1) You take an unopened beer can and poke two small holes in the side near the bottom.
2) Suck the beer out (slowly).
3) Refill it with your own urine and tape over the holes.
4) Subtly mark the cans (so you know which NOT to drink) and place them in the front of the fridge.
5) Place a 'disclaimer' note on your fridge: "Final Warning: Beer tastes like piss. KEEP OUT!"
6) Wait (with glee?) for behavioral conditioning of your roommate to occur while you're (far) away.
It's just that you (along with your 'Anonvmous Coward' co-worker) come across as pretentious fucks... but your sense of humor and easy-on-the-brain writing style balances it out IMO.:)
And it just so happens that 12pt Courier is the de facto font used in the scriptwriting industry. If you can't stand it... too bad... you won't be taken seriously if you don't play by the rules (and there's a bunch of 'em)
Aren't they still using the convenient Terrorist Excuse to keep people from bringing stuff like that in?
Much like how another group of assholes is abusing the terrorist card by demanding that the government ban adbanner-towing planes from flying over their stadiums... when the real reason for their 'concern' is that they don't get a cut of the revenue.
Only in a bizzaro universe could a site like ShareReactor be blacklisted from the Internet for a supposed reason as stupid as "contributory copyright infringement".
And in the very very very very unlikely case (I need to believe that) that the backbone providers don't have any backbone and cave, you just know something OTHER than DNS will be layered (securely) ontop of tcp/ip. Assuming that the backbone ISPs don't also outlaw random data (i.e. suspicious encrypted activity) crossing their lines, there's not much they can do anyway.
Oh no! I just found a freely available NYC watershed map. Now the evildoers know where to drop their dirtybombs into the watersupply!
We're all going to die! Ahh!
National Security is increasingly used as an EXCUSE to take power. Security by obscurity doesn't work... Israel is a police state and they're no fucking safer. I guess you're not willing to pay the price for being FREE. ass.
I addressed that contradiction when I "hoped" that we wouldn't be living under technological tyranny by that point.
Much like how millions of people think nothing of "pirating" information, I expect BILLIONS will likewise think nothing of "pirating molecular blueprints" so they can then 'illegally' manufacture that object using the locally available molecules that compose it.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't feel an ounce of guilt in "pirating" and reproducing a scan of a McDonalds cheeseburger for example... in fact I'd feel orders of magnitude less guilt doing that than dl'ing some poor bands mp3 AT PRESENT, because AT PRESENT that band has to eat expensive food to survive.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I really believe that something this disruptive can't be held back by the status quo that is trying to limit digital freedom. It's all encompassing with nanotech... not just info, but matter.
I doubt it; it's way too much work required for too little payoff.
While they do manage to tag some of the most 'daring' locations, I don't imagine they'd have the patience to tag the hundreds of signs along the tunnel.
If you can come up with a way to sell people on the value of society instead of the value of money, please do so
The way out of the money pit will gradually reveal itself during the middle of this century as nanotechnology transforms our economy of scarcity into one of abundance. Hypercapitalism doesn't have much meaning in that kind of environment- people can focus less on material survival and wealth status, and more on what counts in life.
The gap between the haves and havenots will be MUCH MUCH smaller in a future where the means of material (re)production are as cheap and democratized as current information (re)production is. One of the reasons Gates is so absurdly filthy rich (as compared to just Rockefeller rich or Ford rich) is because he's got a monopoly selling something which isn't really scarce.
Anyway, assuming tyrants haven't been given control of the planet by the meek (who've been frightened by likes of Bill Joy's KillJoy), this'll be another Renaissance period.
I know... I sound like someone with my head up my^H^H^H^H^Hin the clouds... but in fact much of this scifi speculation is based in reality.
Instead we'll just have to wait for gnutella, or another p2p network, to implement distributed webcaching functionality (not HOST caching, but webcontent caching--there's a difference)...
If you think of a blueprint like a seed instead of a bit-for-bit representation of the final product, then the analogy sticks. We unfold like a fractal... with most of our genes being leftover junk not expressing anything.
Right. That popup could consist of a 30second flash ad that you had to pay attention to if you wanted access to the site. "How many times did Brittany stick the PEPSI can up her hoohoo?" If you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't get access.
Generating the ad on the fly (like you mentioned) would be much more expensive though, but the answer couldn't be scripted without some strong AI.
Though, if things got that bad, I imagine the people who had previously been happy to manually close popups would change their stance.
If this type of thing catches on, then popup blocking s/w will have to make one simple change:
Instead of denying all unrequested popups by disabling javascript or via proxy filtering, they'll be accepted, but INVISIBLY IN THE BACKGROUND, so that the confirmation that's loaded in the popup can be returned before the window is closed.
If the next step is to make the popup ads more "interactive" so you can't close them right away, that'll piss off way too many people.
e.g. "You can't view this page because you didn't answer the popup correctly: There were NINE cans of PEPSI in the flash commercial."
Please... there's no balls behind any of the official proposals. And the idea that the surface area where the two towers once stood is "hallowed ground" and CANT be built upon makes me cringe. There's other ways to memorialize the general area without being so simpleminded.
Once you stop playing the "grass is greener" game, you live a much happier life. Being happy with what you have, and not keeping up with the Jones', is the same as being an "anti-consumer" in many peoples' eyes though - which is fine with me.
...but it shouldn't stop us from dreaming of more.
Dreaming of more is different from ALWAYS wanting more for lack of EVER being satisfied with what you have. You can be happy with your life as-is and still be a productive citizen (not consumer) working towards a better future for yourself and others.
banner-block ugly billboards with pictures of trees or background patterns by day
That's theft! You have no right to filter eyesores!:)
Banner blocking via image recognition would be nice though. Instead of just being able to block known adspace (by GPS), you could block any ad anywhere. Suddenly all those annoying Old Navy walking billboards (t-shirts with legs), are plain cloth again. Oh the endless possibilities.:)
So since the human eye has 6 to 7 million cones (i.e. megapixels), that would be like a 2500x2500 display, or 25,000 x 25,000 with the 1/10th subpixel interpolation you mentioned. But that would be a display that's concentrated in the narrow FOV of your fovea... whereas your peripheral vision is always fuzzy (because it's mostly sensitive to light and motion, not detail).
I sent the EFF $100 on Sept 10th, 2001 - the day before 9-11 - because I was pissed about hearing of a draft version of the SSSCA that would require all devices to have a mandated copyright-cop chip.
The next day the shit hit the fan and I figured my donation was wasted in the face of the powergrabbing to follow. The pendulum still isn't shifting back towards sanity yet...
IPv6's abundance of address space (among other advantages) is ironically probably one of the things holding it back. IPv4 has scarcity built-in, thus you can (over)charge for that... sad but true.
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1) You take an unopened beer can and poke two small holes in the side near the bottom.
2) Suck the beer out (slowly).
3) Refill it with your own urine and tape over the holes.
4) Subtly mark the cans (so you know which NOT to drink) and place them in the front of the fridge.
5) Place a 'disclaimer' note on your fridge: "Final Warning: Beer tastes like piss. KEEP OUT!" 6) Wait (with glee?) for behavioral conditioning of your roommate to occur while you're (far) away.
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You actually sunk to caveman depths and lied about your car to get chicks? I figured you for a geek who's too idealistic for his own good.
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Because everyone else is? And maybe because those same suits probably own ORCL stock?
It's a nice circlejerk.
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Much like how another group of assholes is abusing the terrorist card by demanding that the government ban adbanner-towing planes from flying over their stadiums... when the real reason for their 'concern' is that they don't get a cut of the revenue.
(You can mod me down now... I feel better)
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And in the very very very very unlikely case (I need to believe that) that the backbone providers don't have any backbone and cave, you just know something OTHER than DNS will be layered (securely) ontop of tcp/ip. Assuming that the backbone ISPs don't also outlaw random data (i.e. suspicious encrypted activity) crossing their lines, there's not much they can do anyway.
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We're all going to die! Ahh!
National Security is increasingly used as an EXCUSE to take power. Security by obscurity doesn't work... Israel is a police state and they're no fucking safer. I guess you're not willing to pay the price for being FREE. ass.
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Much like how millions of people think nothing of "pirating" information, I expect BILLIONS will likewise think nothing of "pirating molecular blueprints" so they can then 'illegally' manufacture that object using the locally available molecules that compose it.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't feel an ounce of guilt in "pirating" and reproducing a scan of a McDonalds cheeseburger for example... in fact I'd feel orders of magnitude less guilt doing that than dl'ing some poor bands mp3 AT PRESENT, because AT PRESENT that band has to eat expensive food to survive.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I really believe that something this disruptive can't be held back by the status quo that is trying to limit digital freedom. It's all encompassing with nanotech... not just info, but matter.
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While they do manage to tag some of the most 'daring' locations, I don't imagine they'd have the patience to tag the hundreds of signs along the tunnel.
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The way out of the money pit will gradually reveal itself during the middle of this century as nanotechnology transforms our economy of scarcity into one of abundance. Hypercapitalism doesn't have much meaning in that kind of environment- people can focus less on material survival and wealth status, and more on what counts in life.
The gap between the haves and havenots will be MUCH MUCH smaller in a future where the means of material (re)production are as cheap and democratized as current information (re)production is. One of the reasons Gates is so absurdly filthy rich (as compared to just Rockefeller rich or Ford rich) is because he's got a monopoly selling something which isn't really scarce.
Anyway, assuming tyrants haven't been given control of the planet by the meek (who've been frightened by likes of Bill Joy's KillJoy), this'll be another Renaissance period.
I know... I sound like someone with my head up my^H^H^H^H^Hin the clouds... but in fact much of this scifi speculation is based in reality.
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Instead we'll just have to wait for gnutella, or another p2p network, to implement distributed webcaching functionality (not HOST caching, but webcontent caching--there's a difference)...
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Generating the ad on the fly (like you mentioned) would be much more expensive though, but the answer couldn't be scripted without some strong AI.
Though, if things got that bad, I imagine the people who had previously been happy to manually close popups would change their stance.
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Instead of denying all unrequested popups by disabling javascript or via proxy filtering, they'll be accepted, but INVISIBLY IN THE BACKGROUND, so that the confirmation that's loaded in the popup can be returned before the window is closed.
If the next step is to make the popup ads more "interactive" so you can't close them right away, that'll piss off way too many people.
e.g. "You can't view this page because you didn't answer the popup correctly: There were NINE cans of PEPSI in the flash commercial."
ick.
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Please... there's no balls behind any of the official proposals. And the idea that the surface area where the two towers once stood is "hallowed ground" and CANT be built upon makes me cringe. There's other ways to memorialize the general area without being so simpleminded.
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
Dreaming of more is different from ALWAYS wanting more for lack of EVER being satisfied with what you have. You can be happy with your life as-is and still be a productive citizen (not consumer) working towards a better future for yourself and others.
Zen.
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That's theft! You have no right to filter eyesores! :)
Banner blocking via image recognition would be nice though. Instead of just being able to block known adspace (by GPS), you could block any ad anywhere. Suddenly all those annoying Old Navy walking billboards (t-shirts with legs), are plain cloth again. Oh the endless possibilities. :)
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The current "proposals" are just plain depressing... they just scream of a defeatest attitude...
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The next day the shit hit the fan and I figured my donation was wasted in the face of the powergrabbing to follow. The pendulum still isn't shifting back towards sanity yet...
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