When you read, "We need an Internet emergency off switch", think: "We need a printing press emergency off switch."
The fear, presumably something similar to using cell phones to trigger bombs, is certainly serious, but it's seductive rationalizations like this that lead the Founding Fathers to their absolutist stance for freedoms. History is the study of power struggles between the quick talkers who can sway masses.
There is a way to deal with this -- the deliberately laborious process of amending the Constitution. If it's a good idea, most will agree, and will agree over years of discussion, rather than a transient, small majority, the historical realm of charismatic demagogues.
Sat next to a guy once who taught jet pilots for a living. He had an awesome flight tracker running on his laptop.
Apparently rules against phones being on during flight isn't an FAA thing, it's an FCC thing. You pass from cell tower to cell tower so fast it confuses and stresses the system.
It requires thought to put it in the context of this thread, which does not fit in with the Chinese Room response of most Slashdotters, who just regurgitate memetic responses based on symbol pushing, text and moderation being two separate output vectors.
(insert here any, and I mean abso-lu-freakin'-any government spending level, borrowing level, or political narrative blasted over speakers to masses who help you take power by the abstraction of might makes right called The Vote) and those guys over there need to pay their fair share!
I'll take this as a nail in the coffin for metadata -- that it's not really meta. But the real reason is it would have been misused by England to feel out the Founding Fathers' networks, and hence the FF would have intended it to be forbidden sans warrant.
Remember, they just need to get a warrant to go leapfrogging a step (no more without Congress specifying a Bacon leap number) from known, warrantable bad guys. That is all we are saying.
I'd be fine with it remaining legal as long as ISPs were required to put it in flashing text at the beginning of their agreements: Warning! We deliberately degrade services that do not pay us extra.
Freedom is about making decisions with knowledge, not about scam behavior where the person is hoping you miss some detail of boilerplate, where their business model, if honestly written down, goes something like, "...and here we hide the scam mechanism, hoping the consumer relies on it, because if they notice it, statistically most will balk."
I thought the point was to stop crawlers from getting stuck following generated links to infinity, creating large numbers of virtual pages that would rarely if ever be instantiated, wasting the web site's resources.
Clearly using it to retroactively delete should now be revisited, at least by archive sites.
BTW, I am sure he NSA's archive crawler does not honor the robots hing.
It now occurs to me your sense of depth perception might have two components: the normal binocular part, and a supplementary muscle feedback from the single-eye adjustments for distance.
Hence this would be a much superior experience to dual LCDs, which would drive conflict in your depth sensations -- binocular telling you it's way out there, eye muscle strain telling you it's right in your face.
Assuming, of course, their device really compensates for that by duplicating rays as if from way out there.
It has 2 million micromirrors. Also, though this is in your sense a "screen" -- kind of -- your eye is not trying to focus on a thing a couple of inches in front of it -- the light can, apparently, seem as if it is coming from way otout there, hence little or no extra muscle strain trying to adjust your eyeball's roundness for extra close objects.
Yeah, I don't see what the issue is. They were sharing these files, or left them in folders their P2P software would automatically share.
The article shows the police went ot of their way to deliberately not download the files, presumably for 4th Amendment search reasons, though why even that would be a problem I don't know. They were deliberately and knowingly sharing those files.
These are called "sinecure" positions, "without care", a name from old school religion where paid appointments were made for multiplying positions outside the responsibility of saving souls. i.e. graft
In this case, it means without care to the principle mission of teaching, i.e these are not actual teachers, TAs, principles, etc. However large the self-importance, people dedicated to feelings, environmental impact, speech code enforcement, and a hundred other things not directly tied to education raises costs.
This is a known problem and is under scrutiny. Note it is, ironically, easy borrowing that lets colleges fund this. Nobody will pay an additional $1000 each year for long...but add $25. to their monthly loan bill...4 years from now? Sure! Loaners don't care because they know if it collapses, Congress will cover it anyway. Helping the kids and the future, you know.
My Blue Cross is being cancelled. Thanks, assholes. Go ahead, mod me down, hiding the issue, just like all people in power try to hide the dissenters who are in trouble.
In a free country, "for my own good" is my decision, not yours.
I just signed up for Netflix two days ago to watch some of these series. Watched two old Red Dwarfs instead and then The Hunger Games, which I hadn't seen. For $8 (and this is still the free month) almost have my money's worth already. They don't make you sign up and pay for the DVD service, which I will never use anyway. Good, that part is rapidly disappearing into history.
Will I want what's there in 6 months or two years? We shall see.
The guy who plays Loki has enormous Internet followers, so expect him to have major outings in basically every Thor and probably Avengers from here on out.
Funny. After the original Thor, Roger Ebert noted that, unlike Heath Ledger's Joker or Obadiah Stane, would you remember the bad guy 5 minutes after it was over? He wasn't a badass in either Thor or Avengers, but a weasel, a very low-rent villian not given to being much of a cosmic threat.
I'll see your old Kirk and Spock and raise you New Kirk getting chased into the one cave of millions on the one planet of billions that happened to have New Scotty in it.
Because, by tempting people with drugs, not only will they go to Hell, but those they tempted will go to Hell, too. Apparently a god exists who likes torturing people, and, rather than growing balls to stand up to this supernatural dictator, we should jail people for their own good, their own good being defined as doing things that don't make this entity angry.
However, we should also note the secular religion of Big Government of the Left does functionally the same thing, banniing stuff "for your own good". They just use a different audio stream of data to get their mechanized cogs (human brains) to behave in identical patterns.
Hah! I'll bet the lefties go a boner from the first paragraph, and the theocrats from the second. You are both part of the problem.
I can see a time coming, not so far from now, where all this is used as a quasi-radar system to track people, feeding into the machine that already tracks by face and license plate recognition.
Perhaps now is the time for constitutional amendment. Let's outlaw mind-reading machines, which are on the horizon, while we're at it. As in supra-4th Amendment, "Neither Congress nor any State shall (something flowery about invading a mind's operation to determine thoughts.)"
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When you read, "We need an Internet emergency off switch", think: "We need a printing press emergency off switch."
The fear, presumably something similar to using cell phones to trigger bombs, is certainly serious, but it's seductive rationalizations like this that lead the Founding Fathers to their absolutist stance for freedoms. History is the study of power struggles between the quick talkers who can sway masses.
There is a way to deal with this -- the deliberately laborious process of amending the Constitution. If it's a good idea, most will agree, and will agree over years of discussion, rather than a transient, small majority, the historical realm of charismatic demagogues.
Sat next to a guy once who taught jet pilots for a living. He had an awesome flight tracker running on his laptop.
Apparently rules against phones being on during flight isn't an FAA thing, it's an FCC thing. You pass from cell tower to cell tower so fast it confuses and stresses the system.
It requires thought to put it in the context of this thread, which does not fit in with the Chinese Room response of most Slashdotters, who just regurgitate memetic responses based on symbol pushing, text and moderation being two separate output vectors.
(insert here any, and I mean abso-lu-freakin'-any government spending level, borrowing level, or political narrative blasted over speakers to masses who help you take power by the abstraction of might makes right called The Vote) and those guys over there need to pay their fair share!
Take a bigger percent. Repeat again next year.
I'll take this as a nail in the coffin for metadata -- that it's not really meta. But the real reason is it would have been misused by England to feel out the Founding Fathers' networks, and hence the FF would have intended it to be forbidden sans warrant.
Remember, they just need to get a warrant to go leapfrogging a step (no more without Congress specifying a Bacon leap number) from known, warrantable bad guys. That is all we are saying.
I'd be fine with it remaining legal as long as ISPs were required to put it in flashing text at the beginning of their agreements: Warning! We deliberately degrade services that do not pay us extra.
Freedom is about making decisions with knowledge, not about scam behavior where the person is hoping you miss some detail of boilerplate, where their business model, if honestly written down, goes something like, "...and here we hide the scam mechanism, hoping the consumer relies on it, because if they notice it, statistically most will balk."
I thought the point was to stop crawlers from getting stuck following generated links to infinity, creating large numbers of virtual pages that would rarely if ever be instantiated, wasting the web site's resources.
Clearly using it to retroactively delete should now be revisited, at least by archive sites.
BTW, I am sure he NSA's archive crawler does not honor the robots hing.
It now occurs to me your sense of depth perception might have two components: the normal binocular part, and a supplementary muscle feedback from the single-eye adjustments for distance.
Hence this would be a much superior experience to dual LCDs, which would drive conflict in your depth sensations -- binocular telling you it's way out there, eye muscle strain telling you it's right in your face.
Assuming, of course, their device really compensates for that by duplicating rays as if from way out there.
Not sure what your beef is, soldier.
It has 2 million micromirrors. Also, though this is in your sense a "screen" -- kind of -- your eye is not trying to focus on a thing a couple of inches in front of it -- the light can, apparently, seem as if it is coming from way otout there, hence little or no extra muscle strain trying to adjust your eyeball's roundness for extra close objects.
Yeah, I don't see what the issue is. They were sharing these files, or left them in folders their P2P software would automatically share.
The article shows the police went ot of their way to deliberately not download the files, presumably for 4th Amendment search reasons, though why even that would be a problem I don't know. They were deliberately and knowingly sharing those files.
These are called "sinecure" positions, "without care", a name from old school religion where paid appointments were made for multiplying positions outside the responsibility of saving souls. i.e. graft
In this case, it means without care to the principle mission of teaching, i.e these are not actual teachers, TAs, principles, etc. However large the self-importance, people dedicated to feelings, environmental impact, speech code enforcement, and a hundred other things not directly tied to education raises costs.
This is a known problem and is under scrutiny. Note it is, ironically, easy borrowing that lets colleges fund this. Nobody will pay an additional $1000 each year for long...but add $25. to their monthly loan bill...4 years from now? Sure!
Loaners don't care because they know if it collapses, Congress will cover it anyway. Helping the kids and the future, you know.
My Blue Cross is being cancelled. Thanks, assholes. Go ahead, mod me down, hiding the issue, just like all people in power try to hide the dissenters who are in trouble.
In a free country, "for my own good" is my decision, not yours.
I just signed up for Netflix two days ago to watch some of these series. Watched two old Red Dwarfs instead and then The Hunger Games, which I hadn't seen. For $8 (and this is still the free month) almost have my money's worth already. They don't make you sign up and pay for the DVD service, which I will never use anyway. Good, that part is rapidly disappearing into history.
Will I want what's there in 6 months or two years? We shall see.
It's the host country's responsibility to ensure the billions of dollars in exclusivity rights' value is not diluted via unauhorized production.
Witness UK's 00 agents neck-snapping unauthorized shop owners within 200 miles of London who put "Enjoy the Olympics!" signs in their windows.
This is, after all, a private, commercial enterprise.
The guy who plays Loki has enormous Internet followers, so expect him to have major outings in basically every Thor and probably Avengers from here on out.
Funny. After the original Thor, Roger Ebert noted that, unlike Heath Ledger's Joker or Obadiah Stane, would you remember the bad guy 5 minutes after it was over? He wasn't a badass in either Thor or Avengers, but a weasel, a very low-rent villian not given to being much of a cosmic threat.
How many times did they use "Roger, Roger"?
I'll see your old Kirk and Spock and raise you New Kirk getting chased into the one cave of millions on the one planet of billions that happened to have New Scotty in it.
Because, by tempting people with drugs, not only will they go to Hell, but those they tempted will go to Hell, too. Apparently a god exists who likes torturing people, and, rather than growing balls to stand up to this supernatural dictator, we should jail people for their own good, their own good being defined as doing things that don't make this entity angry.
However, we should also note the secular religion of Big Government of the Left does functionally the same thing, banniing stuff "for your own good". They just use a different audio stream of data to get their mechanized cogs (human brains) to behave in identical patterns.
Hah! I'll bet the lefties go a boner from the first paragraph, and the theocrats from the second. You are both part of the problem.
For exactly the same reason.
> Just imagine Japan doing a celebration of pilots raiding Pearl
> Harbor. Or how about Germany holding annual celebrations for pilots of the Blitz?
So many pseudo-intellectuals posting things like this. Do you not understand you would not dare say such things in those societies in the reverse?
Do you enjoy your freedom to speak? Good. I'm glad.
> One person who isn't concertinaed
Of course he wasn't concertinaed -- he ran over a hitch, he didn't biff a bridge abutment.
> And as for your "you can waste all you want from wind and solar" premise, that's just sheer lunacy. No resource is infinite.
You have adopted a meme that wasting energy is bad, which is true for polluting or limited resources (though using energy is good).
We are at a state where energy is cheap and plentiful. We want to get there while reducing pollution. We want to be able to waste energy.
With enough recycling of forests, it would be carbon neutral. With even bigger forests and burying with sequestration, it could even remove CO2.
A bigger issue might be particulants cooling things down. I wonder how much "clean burning" has affected that.
Note on that: Flat-out ban, not banned-without-warrant.
I can see a time coming, not so far from now, where all this is used as a quasi-radar system to track people, feeding into the machine that already tracks by face and license plate recognition.
Perhaps now is the time for constitutional amendment. Let's outlaw mind-reading machines, which are on the horizon, while we're at it. As in supra-4th Amendment, "Neither Congress nor any State shall (something flowery about invading a mind's operation to determine thoughts.)"
> "and Qualcomm's latest Krait 400 quad-core"
That's better than Apple's latest Kreetle 400 duo-core!