...how you'll be identified, tracked, and monitored online.
I thought this was pretty funny: how matter-of-factly the author wrote the phrase. WE have a choice of course. We can choose not to participate in using the Internet any longer if it comes to that. "That was cool. Next."
What Anonymity said:
"Consumers want Digital IDs"
Uh huh. WE ARE CONSUMERS. I'm a consumer, you're a consumer, our friends are consumers, our enemies are consumers. Do we all want digital IDs? NO! Get your ideas straight, man.
It bothers me that a company can say in their EULA something like "these terms may change at any time without notice". What security does that give the user? You're at the mercy of their whim. It should work that whatever you agree to with a certain version of their product cannot change -- if a new version comes out with new terms, you shouldn't be forced to use that version and therefore abide by those terms. But alas, it is not so.
The first few paragraphs have me reeled in... this is really scary - it totally makes sense! I truly am a geek. Well there are worse things... I could be a lawyer!
Concentrating on noise escaping the hard drive has little benefit. We should be concentrating more on limiting the noise that escapes from computer cases. Doesn't that make so much more sense??
If you're going to say, well what about rack mounted computers, then you haven't been in a heavily air conditioned room before. It's LOUD without the computers.
Personally, I've resisted using them for years, but convincing clients that they're not worth the effort has always been difficult. Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"
Okay, if the person who submitted this story actually read Slashdot, they would have saw the story about 90% of the Internet being obsolete. So then, if that story is correct, obviously meta tags abound! If that story is incorrect, then you have to question the journalistic integrity of Slashdot. Who would want to do that?.. tsk tsk.
As soon as I read the Slashdot heading, I said aloud : "cool". If it is as good as it sounds, it will be cool. But often tv shows and movies are hyped up far beyond what they've actually achieved.
Yes, VNC is definitely a tool that should be in everyone's belt. I've been running TightVNC on a couple of machines (the rest are 3.3.9 of the original VNC) and haven't noticed any speed improvement, frankly. I hope this new version addresses that. Hopefully it's more dialup connection friendly, too, though that's a pretty hard target to hit.
I think a side benefit of developing software in your own time is that you work on it for a few hours at a time on average. Then you have a full day to think about what you added, whether it's good, what else could be added, etc... It's not a rush to add as many features as you can in each 8 hour (or more) day with little time to think about how good those things are.
That game relieved a lot of stress for my friends and I in high school at the arcade. Also lightened the load of the change in my pocket pretty quickly, too.;)
You do realize that there are other considerations here. "ill" and "good" are pretty general terms. What is the benefit? Is it worth risking the chance of ill-use?
Take automobiles. They can kill, and they can be used for good. The good outweights the bad. What if every motor vehicle had a nuclear reactor in the trunk? If you crashed, an entire neighbourhood got nuked. Would the good outweigh the bad? No way.
I think the good does not outweigh the bad in the case of genome profiling.
It doesn't matter if there's a copy of your DNA on file anywhere... anyone with a tissue sample (and 600 grand) could presumably get a map of your genome.
True, but they'd have to have REALLY deep pockets to get thousands or millions of peoples' genomes. And there's the small detail of the tissue sample. Not too hard, but again for thousands or millions of people - a huge feat.
Why would someone conceivably want a huge database of genomes? That question almost answers itself. While one person's genome might be useless, aggregating is powerful. Rules could be built using aggregated data... and insurance companies could say "Well, Mr. Smith, our report shows you deviate by +0.53 from the standard norm for this gene. We won't be able to insure you, I'm afraid."
And, as I have said, the best part is that these rich bastards will be footing the bill! Glorious.
Do you know how bacteria grows? It starts with one cell. That one splits - now there are two. Those split, then there are 4..8..16..32..64......millions......billions...
Hundreds of Slashdot folk can balloon out pretty quick, given that word of mouth is still the most powerful form of advertising.
Nice attempt at marginalizing the Slashdot crowd... and better luck next time.
That's neat. If you charge for a service, people line up for it. If the government mandated that you had to let them figure out your genome, people would scream.
Are these millionaires naive enough to think that a copy of their data will not be kept somewhere?
CleanFlicks is merely providing a service. They are removing stuff from movies that you might not want to see. If you want to see the full-length movie with all its gory detail, you are always free to go somewhere else. So what's the problem? Why is it that people fight so blindly for what helps to corrupt our minds in the name of freedom. Let those who want to clean up their lives have a fair shot at doing it.
I had a cable modem for about three years, and DSL for about a year. Now, unbelievably almost, I'm back to dialup. Why? Because I'm tired of being treated like a piece of dirt by PacBell. I'm tired of companies blaming p2p users for using too much bandwidth. Like hey, do you want me to have high speed access or not? And 50 bucks a month adds up pretty quick, so I've saved a few hundred dollars already and spent it on other, better things. I also spend less time surfing the net and more time coding which is great. Less distractions. Before I was checking my email every 15 minutes and all the news just because I could. Friggen addiction man.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought this was pretty funny: how matter-of-factly the author wrote the phrase. WE have a choice of course. We can choose not to participate in using the Internet any longer if it comes to that. "That was cool. Next."
What Anonymity said:
"Consumers want Digital IDs"
Uh huh. WE ARE CONSUMERS. I'm a consumer, you're a consumer, our friends are consumers, our enemies are consumers. Do we all want digital IDs? NO! Get your ideas straight, man.
_Somebody_ was paying attention! ;)
Mod this dude up...
Damn I miss the C64. Thank goodness for emulators for when my system finally kicks.
Wrong system - this is meant for the Commodore 64.
:)
53280 - border colour
53281 - center screen colour
646 - text colour
64738 - soft-reset the system
And no, I didn't look it up. Heh.
Hell yeah, as is:
POKE 53280,0
POKE 53281,0
POKE 646,1
PRINT "GOING BYE BYE"
SYS 64738
It bothers me that a company can say in their EULA something like "these terms may change at any time without notice". What security does that give the user? You're at the mercy of their whim. It should work that whatever you agree to with a certain version of their product cannot change -- if a new version comes out with new terms, you shouldn't be forced to use that version and therefore abide by those terms. But alas, it is not so.
The first few paragraphs have me reeled in... this is really scary - it totally makes sense! I truly am a geek. Well there are worse things... I could be a lawyer!
Concentrating on noise escaping the hard drive has little benefit. We should be concentrating more on limiting the noise that escapes from computer cases. Doesn't that make so much more sense??
If you're going to say, well what about rack mounted computers, then you haven't been in a heavily air conditioned room before. It's LOUD without the computers.
Okay, if the person who submitted this story actually read Slashdot, they would have saw the story about 90% of the Internet being obsolete. So then, if that story is correct, obviously meta tags abound! If that story is incorrect, then you have to question the journalistic integrity of Slashdot. Who would want to do that?.. tsk tsk.
As soon as I read the Slashdot heading, I said aloud : "cool". If it is as good as it sounds, it will be cool. But often tv shows and movies are hyped up far beyond what they've actually achieved.
Yes, VNC is definitely a tool that should be in everyone's belt. I've been running TightVNC on a couple of machines (the rest are 3.3.9 of the original VNC) and haven't noticed any speed improvement, frankly. I hope this new version addresses that. Hopefully it's more dialup connection friendly, too, though that's a pretty hard target to hit.
I think a side benefit of developing software in your own time is that you work on it for a few hours at a time on average. Then you have a full day to think about what you added, whether it's good, what else could be added, etc...
It's not a rush to add as many features as you can in each 8 hour (or more) day with little time to think about how good those things are.
Two words, man...
;)
SMASH TV
That game relieved a lot of stress for my friends and I in high school at the arcade. Also lightened the load of the change in my pocket pretty quickly, too.
Obviously, Microsoft hasn't outsmarted hackers yet who continue to find security vulnerabilities in their products.
What makes them think they will outsmart Open Source developers? We are all people.
For many companies, M$ pays the bills. Simple as that.
Now that's a good one! w00t!
Take automobiles. They can kill, and they can be used for good. The good outweights the bad. What if every motor vehicle had a nuclear reactor in the trunk? If you crashed, an entire neighbourhood got nuked. Would the good outweigh the bad? No way.
I think the good does not outweigh the bad in the case of genome profiling.
I've added your site to my tagline.
True, but they'd have to have REALLY deep pockets to get thousands or millions of peoples' genomes. And there's the small detail of the tissue sample. Not too hard, but again for thousands or millions of people - a huge feat.
Why would someone conceivably want a huge database of genomes? That question almost answers itself. While one person's genome might be useless, aggregating is powerful. Rules could be built using aggregated data... and insurance companies could say "Well, Mr. Smith, our report shows you deviate by +0.53 from the standard norm for this gene. We won't be able to insure you, I'm afraid."
And, as I have said, the best part is that these rich bastards will be footing the bill! Glorious.
Almost, but not quite. What about a CDR tax? They have one in Canada IIRC.
Do you know how bacteria grows? It starts with one cell. That one splits - now there are two. Those split, then there are 4..8..16..32..64... ...millions... ...billions...
Hundreds of Slashdot folk can balloon out pretty quick, given that word of mouth is still the most powerful form of advertising.
Nice attempt at marginalizing the Slashdot crowd... and better luck next time.
What does someone's style of pant have to do with their intelligence? Gimme a break.
That's neat. If you charge for a service, people line up for it.
If the government mandated that you had to let them figure out your genome, people would scream.
Are these millionaires naive enough to think that a copy of their data will not be kept somewhere?
CleanFlicks is merely providing a service. They are removing stuff from movies that you might not want to see. If you want to see the full-length movie with all its gory detail, you are always free to go somewhere else. So what's the problem? Why is it that people fight so blindly for what helps to corrupt our minds in the name of freedom. Let those who want to clean up their lives have a fair shot at doing it.
I had a cable modem for about three years, and DSL for about a year. Now, unbelievably almost, I'm back to dialup. Why? Because I'm tired of being treated like a piece of dirt by PacBell. I'm tired of companies blaming p2p users for using too much bandwidth. Like hey, do you want me to have high speed access or not? And 50 bucks a month adds up pretty quick, so I've saved a few hundred dollars already and spent it on other, better things.
I also spend less time surfing the net and more time coding which is great. Less distractions. Before I was checking my email every 15 minutes and all the news just because I could. Friggen addiction man.