Don't you wish you *could* recompile your kernel? All you would need is some modified viruses for gene therapy to deliver modified genes to cells you want helped. If you want a cure you won't need to renew all the time, that's where stem cells come in.
If you're interested in directed evolution and improving humans, you may be interested in the Extropy Institute. They have healthy attitudes toward this sort of thing. I'm looking forward to the future....
Hopefully in the future stereos will move away from plain uncompressed stuff and towards things like MP3s. It will be nice to be able to fit a huge bunch of music on a single CD, called "Peter's Favorite Music" in my case, that you can play on good audio hardware, not just old Sound Blaster speakers.
Why hasn't Red Crap - I mean Red Hat donated anything before?
This is a good idea. I think that a bunch of Linux companies should get together and donate a bunch of CDs to schools and such, and pretty soon thousands of kids know how to use Linux!
Why are these people offering encrypted email? You can easily do it yourself with PGP. Just get PGP For windows or unix here or look for the C-KT build for windows only (but with a nice GUI).
Register your address on a keyserver, get a good email client, and off you go!
The world could always use more science, and this looks like it could be partly funded by tourism. The abandoned mine makes it safer, and it won't be full of old stuff since it is being made new!
The reason corporations aren't suffering from people voting with their wallets is so simple you can say it in one word: apathy. Most people don't care enough to stand up for themselves. Those who do are a vocal minority, and I am proud to be one of them.
The ability to smoke weed does not make you free. You need some priorities. How about the ability to criticize laws that you don't agree with? How about the right to worship any God (or anything else) you want to?
I'm glad that I can criticise laws I don't agree with and be mostly free from religious fanatics, but that is not as much freedom as I want. I want to be able to to stupid things without the government getting paternalistic and throwing me in jail. Some poeple can get life sentences for drug dealing. That is insane! I appreciate the freedom I have; I just want more.
Why should Google or any other search engine do anything to save fools from their stupidity? Putting credit card numbers online where anyone can get them is just plain idiotic. Hopefully this will get a lot of publicity along with the names of companies who do stupid things like this and most people will shape up their act.
The article mentioned censors. Perhaps this is just a typo of "sensors" (I hope so), but if they ever manage to hook up a little computer that won't let me hear "bad" words (I still don't see how they are bad...), I will be very angry.
Surely they can put things like Apache and Mozilla in a special "Mostly harmless" directory or something. It would be a tragedy to see a linux distro ship without things like these.
You have a right to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, just as the theater owners have a right to toss you out for creating a disturbance in their theater. Racial hate is stupid, but as some other replies to your post pointed out, the definition of racial hatred is open to as much interpretation as the Bible. Remember the UN thing that was opposed because someone thought that the denouncement of Zionist rascism was racial hate speech?
I do not want to ban child pornography. The making of child pornography, if it is any worse than taking pictures of a baby with its butt waving in the air, should be illegal instead. It is not the distribution that harms the child.
I'll say how cool that is when they manage to put a trillion in a test tube and perform a billion calculations. This can be seriously cool, and I'll be there cheering when they have something a bit more impressive to show.
Wait for next July, when a treaty on banning racial hatred from the internet will be drafted.
I think that racists are cretins, but they have a right to hate whomever they please. They also have a right to express themselves, and the internet isn't immune to free speech. Now if only everyone else would agree....
Someone switches off the landing lights via the computer systems. What does this tell them? Improve security? Maybe seperate the landing lights from the computers? No! They think that they can just scare people in to harmlessness. There have been laws like this for a long time, and there are still lots of poeple who R173 L1K3 7hI5!!!
Improve security. Seperate important systems like landing lights from the internet. Don't just sue people.
Technology is part of evolution. You cannot stop, confine, or reverse technology. This is something the taliban has no chance of doing.
But not for lack of trying. Native Americans often tried to stop technology from changing their lives, but they have failed. The Taliban was thouroughly totalitarian, and look at what people do the moment they turn their backs.
Quoth Technology to the Taliban:
All your people are belong to us!
DMCA working against RIAA et al!
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Some people have refused to make security problems bublic, thus weakeneing the security of HDCP (someone could have fixed it), and this works against the *AA media bunches. Ah, the irony of it....
For got IE versus Netscape? Personally I like netscape better, but better than both is Opera. Small, fast, and free! It has never, in my experience, crashed. This is a good thing.
How can anyone know practically every keyboard command in emacs? I keep seeing odd things like backward-evaluate-sexp, or something like that, and I can't make head or tail of it. I just use C-x C-f and such.
No, Linux doesn't require a lot of maintenance, as Microsoft will have you believe. It does take some skill to set up properly, more than the average windows user typically uses, but you can then forget about it, unless you want to make everything cooler by modifying it a lot, which you can do if you try. Much better than the windows config strategy of hiding everything from you.
The big point here, I think, is not the "Windows" part, but the "Transmeta" part, which you conveniently left out of your comment. Like it or not, Windows can function well enough for someone to, say, look at web pages. Besides, WinCE is supposed to be "Light weight". I can't attest to this, as I've never used it.
Self-regulation is not the answer. Look at the recent DDoS attacks, hackers, pirates forcing intellectual property violations on unknowing sysadmins (ie Napster, FTP), and other malicious activity. Investigating Corporate oppression could not only provide the avenues to stop these, but to also prevent them.
Government regulation is not the answer. Look at all the recent nasty things: email viruses, DDoS attacks, and a bunch of untracable script kiddies sitting in their basements making spelling mistakes. You say someone should go after all these people and get them? This would mean great privacy violations. What if I make a web page with instructions for a pipe bomb, or promoting the use of drugs? These are just free speech, but it is unlikely that everyone in, say, the FBI would share this opinion.
Regulation gives people who make insecure products like IIS and Outlook something to hide behind, rather than being out in the open and having to shape up or fail. Remember when MS tried to blame the messenger of security bugs? They can simply say, "We need more rules!". Ugh.
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If you're interested in directed evolution and improving humans, you may be interested in the Extropy Institute. They have healthy attitudes toward this sort of thing. I'm looking forward to the future....
20 gigs is nice at first. When you get to thinking what you could do with a horrendous hard drive, then is when the 20 gigs suddenly seems very small.
Hopefully in the future stereos will move away from plain uncompressed stuff and towards things like MP3s. It will be nice to be able to fit a huge bunch of music on a single CD, called "Peter's Favorite Music" in my case, that you can play on good audio hardware, not just old Sound Blaster speakers.
This is a good idea. I think that a bunch of Linux companies should get together and donate a bunch of CDs to schools and such, and pretty soon thousands of kids know how to use Linux!
All your school are belong to us, MS!
Register your address on a keyserver, get a good email client, and off you go!
Now, if everything passes....
The reason corporations aren't suffering from people voting with their wallets is so simple you can say it in one word: apathy. Most people don't care enough to stand up for themselves. Those who do are a vocal minority, and I am proud to be one of them.
I'm glad that I can criticise laws I don't agree with and be mostly free from religious fanatics, but that is not as much freedom as I want. I want to be able to to stupid things without the government getting paternalistic and throwing me in jail. Some poeple can get life sentences for drug dealing. That is insane! I appreciate the freedom I have; I just want more.
Why should Google or any other search engine do anything to save fools from their stupidity? Putting credit card numbers online where anyone can get them is just plain idiotic. Hopefully this will get a lot of publicity along with the names of companies who do stupid things like this and most people will shape up their act.
The article mentioned censors. Perhaps this is just a typo of "sensors" (I hope so), but if they ever manage to hook up a little computer that won't let me hear "bad" words (I still don't see how they are bad...), I will be very angry.
Surely they can put things like Apache and Mozilla in a special "Mostly harmless" directory or something. It would be a tragedy to see a linux distro ship without things like these.
You have a right to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, just as the theater owners have a right to toss you out for creating a disturbance in their theater. Racial hate is stupid, but as some other replies to your post pointed out, the definition of racial hatred is open to as much interpretation as the Bible. Remember the UN thing that was opposed because someone thought that the denouncement of Zionist rascism was racial hate speech?
I do not want to ban child pornography. The making of child pornography, if it is any worse than taking pictures of a baby with its butt waving in the air, should be illegal instead. It is not the distribution that harms the child.
I'll say how cool that is when they manage to put a trillion in a test tube and perform a billion calculations. This can be seriously cool, and I'll be there cheering when they have something a bit more impressive to show.
I think that racists are cretins, but they have a right to hate whomever they please. They also have a right to express themselves, and the internet isn't immune to free speech. Now if only everyone else would agree....
Improve security. Seperate important systems like landing lights from the internet. Don't just sue people.
If he buried the computer deep enough the temperatures would be uniformly cool. And he could have put it in a box for protection.
But not for lack of trying. Native Americans often tried to stop technology from changing their lives, but they have failed. The Taliban was thouroughly totalitarian, and look at what people do the moment they turn their backs.
Quoth Technology to the Taliban:
All your people are belong to us!
Some people have refused to make security problems bublic, thus weakeneing the security of HDCP (someone could have fixed it), and this works against the *AA media bunches. Ah, the irony of it....
For got IE versus Netscape? Personally I like netscape better, but better than both is Opera. Small, fast, and free! It has never, in my experience, crashed. This is a good thing.
How can anyone know practically every keyboard command in emacs? I keep seeing odd things like backward-evaluate-sexp, or something like that, and I can't make head or tail of it. I just use C-x C-f and such.
No, Linux doesn't require a lot of maintenance, as Microsoft will have you believe. It does take some skill to set up properly, more than the average windows user typically uses, but you can then forget about it, unless you want to make everything cooler by modifying it a lot, which you can do if you try. Much better than the windows config strategy of hiding everything from you.
The big point here, I think, is not the "Windows" part, but the "Transmeta" part, which you conveniently left out of your comment. Like it or not, Windows can function well enough for someone to, say, look at web pages. Besides, WinCE is supposed to be "Light weight". I can't attest to this, as I've never used it.
Government regulation is not the answer. Look at all the recent nasty things: email viruses, DDoS attacks, and a bunch of untracable script kiddies sitting in their basements making spelling mistakes. You say someone should go after all these people and get them? This would mean great privacy violations. What if I make a web page with instructions for a pipe bomb, or promoting the use of drugs? These are just free speech, but it is unlikely that everyone in, say, the FBI would share this opinion.
Regulation gives people who make insecure products like IIS and Outlook something to hide behind, rather than being out in the open and having to shape up or fail. Remember when MS tried to blame the messenger of security bugs? They can simply say, "We need more rules!". Ugh.