above ground. Its the largest public works project ever.
Unfortunately, because you're dealing with politicians and contracters, both of whom love to lie to get money, the city is losing a bunch of money and the project is in terrible debt. All because of that old problem: if you ask voters whether giving out ponies to everyone is a good idea, they say "yes!", without realizing that it'll actually cost the government money.
This sounds like a supreme waste of time. The sad part is, people wont agree with me.
Firstly, it's been directly stated by terrorists themselves (watch the video!) that transmissions to the lower-level parties involved which *contain instructions* usually don't occur until mere hours before the terrorist act. It isn't as if the terrorists know that they'll be bombing a specific target for months, they find out shortly before. This means that any flagged transmissions will have to be analyzed, which I guarrentee takes a longer amount of time than it does for some terrorist to prepare, ready himself, and carry out the final attack.
Secondly, these things are going to be spammed or encrypted into oblivion. See point one about time constraints, and then realize that India has a large population. If you scan every email for content and come up with 5 million emails per day that are flagged by the server, how long will it take to process that data? How long do they have?
Yikes. They'd have better luck issueing a statement like, "Mr. Terrorist? Please stop it. We'll give you penguin dolls."
If you ask me, this is a superb idea, as long as the fish can survive in the waters you release them.
Basically, this isn't harming anyone or anything. The fish have been manipulated once, and have very little advantage over other fish in the water. In fact, they probably have no advantage, being that they aren't conscious enough to realize that they're changing color in a certain amount of pollutant.
However, if we're releasing fish into waters they'll surely die just to see, visually, on their new color coded scales, that they'll die... I think that's wrong.
I disagree with the dude who said he was a fish breeder and that he doesn't understand how we evil humans can be altering nature to better suit us. He goes so far as to suggest genetic experiments on humans. Counterpoint: This is an operation useful to human society AND ecological wellbeing, as once the fish in the water can show us where the water is polluted, they can also show us where we need to direct cleaning and research.
Genetic Engineering is one of the most useful and dangerous sciences of our times. Everything with a purpose is dangerous - we just need to be careful.
My Highschool Social Life would have been much more elaborate had more people cared about Lord of the Rings.
Why would some guy at the FBI want to DO this?
/., or b) watching porn videos.
How many geeks would it take them to monitor before they catalog a pattern: Either a) posting to
It just seems like a ridiculous counterpoint to say that "The FBI could watch you, any time they wanted!". Why would they WANT to watch you? Unless you were doing thing blantantly illegal, there isn't going to be some Massive FBI server that sorts through all the keystrokes of every windows98 user to find illegal, "hax0r" activity.
Yeesh.
So, here's the deal.
:)
Why do you need defense against "Magic Lantern" if you're not doing anything illegal? That's like telling a cop that you refuse to give him access to your home to search it without a warrent. All you're doing is causing a bigger hassle for yourself. I guarrentee, the more the internet/open source community rebels against this one, the worse it becomes.
You know what? This whole thing isn't anything new. Novices have been writing for their own ego to crash thousands of systems, and these are highly trained FBI officials with both a government and a population behind them. If you're caught doing illegal stuff, you're going to be found.
Of course, there have to be safeguards against this type of thing. If someone got ahold of the way to get data from a "Magic-Lanterned" system, this whole thing would be back-orifice 2. Anyone with any sort of information on which computers had the client software or crack done could get information as well.
Because of this, I propose the FBI must be doing something to limit this type of ability. The software must have some way to check who's grabbing the data out of it. If you're going to defend your other internet users against this type of thing, I say that's the key. Find out how to use their own software and twist it into nothing more than a downloadable program on your local website.
It seems inane. Guys, live with it. It's FBI in your home, but then again, its better than terrorists in your mall. My only concern is that this whole thing is going to end up in the wrong place once the scares are over, and then we're all in for a trip.
Stop pirating now.
...and then scan them in and display them as a gif on www.yourispname.com.
Look, maybe I won't think you're the most technological person ever, but damn will I be impressed.
I think the point of Broadband, or 56k, or any internet connection, is that there is no "killer app" to it. The point is information transfer, and FAST information transfer.
Take the car, for example. It didn't start on one huge service, like a Napster. It started because people needed transportation. The TV started because of entertainment value. The "killer app" idea isn't applicable, in my mind, to a broadband connection - instead, we have to look at it for what it was designed for - massive data transfer in a short amount of time.
All in all, the killer-app of broadband is data transfer, just like the killer-app of the car is transportation and the killer-app of the radio is listening to music. There isn't going to be one big thing. People are just going to get used to it.
I use an ATI TV card in my College Dorm room, and it works great. I shoot the cable into my monitor, and can play video games thruogh the connector it has. It can record as well.
The picture is pretty darn good, all things considering. I can send you some screen shots if you like, my email is ieshan@aol.com. No, I don't actually use AOL.
I suggest doing this. Firstly, you can get rid of your little tv in favor of a cable-tv-on-your-comp, and secondly, you'll have a place to plug in your consoles.