Yep... in college I took Freshman Writing Seminar classes on "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (but most of the readings were really the on the medieval knights of the round table), and "Artificial Intelligence of the Matrix" (but really on the history of the strong / weak AI debate). Both courses pulled in plenty of... interesting... students.
Heh, I kinda had the opposite experience... my wife always wanted a very small laptop that would fit in her purse, so I bought her an eeepc901. Worked for her, since she was a hunt'n'peck typist, but it was too slow running OpenOffice. But she'd leave it next to the bed and eventually stepped on it and broke the screen. So a few months later for about the same price, I bought her a huge refurbished 17" Toshiba laptop. I have to carry it to the car every once in a while, but she's very happy with it.
Since then I've replaced the screen on the eeePC, and kinda inherited it. It's nice, especially after Google Chrome came out and made it acceptably responsive on heavy javascript pages. The kids love using it as a media player for long car trips, and I have it tethered to a bluetooth GPS and cellphone so it can show maps using TangoGPS. Looking forward to picking up a dual-core ION-based netbook sometime soon when I'm ready for an upgrade, but for now it's holding its own.
Do they have to? Let's go all inappropriate car analogy and say:
1. Someone else getting automated speeding camera tickets in your car = you get fined
2. Someone else driving aggressively / causing accidents in your car = you get fined, and your insurance premiums go up
3. Getting stopped/caught driving without a license = fine, why not?
Laugh, but remember that cell phones have a SIM card or some other subscriber account tied to your credit card or billing account, so we're practically halfway there already as far as the mobile internet goes;)
Just hope they never figure out that there might be revenue to be made from policing the internets:P
Meh, joking aside, there's plenty of technical measures that they could be doing (not that we'd necessarily want these people to do this kind of thing for us)...
* Plopping down firewalls at internet trunks, then using them to filter out spam and portscans. Propagate rules to shut down bot traffic at the edge routers.
* Sniffing / logging all traffic with snort / ntop (but more likely something big commercial and expensive) for, uh, forensic analysis
* Requiring some sort of RealID authenticated onramps, so net access can be traced back to a credit card or better yet an "internet license" associated with someone's passport or other unique government ID
* Encrypted key escrow so they can peek inside encrypted data and streams.
Scary stuff with lots of room for abuse, but really not any different than what a mildly competent corporate IT department already does.
Maybe on the internet2 for mobile phones (the next generation).... the question is whether the new system will be "pre-secured" by the corporate walled gardens, or if the government will finally finish "securing" and thus killing off the first gen internet just as the new one comes online;-P
Hey, that's cool... I think religion serves a very important role in community and society, and be a cherished part of a person's cultural background and upbringing.
I went to a Catholic international school when I was young, and they had an option for kids who didn't want to take the Christian or Buddhist classes to take a class on "Values". It would be kind of neat to have that sort of thing for my kids today. But of course the only thing I actually remember from that class is a picture of two girls sharing an ice cream cone and both are licking it provocatively from both sides at the same time.
Anyway, just a humorous observation I made to my wife after attending a bunch of different church wedding services. She was raised an atheist under the Soviet school system, and after listening to so many assertions from the pastor that "only through God can a man and a woman find happiness", this was the one answer that she was satisfied with:P
And yeah, you could fault promiscuous and unfaithful women for creating the conflicts that plague society, and monogamy is one solution for keeping things in order. But it would also be neat if some of us could evolve to the point where people wouldn't get so jealous of others, or treat women like property or livestock (as can still be the case in parts of the world), and demystify sexuality so we can get on to more intellectual pursuits. But yeah, we're not there yet.
Well, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek (rimjob! I mean rimshot! Thanks, Freud). But I'd like to think I could give you guys more credit for being able to draw the connection between pornographic filtering and religious law in a Sharia state, whilst also drawing parallels to similar efforts in our own great puritan country.
I doubt the firewall is there to block access to porn. What they really want is enforcement (harsh).
Without the firewall, you might get away with the excuse that you happened upon the site by mistake, or via those corrupt western popup blockers.
If you go through the trouble of setting up a proxy or some other means of circumvention, then they could probably use that information to show your willful intent to kill kittens or something.
Having been to a few church weddings recently, it's apparent from the talk that marriage is just a way for religion to maintain control over something. And what better way than to control people than through the nookie supply? You get your nookie assigned to you through church or not at all. So it sort of stands to reason than religious groups are against prostitution or promiscuity or even just loose women... it pretty much cuts into their turf.
Ah yes, the law of the jungle. I hear they still use that in some places over in Africa. It sounds like it could lead to an awesome society if it didn't succeed in tearing itself apart from the inside first. You'd probably do great in it!
That's kinda old, the html version linked to on my homepage has more information. Not really sure why resumes are all that confident, unless you need or SSN or something on it, or have to lie on it for some reason.
I think the most sensitive stuff Google has on me from StumbleUpon is that I like fake redheads. But still disappointed that they haven't gone ahead and sent a free sample of Henna to my wife yet.
Well, it'll end up like Saudi Arabia and India... the government is just going to have to get full access to all of Google's and everyone else's information. That way, they can, uh, stay wary of whether anyone is collecting too much!
But personally, I'm more worried about the nosy old lady with binoculars across the street than Google (or hackers that happen to break into my Google account). On the other hand, I'm fairly careful/cognizant about what information I make available about myself in the first place.
Meh, privacy is a red herring. As he says, nothing you do will remain private. More information leads to more transparency... there's not really any escaping it, whether that information is collected by computers or mailmen or word-of-mouth. The trick is just to have the transparency work both ways.
Yes, affirmative action is a racist policy since it takes skin color into consideration. But it's probably necessary to build the kind of world that we'd all want to live in. If you went by test scores alone, you'd end up with one group in power... the one that wrote the test sensitive to their cultural background and upbringing (remember when the SATs tested for a lot of farm and agricultural lingo?).
So in theory, affirmative action is racist in order to balance out the population of the workforce, so that the diversity of doctors, lawyers, politicians, professors, accountants, government clerks, and yes, even the academics who write the tests, etc. actually sort of reflects the distribution offered by the local community.
Of course, that means letting in people with lower test scores and skills to meet quotas. But that's the price of trying to achieve fairness and equality, and kind of gives a lot of motivation to educate everyone as well as possible, because someday you may find yourself under the knife of a {insert racial group} surgeon (instead of street thug).
And yeah, we should feel sorry for holding them down. Perpetuating inequality is the sort of thing that wars and revolutions are started over.
Were great for playing some of the driving games, as well as pong-like games and especially Clowns (the little seesaw you control on the bottom of the screen while two clowns bounce around on it and collect balloons in the air).
That's mostly what I miss... maybe I could throw together some similar game for my Logitech G25 wheel >:-D
I was telling my father about a Dr. Who episode one day and he asked which it was and I was, like, "must have been one of the newer ones because it was in color" and then I was all "oh, wait..."
Supposedly most of your memories and dreams are in b/w anyway, so what difference does it make?:-P
1) I had a really hard time believing the whole thing wasn't a joke...
2) But if those really are the turn of events, they only seem to support Assange's "dirty tricks" assertion. But as a slashdot reader, I'm not particularly familiar with the whole one-night-stand culture and social conventions. And apparently Assange isn't either?
3) But above all else -- if all I have to do is embarass the US military in order to get women like Anna Ardin (job title: "Forskningsassistent" ) to come play "dirty tricks" on me, WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!
-- I support public education: I married a teacher.
Cool... I just got my 3G Slide last week too! Just finally received a USB cable though, so haven't had time to jailbreak / update it yet.
A bit annoyed with T-Mobile, since they've been promising OTA updates to Android 2.x for their MyTouch phones "just next month" since I bought a MyTouch 3G for my wife in *March* 2010. If you follow the blogs, they're *still* saying that. Yeah it's a moving target and all, but it's really a lot like they're just saying whatever it takes to keep people buying their current stock:-P
But thankfully because of projects like CyanogenMOD, I don't really have to worry about the silly manufacturer and carrier sillyness. As long as the phone is supported by CM or the like, I won't be afraid to buy.
Now if only there were a decent set of Android PIM apps, so I wouldn't still have to carry around my Palm TX...:-P
There are plenty of people willing to work on bringing aviation into the information age, but it's a slow, costly process. Have to get the main stakeholders: the FAA, the commercial airliners, the pilots' unions, and the air traffic control unions to all agree on the way forward, and none of them particularly like to talk to each other. The systems we have now aren't particularly great, but they work and have enjoyed a decent safety and efficiency record... even though there's much room for improvement. But anyone trying to iron out the bugs in new software or systems will be blamed for not sticking with the "old reliable" and "certified" status quo.
The most progress could probably be made by experimental aircraft and private pilots, but there are a lot fewer around, since we haven't been training so many pilots for wars, and becoming a commercial airline pilot isn't as glamorous as it once was. Maybe in other countries with lower certification barriers, they could spearhead the use of ruggedized PDA tech and mesh network tech to accomplish a lot of cool stuff on the cheap.
Heh, there's some article (that I wish I could find, but my wife was telling me about it) which showed that prisons were SUCCESSES because they were much better for the local economy than schools. Teachers made meager county salaries and were spread fairly thin between the student population . However, if the kids managed to drop out and were eventually sent to prison, they'd create a whole lot of much better-paying state jobs for prison wardens and supply contractors.
So it was a pretty sweet deal for the local governments to cut back on education so they could score more penitentiary support jobs to take care of their growing prison population! A real no-brainer if you're myopic and just concerned about economic success.
I hate to admit that I was that lazy, but when it happened to me, I ended up just memorizing the key locations and operating it without the case entirely:P
It wasn't the signal speed that became a limiting factor above 3Ghz, but transistor power leakage current, which sort of goes "to hell in a handbasket" above 3Ghz.
Pretty spot-on... these days it's almost like it's more of a battle for mindshare than walletshare. So it isn't all too bad that advertising is becoming more of a form of entertainment than a mantra or jingle.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep... in college I took Freshman Writing Seminar classes on "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (but most of the readings were really the on the medieval knights of the round table), and "Artificial Intelligence of the Matrix" (but really on the history of the strong / weak AI debate). Both courses pulled in plenty of ... interesting ... students.
Need one on Trek :-/
Heh, I kinda had the opposite experience... my wife always wanted a very small laptop that would fit in her purse, so I bought her an eeepc901. Worked for her, since she was a hunt'n'peck typist, but it was too slow running OpenOffice. But she'd leave it next to the bed and eventually stepped on it and broke the screen. So a few months later for about the same price, I bought her a huge refurbished 17" Toshiba laptop. I have to carry it to the car every once in a while, but she's very happy with it.
Since then I've replaced the screen on the eeePC, and kinda inherited it. It's nice, especially after Google Chrome came out and made it acceptably responsive on heavy javascript pages. The kids love using it as a media player for long car trips, and I have it tethered to a bluetooth GPS and cellphone so it can show maps using TangoGPS. Looking forward to picking up a dual-core ION-based netbook sometime soon when I'm ready for an upgrade, but for now it's holding its own.
Well...
netbook = smaller laptop
tablet = larger smartphone
I already have a smartphone that's always with me. So really all I need is something to do the things that I can't do efficiently on my phone.
Just bought a touchscreen kit for my eeePC901, which was maybe the only additional convenience a tablet might have added.
Do they have to? Let's go all inappropriate car analogy and say:
1. Someone else getting automated speeding camera tickets in your car = you get fined
2. Someone else driving aggressively / causing accidents in your car = you get fined, and your insurance premiums go up
3. Getting stopped/caught driving without a license = fine, why not?
Laugh, but remember that cell phones have a SIM card or some other subscriber account tied to your credit card or billing account, so we're practically halfway there already as far as the mobile internet goes ;)
Just hope they never figure out that there might be revenue to be made from policing the internets :P
Meh, joking aside, there's plenty of technical measures that they could be doing (not that we'd necessarily want these people to do this kind of thing for us)...
* Plopping down firewalls at internet trunks, then using them to filter out spam and portscans. Propagate rules to shut down bot traffic at the edge routers.
* Sniffing / logging all traffic with snort / ntop (but more likely something big commercial and expensive) for, uh, forensic analysis
* Requiring some sort of RealID authenticated onramps, so net access can be traced back to a credit card or better yet an "internet license" associated with someone's passport or other unique government ID
* Encrypted key escrow so they can peek inside encrypted data and streams.
Scary stuff with lots of room for abuse, but really not any different than what a mildly competent corporate IT department already does.
Maybe on the internet2 for mobile phones (the next generation).... the question is whether the new system will be "pre-secured" by the corporate walled gardens, or if the government will finally finish "securing" and thus killing off the first gen internet just as the new one comes online ;-P
Hey, that's cool... I think religion serves a very important role in community and society, and be a cherished part of a person's cultural background and upbringing.
I went to a Catholic international school when I was young, and they had an option for kids who didn't want to take the Christian or Buddhist classes to take a class on "Values". It would be kind of neat to have that sort of thing for my kids today. But of course the only thing I actually remember from that class is a picture of two girls sharing an ice cream cone and both are licking it provocatively from both sides at the same time.
Anyway, just a humorous observation I made to my wife after attending a bunch of different church wedding services. She was raised an atheist under the Soviet school system, and after listening to so many assertions from the pastor that "only through God can a man and a woman find happiness", this was the one answer that she was satisfied with :P
And yeah, you could fault promiscuous and unfaithful women for creating the conflicts that plague society, and monogamy is one solution for keeping things in order. But it would also be neat if some of us could evolve to the point where people wouldn't get so jealous of others, or treat women like property or livestock (as can still be the case in parts of the world), and demystify sexuality so we can get on to more intellectual pursuits. But yeah, we're not there yet.
Well, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek (rimjob! I mean rimshot! Thanks, Freud). But I'd like to think I could give you guys more credit for being able to draw the connection between pornographic filtering and religious law in a Sharia state, whilst also drawing parallels to similar efforts in our own great puritan country.
I doubt the firewall is there to block access to porn. What they really want is enforcement (harsh).
Without the firewall, you might get away with the excuse that you happened upon the site by mistake, or via those corrupt western popup blockers.
If you go through the trouble of setting up a proxy or some other means of circumvention, then they could probably use that information to show your willful intent to kill kittens or something.
Having been to a few church weddings recently, it's apparent from the talk that marriage is just a way for religion to maintain control over something. And what better way than to control people than through the nookie supply? You get your nookie assigned to you through church or not at all. So it sort of stands to reason than religious groups are against prostitution or promiscuity or even just loose women... it pretty much cuts into their turf.
Ah yes, the law of the jungle. I hear they still use that in some places over in Africa. It sounds like it could lead to an awesome society if it didn't succeed in tearing itself apart from the inside first. You'd probably do great in it!
That's kinda old, the html version linked to on my homepage has more information. Not really sure why resumes are all that confident, unless you need or SSN or something on it, or have to lie on it for some reason.
I think the most sensitive stuff Google has on me from StumbleUpon is that I like fake redheads. But still disappointed that they haven't gone ahead and sent a free sample of Henna to my wife yet.
It's the same. October 10, 2010 is 10/10/10 no matter which way you arrange it. Same for January 1, February 2, March 3, April 4, etc.
(we can has redundant thread of previous redundant thread?)
(do we get to whoosh the whooshers for whooshing obvious whooshbait?)
I prefer to refer to it as "passing the torch to the next generation"
*sits back and relaxes*
So, kids, run forth... and get off my lawn! (I just recently had it sprayed with volatile highly-combustible compounds)
Heh, +1 insightful.
Well, it'll end up like Saudi Arabia and India... the government is just going to have to get full access to all of Google's and everyone else's information. That way, they can, uh, stay wary of whether anyone is collecting too much!
But personally, I'm more worried about the nosy old lady with binoculars across the street than Google (or hackers that happen to break into my Google account). On the other hand, I'm fairly careful/cognizant about what information I make available about myself in the first place.
Meh, privacy is a red herring. As he says, nothing you do will remain private. More information leads to more transparency... there's not really any escaping it, whether that information is collected by computers or mailmen or word-of-mouth. The trick is just to have the transparency work both ways.
The real deal is the war for mindshare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html
Affirmative action, probably.
Yes, affirmative action is a racist policy since it takes skin color into consideration. But it's probably necessary to build the kind of world that we'd all want to live in. If you went by test scores alone, you'd end up with one group in power... the one that wrote the test sensitive to their cultural background and upbringing (remember when the SATs tested for a lot of farm and agricultural lingo?).
So in theory, affirmative action is racist in order to balance out the population of the workforce, so that the diversity of doctors, lawyers, politicians, professors, accountants, government clerks, and yes, even the academics who write the tests, etc. actually sort of reflects the distribution offered by the local community.
Of course, that means letting in people with lower test scores and skills to meet quotas. But that's the price of trying to achieve fairness and equality, and kind of gives a lot of motivation to educate everyone as well as possible, because someday you may find yourself under the knife of a {insert racial group} surgeon (instead of street thug).
And yeah, we should feel sorry for holding them down. Perpetuating inequality is the sort of thing that wars and revolutions are started over.
I actually sort of miss the paddle controllers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle_(game_controller)
Were great for playing some of the driving games, as well as pong-like games and especially Clowns (the little seesaw you control on the bottom of the screen while two clowns bounce around on it and collect balloons in the air).
That's mostly what I miss... maybe I could throw together some similar game for my Logitech G25 wheel >:-D
I still had a b/w set as late as 1994...
I was telling my father about a Dr. Who episode one day and he asked which it was and I was, like, "must have been one of the newer ones because it was in color" and then I was all "oh, wait..."
Supposedly most of your memories and dreams are in b/w anyway, so what difference does it make? :-P
Heh, I RTFA (how apt an acronym) and:
1) I had a really hard time believing the whole thing wasn't a joke...
2) But if those really are the turn of events, they only seem to support Assange's "dirty tricks" assertion. But as a slashdot reader, I'm not particularly familiar with the whole one-night-stand culture and social conventions. And apparently Assange isn't either?
3) But above all else -- if all I have to do is embarass the US military in order to get women like Anna Ardin (job title: "Forskningsassistent" ) to come play "dirty tricks" on me, WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!
--
I support public education: I married a teacher.
Cool... I just got my 3G Slide last week too! Just finally received a USB cable though, so haven't had time to jailbreak / update it yet.
A bit annoyed with T-Mobile, since they've been promising OTA updates to Android 2.x for their MyTouch phones "just next month" since I bought a MyTouch 3G for my wife in *March* 2010. If you follow the blogs, they're *still* saying that. Yeah it's a moving target and all, but it's really a lot like they're just saying whatever it takes to keep people buying their current stock :-P
But thankfully because of projects like CyanogenMOD, I don't really have to worry about the silly manufacturer and carrier sillyness. As long as the phone is supported by CM or the like, I won't be afraid to buy.
Now if only there were a decent set of Android PIM apps, so I wouldn't still have to carry around my Palm TX ... :-P
Too early. The next story on whiskey made from urine was brewed specifically for you, though.
There are plenty of people willing to work on bringing aviation into the information age, but it's a slow, costly process. Have to get the main stakeholders: the FAA, the commercial airliners, the pilots' unions, and the air traffic control unions to all agree on the way forward, and none of them particularly like to talk to each other. The systems we have now aren't particularly great, but they work and have enjoyed a decent safety and efficiency record... even though there's much room for improvement. But anyone trying to iron out the bugs in new software or systems will be blamed for not sticking with the "old reliable" and "certified" status quo.
The most progress could probably be made by experimental aircraft and private pilots, but there are a lot fewer around, since we haven't been training so many pilots for wars, and becoming a commercial airline pilot isn't as glamorous as it once was. Maybe in other countries with lower certification barriers, they could spearhead the use of ruggedized PDA tech and mesh network tech to accomplish a lot of cool stuff on the cheap.
Heh, there's some article (that I wish I could find, but my wife was telling me about it) which showed that prisons were SUCCESSES because they were much better for the local economy than schools. Teachers made meager county salaries and were spread fairly thin between the student population . However, if the kids managed to drop out and were eventually sent to prison, they'd create a whole lot of much better-paying state jobs for prison wardens and supply contractors.
So it was a pretty sweet deal for the local governments to cut back on education so they could score more penitentiary support jobs to take care of their growing prison population! A real no-brainer if you're myopic and just concerned about economic success.
Awesome case mod, in that case.
I hate to admit that I was that lazy, but when it happened to me, I ended up just memorizing the key locations and operating it without the case entirely :P
It wasn't the signal speed that became a limiting factor above 3Ghz, but transistor power leakage current, which sort of goes "to hell in a handbasket" above 3Ghz.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2004/06/prescott.ars/2
But that sort of explains why Moore's law went all multi-core after Intel gave up trying to make 4Ghz CPUs that didn't leak power all out the wazoo.
Pretty spot-on... these days it's almost like it's more of a battle for mindshare than walletshare. So it isn't all too bad that advertising is becoming more of a form of entertainment than a mantra or jingle.
Take http://woot.com/ as a merchandising paradigm. Or even the first comment at http://lifehacker.com/5620959/best-place-to-buy-cheap-textbooks-amazon from one of the "losers" of the popular vote.