I'll just wait for the fan-made highlight reels to hit the "illegal p2p networks".
Olympic(TM)(r)(mineMineMINE!) Highlight reel #1: The "standard" nationalistic summary of events.
Highlight reel #2: The "good stuff" - the upsets, mishaps, dislocated thumbs, and crotch shots, etc.
I'm glad that Hubble will be repaired but I fail to comprehend why it has to be by robots.
Because robots are increasingly cheaper and safer than sending humans.
As robotic capability increases, romantic notions of human astronauts merrily doing a hard days work in space will be replaced by the more efficient reality. Of course, we'll eventually move our expensive bags of water offplanet, but robots&ai are the better/faster/cheaper trailblazers.
1st: I'm agnostic, and I don't begrudge anyone their choice of religious social-club as long as it doesn't affect me (as in: "die heathen/infidel/witch!"). The one aspect of religion I live by -- which is also the kernel of most non-hypocritical religions -- is The Golden Rule.
2nd: 'Singulartarianism' isn't a religion, as such. It's just an inevitability as long as the current rate of tech acceleration continues as it has for billions of years. I may be a proponent, but there's no blind faith or fables here. Still, detractors of the idea like to call it the "Rapture of the Nerds".
<studmuffn> they told us not to ask why they cant fix baldness in the 24th century
But that would be an easy question to answer: "Baldness, as well as every other bio-problem you can name, was solved early in the 21st century despite the short-sightedness of a few powerful religious luddites (the Bushies). The reason, then, that Jean Luc was bald, is that he chose to be. Recall that he never married, and that he wasn't much for vanity, so what use did he have to fake a "youthful vitality" at age 70?"
A good follow up question to ask would be: "then why the hell do people in the trek utopia choose to age? Aging is a genetic disease with a 100% mortality rate! And why no brain backups if not outright transhumanism? Spock had a brain transplant if you remember. The technology is there!" A likely answer: "We have to anthropomorphize the show for today's human viewing audience!!!! ok!?! Got it!":)
I very much doubt that Shatner's hard up for money. What he craves is a return to his glory days... of painted-green alien women in his dressing room, and a full head of hair.
In fact, it's been observed that just about any evolutionary process you care to name will advance exponentially. This is known as The Law of Accelerating Returns (which is more general than the more familliar "Moore's Law" that people like to apply to everything except what it was intended for (transistors)).
WARNING: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears
I find it funny that way more people use the opensource eMule ed2k client than use the original eDonkey client (or BearShare (gnutella)), but that there's no company to sue. Of course, they could force slashdot's parent company to force the emule project page off of its webhost, but that wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
Also, when the highest visibility ed2k link pages -- sharereactor.com and jigle.com -- were taken down a few months back, worthy whack-a-mole replacements appeared within days. The same thing would happen if suprnova.org's (BT) mirrors were somehow killed off.
The only way to really kill p2p is to kill freedom itself with police state measures like mandated DRM infesting everything you touch, and even then there are workarounds.
Out of curiousity, I just added this book -- "Katie.com, My story" -- to Pud-of-Fucked-Company's amazon sales rank tracker. Currently the book's rank is 18836, and is updated hourly.
I have no idea what the rank was before this domain-thievery story got the attention is has now, but I really hope it doesn't increase because of "any news being good news."
"Trusted Computing" and "The Secure Internet" are double-plus ungood euphemisms for COMMAND & CONTROL (over you).
A world with 100% accountability is damn depressing. Anyone who says otherwise either hasn't seriously thought about the implications, or has, but thinks he's among the few who stands to benefit from stopping the natural freeflow of information.
Oh. Now I realize why my right pinky hurts: I forgot that I like to slap the ENTER key with it. Once had a keyboard where it was the sticky key.
Funny how you don't notice how you type until you take a look, but when you observe how you type you can't remember how you do it. Heisenberg strikes again.
Even though I learned some bad typing habits, my WPM and accuracy is still up there. I don't have to look at the keyboard, but I KNOW that I'm not typing in the most efficient manner.
Some of my bad habits:
Almost never using the left SHIFT key, in favor of the right one for everything.
Not using my right pinky for anything BUT the right SHIFT key.
Not using my left pinky for anything but the Z, A, and CTRL keys - I think you're supposed to hit Q with the pinky too... but I'd rather move my ring finger over.
Depending on the word I'm typing, moving my fingers away from the homerow to hit keys they're not supposed to.
After a lot of typing, the finger that hurts the most is my right pinky. Why is that?:) Old habits die hard.
It's not that often you hear about GPL'd software switching to an (effectively) closed-source license; especially recently, it's been exactly the opposite trend.
It would have to take a LOT of pork and power to get your average "GPL idealist" to sellout, but the stakes are too high with voting software to allow corruption to be closed source! They claim they need to protect their "intellectual property" for security reasons when in fact security by obscurity has nothing to do with it, and they know it.
I run VMWare under my SuSE 9.1 desktop primarily for webdev as well. However, I do the actual dev under linux with vi and Quanta, and then use the WinXP guest OS for checking browser compatibility with all versions of IE (installed at the same time), FireFox, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera. Can't test for the Mac though.
Also, as the previous poster said, once you've installed the VMWare Tools, you don't need to press and release Ctrl+Alt in order to change the VMWare window focus; you can seemlessly move your mouse between the guest and host OS's (among other functionality).
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I'll just wait for the fan-made highlight reels to hit the "illegal p2p networks".
Olympic(TM)(r)(mineMineMINE!) Highlight reel #1: The "standard" nationalistic summary of events.
Highlight reel #2: The "good stuff" - the upsets, mishaps, dislocated thumbs, and crotch shots, etc.
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I guess now I'm supposed to feel guilty and unl33t when hairy upgrades like this are made so damn easy.
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Because some people still have romantic scifi notions of humans laboring in the new space frontier like heroic cowboys, when the reality is that increasing robotic/ai capability will be replacing many jobs starting with the most dangerous.
Timmy: "Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a RoboNaut"
Mom: "Ah... how cute - and your sister wants to be a 'My Little Pony' when she grows up."
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Because robots are increasingly cheaper and safer than sending humans.
As robotic capability increases, romantic notions of human astronauts merrily doing a hard days work in space will be replaced by the more efficient reality. Of course, we'll eventually move our expensive bags of water offplanet, but robots&ai are the better/faster/cheaper trailblazers.
Not a popular opinion, I know.
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2nd: 'Singulartarianism' isn't a religion, as such. It's just an inevitability as long as the current rate of tech acceleration continues as it has for billions of years. I may be a proponent, but there's no blind faith or fables here. Still, detractors of the idea like to call it the "Rapture of the Nerds".
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But that would be an easy question to answer: "Baldness, as well as every other bio-problem you can name, was solved early in the 21st century despite the short-sightedness of a few powerful religious luddites (the Bushies). The reason, then, that Jean Luc was bald, is that he chose to be. Recall that he never married, and that he wasn't much for vanity, so what use did he have to fake a "youthful vitality" at age 70?"
A good follow up question to ask would be: "then why the hell do people in the trek utopia choose to age? Aging is a genetic disease with a 100% mortality rate! And why no brain backups if not outright transhumanism? Spock had a brain transplant if you remember. The technology is there!" A likely answer: "We have to anthropomorphize the show for today's human viewing audience!!!! ok!?! Got it!" :)
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WARNING: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears
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Oh, but he is a patriot -- a brave new patriot for a brave new world :)
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I meant to link to aMule, and not eMule (since it's been abandoned by it's attention hungry sociopath dev).
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Also, when the highest visibility ed2k link pages -- sharereactor.com and jigle.com -- were taken down a few months back, worthy whack-a-mole replacements appeared within days. The same thing would happen if suprnova.org's (BT) mirrors were somehow killed off.
The only way to really kill p2p is to kill freedom itself with police state measures like mandated DRM infesting everything you touch, and even then there are workarounds.
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I have no idea what the rank was before this domain-thievery story got the attention is has now, but I really hope it doesn't increase because of "any news being good news."
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At what point did state governments start to unabashedly refer to its citizens as consumers? (Don't answer that.)
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That's the plan.
"Trusted Computing" and "The Secure Internet" are double-plus ungood euphemisms for COMMAND & CONTROL (over you).
A world with 100% accountability is damn depressing. Anyone who says otherwise either hasn't seriously thought about the implications, or has, but thinks he's among the few who stands to benefit from stopping the natural freeflow of information.
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Yay!
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*a few minutes pass*
Your Rights Online: FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
Boo!
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Funny how you don't notice how you type until you take a look, but when you observe how you type you can't remember how you do it. Heisenberg strikes again.
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How does that quote go? "Sorry I didn't have time to write a shorter letter" ?
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Some of my bad habits:
- Almost never using the left SHIFT key, in favor of the right one for everything.
- Not using my right pinky for anything BUT the right SHIFT key.
- Not using my left pinky for anything but the Z, A, and CTRL keys - I think you're supposed to hit Q with the pinky too... but I'd rather move my ring finger over.
- Depending on the word I'm typing, moving my fingers away from the homerow to hit keys they're not supposed to.
After a lot of typing, the finger that hurts the most is my right pinky. Why is that?--
It would have to take a LOT of pork and power to get your average "GPL idealist" to sellout, but the stakes are too high with voting software to allow corruption to be closed source! They claim they need to protect their "intellectual property" for security reasons when in fact security by obscurity has nothing to do with it, and they know it.
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The big (and not so big) PORN sites have been doing this since the mid 90's.
As always, the pr0n industry leads.
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Or to a transhuman inner space. We won't be stuck wasting meatspace forever, you know.
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The glorious Department of "HomeSec" (how cute) might have an opening for you!
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Also, as the previous poster said, once you've installed the VMWare Tools, you don't need to press and release Ctrl+Alt in order to change the VMWare window focus; you can seemlessly move your mouse between the guest and host OS's (among other functionality).