I want to agree. I really do, but this isn't the 1800's. You can't just go off into the mountains to stay out of society's way. To live in this Brave New World you must---not can or ought, but must---participate in the global information infrastructure. In doing so, you will leave a trail. In other words, we've crafted a world wherein a person, to live as normal, must give up that privacy that was expectable in generations past. You must do these things to compete with others in the same community. In that regard, it is absolutely incumbent upon us all to both recognize that loss of privacy and do what we can to abate it.
Privacy is paramount. It is a needed precursor to the freedom of speech and the press, against illegal search and seizure, or the right to think as we please without persecution.
I want to beleive you when you say we can just opt out of such things---that they are optional---but the reality is that we can't and they aren't. Want to turn in a paper for homework? Some school insist that you do so electronically in MS Word. Want to call your mom? Every call is now tracked and stored. Want to protest City Hall? Your face is captured forever on digital film by the block cameras. I want to beleive you, but I can't.
In the face of these threats to our freedoms and rights, we must stand resolute and unwavering. We must always do all we can to err on the side of freedom. The battle for privacy is part of that fight.
I, for one, do NOT welcome my new privacy invading, click tracking, camera-watching overlords.
Your premise doesn't validate your conclusion. It's true that voting records that leave the polls are a bad idea, but that does not mean paper ballots don't solve anything.
How about a paper ballot that is printed and then fed into a machine---the ballot having a bar code and a human readable record. The machine counts the bar code results. In cases of a recount, the humans read the other. The human who voted can verify the human readable portion is valid and thus in a recount (even if the bar code count is hacked) the correct vote will be tallied. This raises the bar on the effort required to cheat in an election.
It's not hard. This isn't rocket science, for God's sake. I could write the damned softare in a weekend. That's what's so shameful about this whole situation.
...now that you've explained how many gallons of electricity it is, could also please give us the equivalent Libraries of Congress of electricity? It seems useful somehow.;-)
It's because the F14 was designed for intercept missions. The F18 for bombing. The F18 fits our model of modern warfare better, not to mention that with recent improvements in surface-to-air and air-to-air missile tech, having a plane specializing in intercept missions was just unneeded.
I just figured some in the/. crowd might care to know.
how about funding research into diseases that affect people at a young age - heart disease, obesity, depression - instead of keeping people alive longer than nature intends?
How about not criticizing people for failing to offer their charity in a way not approved by Your Holiness? I for one, would like the option of living for as long as I please to, thank you very much. Are the needs of the elderly less worthy than the needs of the young?
And while we're at it, how about not suggesting that nature "intends" anything. That's just weird and lame.
And I think I'm actually being kind here, calling the average American biased.
You're not. You're being mildly passive-aggressive, insulting, and blinding yourself to reality in the process. Let me help (see, that's real passive-aggressive behavior!):
Now, which part of the above is horribly bad and oppressive?
The part you chose to drop where it says "undermine social ethics or the fine cultural traditions of the Chinese nation [and] include other content banned by Chinese laws and administrative regulations." Those are broad and intentionally subjective criteria that will allow them to censor at will.
Look, I am American. I have a great personal affection for China for reasons made clear here. I've been there. The people are wonderful. The land is beautiful. Even most people in the government are helpful and kind. But I'm not stupid or blind. They have a small core in their government that are strongly opposed to the basics of freedom and the national laws are written such that those people have essentially free reign to suppress said freedom without breaking any rules. I have confidence that they will come out in the end as a strong and healthy country, but right now they have serious problems. Pretending the U.S.'s problems are anything but minor in comparison is disgenious at best. In china, a cab driver stopped speaking to me when he thought he'd "crossed a line" and might get in trouble with the government about it. A chinese man with in the cab with us and the driver couldn't be certain he wouldn't get turned in. We were talking about chinese religions. I can't stress enough, you will not see that happen in a cab in the U.S., for instance. The scope and nature of our problems are worlds apart.
they want you to be bonded for $5,000,000 dollars, to cover any legal costs in case the site you create isn't 508 compliant (this is not outlanding at all, this is common practice for building contracters).... Why don't you check out the costs that building contractors have to pay to be bonded, and tell me if you have a problem paying for that kind of thing out of your pocket? Let me save you the trouble of looking it up... most likely, you aren't going to be able to afford to be bonded, and you won't be able to do freelance or independant contracting working building websites.
That's the trouble with talking about stuff you have no experience with. I am an independant consultant. I am insurance for $2 million. If I need to upgrade to $5 million, I can. It's not as expensive as building contractor insurance because poeple don't die if I fail to do my job right. In fact, it's quite cheap.
You really should do some basic research before you talk about these things. I have done my homework. I have a lawyer and an accountant on retainer. I have guys in the field under me. I've been in business for a while. I've done HIPPA healthcare work, work on the new nuclear attack sub, work on call centers, and dozens of other industry-specific areas. I'm perfectly aware of what is expected on me legally and professionally.
Yes, you can have a 508 compliant site. It's not hard. As for the government expecting it, well, they have been for physical stores for a while now, so why not requirte them for online stores? Beleive it or not, there is a benefit and a net community good in making sure the handicapped can participate in our society as equals. No one is asking us to make music deaf-accessible or any of the other assinine examples people have thrown around in this thread. We're just saying do the minimal work needed to make sure as many people as possible can use your site.
Finally, let me add that your example is invalid. If you aren't 508 compliant and are supposed to be and if someone reports you, the gov will ping you to fix it first. They don't jump right to lawsuit unless you say "no". Scaremongering is bad practice. You shouldn't do it.
Micro$oft Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML 1.1
Yes. It craps the bed trying to parse the XHTML 1.1 dtd. There are ways around that, however. It isn't that IE doesn't support XHTML 1.1, it's that IE doesn't support validating XHTML 1.1. Those are very different problems. You can push XHTML 1.1 to an IE browser without trouble with some simple XSL to tell it to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict for just IE. Leaves all the XHTML intact, allows all/real/ browsers unscatched by IE's nonsense, and even let's IE use XHTML 1.1 code without too much fuss, though IE will think it is seeing 1.0 Strict.
I've done it. It works. I should post some details on my (non-XHTML 1.1 compliant ) blog or something.:)
I find it absolutely hilarious that your site doesn't validate as XHTML 1.0 compliant with all of your evangelical enthusiasm for it in your post.
What developers do for themselves rarely matches what they consider best practices for their job. You'll wanna get used to that. I can and do write complain sites professionally, and at the same time couldn't muster less concern for going back to redo my site that way now.
But also notice that my site plays nice with screen readers anyway, so the reasons to redo the site are minimal right now.
I see a lot of comments lambasting the lawsuit, but I have to say I don't see the problem.
Making a site 508 compliant is not really all that hard and it essentially consists of making sure your site validates as XHTML 1.0 (preferably 1.0 Strict) or even better, XHTML 1.1. Do that and you are about 90% of the way there. The rest consists of actually knowing html and using it correctly. Learn to use labels, fieldsets, and other html elements that have been largely ignored, despite being quite useful. Actually use the alt tags for images of consequence. In other words, if you've designed a site that complies with web standards, you have little to worry about with this lawsuit. If you haven't, then now you know why we have and push standards. Consider it a lesson learned and move forward a wiser developer.
The only downside to writing a site to be 508 compliant is that AJAX must be used carefully. Screen readers still don't detect client-side content changes well, so client-side dynamic content is slightly more limited, requiring a few more postbacks that you would normally use. But if you know what you are doing, those sorts of "intrusions" to your normal programming work are almost inconsequential. One caveat: Don't trust that Visual Studio 2005 and IIS will give you compliant code, even if they say they will. They won't.
You need to know a little something about real web development but the end your site will be better, cleaner, and more easily maintainable. I've done it. It's ain't that hard.
Now we in the open source world can start benefitting from all those ironclad security techniques that have heretofore beeen the sole purvue of Microsoft's security team!
Pretty soon our stuff will be almost as secure as Windows!
Now if only we could only get a defection from whomever it is at Microsoft that is in charge of their world reknown OS stability....
If they can get the information from other places, why are you concerned if they come to class or not? As long as they are learning, your job is done.
Because there is a difference between education and training. They may pass the tests by watching video of the lectures and skimming the reading, but they will not have been educated at all. Education is a communal process. Training can be gotten from a CDROM. College is about the former and watching videos encourages the latter.
But that fact that you replied as you did suggests that you don't get that difference and may never.
There's a reason there are anti-discrimination laws in the US, and yes, age IS one of the protected factors.
This story is from the U.K., not the U.S. In the U.S., this company would be in hot water for making such an assinine policy. In the U.K., they are free to discriminate in this way to their heart's content.
That said, I agree with you. As a U.S. citizen (is it still cool to admit that publicly?), I am so glad we have the antidiscrimination laws in place that we do. We've gotten a lot of flak recently over the things we've done wrong, but it's nice to be reminded now and again about the things we do right.
well, free markets have a way of fixing problems like that. I say... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
What free market? We are talking about telecoms here, not widget manufacturers. The telecoms exist outside the free market. They are government buttressed corporations with a legally acknowledged leg up on all competitors...enforced by the Local, State, and Federal governments.
If this were a free market I'd agree with you, but it isn't. Given their priviledged position, it is incumbent upon them to accept the minimal extra oversight that is imposed on them. In short, they play by different rules than this free market you are talking about.
Not to mention that they are on record as saying they intend to leverage their priviledged place in the infrastructure marketplace to gain a priviledged position in the internet services marketplace.
Not that it justifies a firebombing at all, but what exactly was he doing to get the activists so upset? I know many of them can be irrational, but they do tend to concentrate efforts on the worst offenders in general.
I'm not siding with them at all, but I am curious as to what he was doing in his labs that made him such a strong target. Is it possible that he was being overzealous in his experimentation? I'm no fan of PETA, but there is a limit to the amount of cruelty I think should be visited on animals for our benefit. What were his supposed "crimes"?
It's not about stem cells, see? Or rather, it is but it's not how they're obtained...That's just a nice straw man that they've been holding up (Your godless science is eating our unborn babies!).
I dunno about that but your mindless rant is eating our logical discourse. It most certainly is about how they are obtained for most of us who have a problem with embryonic stem cell research. I look forward to the advances that can be made with stem cells that were harvested without a loss to human life. So do most people who are against it that I know. Will there still be some on the fringe who continue to complain? Sure, but not the teeming throng you've villified in your rant here.
Seriously, how the hell are we supposed progress as a community if we can't even have civil discourse on the topic? Try a little understanding of your opponent's opinions next time. It'll carry you farther and make you damn bit more likely to be somewhat correct.
What they're really scared of is all the stuff that they see stem cells leading to.... It's a whole new bio-medical can of worms, and it scares the hell out of them.
Yeah, oh, I'm so very scared.:-| See, this is what I mean. Quit with the stereotyping of those who don't agree with you. It's medieval-stupid. It's the very sort of ignorance that you seem to despise in your opponents on this issue.
Fortunately, most people are in favor of stem cell research, so it's unlikely the fundies will be able to halt it forever.
For the record, I happen to think you may be right, but this is just your opinion. What study have you read (prior to reading my reply here!) that told you that most people favor it? Again, I think you are right, but I've never seen a valid study done on the subject. I've seen opinion polls that show both biases. That's all.
Your post was marked "Interesting". Well, at least it wasn't called "Insightful" becuase that would've been depressing.:(
Is it really? I think the problem is that we want it to be.
You had me.:) I'd almost clicked to the next story, content that you'd made a comment that put this in perspective, but something nagged at the back of my head. In the end, I think I have to disagree this time. Let me explain.
Rock would not exist withoug electric guitar, tape recorder and analog amplifier. Could Lester Bangs fix a broken tape recorder? Was he a great critic because he understood how a guitar works? No. He wrote about rock music as a cultural phenomenon, not a technological one.
I agree. In the past, however, the technology was an enabler/amplifier of culture. The printing press took what already existed and brought it to everyone. The tape recorder did the same. No longer did you have to be rich to do your own recording. But this is a different world.
Technology is no longer the background noise of our culture. It is ingrained in our culture. It is a character in the play of our lives. And it is, unlike previous advances, essentially inscrutable.
Anyone could apprehend in a casual conversation the idea of the printing press---ink and letters and all that. They understood books already. This was just a new way to make them cheaper and easier. Same with the electric guitar and the tape recorder. They knew what music was and they knew this was just a new way to amplify and record it.
But today? Today we don't just have easiler ways of doing older things. We have new things. Instead of trying to comprehend ink pressed to page, the populus is asked to get the idea of baysian filters and tunneling privacy protocols and URIs (and they need to know them well enough to know a good one from a bad one!). These sorts of things are transforming culture in a way that has no/technological/ precedent. Add to that a general cultural move to a post-modernist worldview and you have a lot of change in a short time.
I think it is fair to say that people cannot easily get this, cannot easily digest the new world that lay ahead still. When we still have educated people talking about the Internet as a series of tubes and people mass mailing warnings about Bill Gates offering rewards for numbers of emails sent, we can know for certain that the culture has chabged and the majority of people in it don't understand the changes.
The real news for many of us about the AMD price cuts is extremely cheap CPU upgrades for our 939 socket systems. I have an AMD 3800+ and 3400+. Both are 939 and both mobos allow me to move up to one of the spiffy new dual core chips. With the new price cuts, I can upgrade my system to a dual core chip--each seperate core faster than my current single core CPU---for the price of a cheap-to-average video card. And there are a lot of AMD 939 users out there.
That's the real news, not AMD missing the pricemark by 4%.
So, I wonder if I can get this post modded up by being the first person to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a slashdot thread properly and in context?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm calling bullshit on this one.
I want to agree. I really do, but this isn't the 1800's. You can't just go off into the mountains to stay out of society's way. To live in this Brave New World you must---not can or ought, but must---participate in the global information infrastructure. In doing so, you will leave a trail. In other words, we've crafted a world wherein a person, to live as normal, must give up that privacy that was expectable in generations past. You must do these things to compete with others in the same community. In that regard, it is absolutely incumbent upon us all to both recognize that loss of privacy and do what we can to abate it.
Privacy is paramount. It is a needed precursor to the freedom of speech and the press, against illegal search and seizure, or the right to think as we please without persecution.
I want to beleive you when you say we can just opt out of such things---that they are optional---but the reality is that we can't and they aren't. Want to turn in a paper for homework? Some school insist that you do so electronically in MS Word. Want to call your mom? Every call is now tracked and stored. Want to protest City Hall? Your face is captured forever on digital film by the block cameras. I want to beleive you, but I can't.
In the face of these threats to our freedoms and rights, we must stand resolute and unwavering. We must always do all we can to err on the side of freedom. The battle for privacy is part of that fight.
I, for one, do NOT welcome my new privacy invading, click tracking, camera-watching overlords.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Your premise doesn't validate your conclusion. It's true that voting records that leave the polls are a bad idea, but that does not mean paper ballots don't solve anything.
How about a paper ballot that is printed and then fed into a machine---the ballot having a bar code and a human readable record. The machine counts the bar code results. In cases of a recount, the humans read the other. The human who voted can verify the human readable portion is valid and thus in a recount (even if the bar code count is hacked) the correct vote will be tallied. This raises the bar on the effort required to cheat in an election.
It's not hard. This isn't rocket science, for God's sake. I could write the damned softare in a weekend. That's what's so shameful about this whole situation.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
...now that you've explained how many gallons of electricity it is, could also please give us the equivalent Libraries of Congress of electricity? It seems useful somehow. ;-)
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
It's because the F14 was designed for intercept missions. The F18 for bombing. The F18 fits our model of modern warfare better, not to mention that with recent improvements in surface-to-air and air-to-air missile tech, having a plane specializing in intercept missions was just unneeded.
/. crowd might care to know.
I just figured some in the
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
How about not criticizing people for failing to offer their charity in a way not approved by Your Holiness? I for one, would like the option of living for as long as I please to, thank you very much. Are the needs of the elderly less worthy than the needs of the young?
And while we're at it, how about not suggesting that nature "intends" anything. That's just weird and lame.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Bah! I won't upgrade again until they can give me a screen with Planck density resolution. Anything between my current 9 foot High Def TV and that is a waste of my time.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
You're not. You're being mildly passive-aggressive, insulting, and blinding yourself to reality in the process. Let me help (see, that's real passive-aggressive behavior!):
The part you chose to drop where it says "undermine social ethics or the fine cultural traditions of the Chinese nation [and] include other content banned by Chinese laws and administrative regulations." Those are broad and intentionally subjective criteria that will allow them to censor at will.
Look, I am American. I have a great personal affection for China for reasons made clear here. I've been there. The people are wonderful. The land is beautiful. Even most people in the government are helpful and kind. But I'm not stupid or blind. They have a small core in their government that are strongly opposed to the basics of freedom and the national laws are written such that those people have essentially free reign to suppress said freedom without breaking any rules. I have confidence that they will come out in the end as a strong and healthy country, but right now they have serious problems. Pretending the U.S.'s problems are anything but minor in comparison is disgenious at best. In china, a cab driver stopped speaking to me when he thought he'd "crossed a line" and might get in trouble with the government about it. A chinese man with in the cab with us and the driver couldn't be certain he wouldn't get turned in. We were talking about chinese religions. I can't stress enough, you will not see that happen in a cab in the U.S., for instance. The scope and nature of our problems are worlds apart.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
That's the trouble with talking about stuff you have no experience with. I am an independant consultant. I am insurance for $2 million. If I need to upgrade to $5 million, I can. It's not as expensive as building contractor insurance because poeple don't die if I fail to do my job right. In fact, it's quite cheap.
You really should do some basic research before you talk about these things. I have done my homework. I have a lawyer and an accountant on retainer. I have guys in the field under me. I've been in business for a while. I've done HIPPA healthcare work, work on the new nuclear attack sub, work on call centers, and dozens of other industry-specific areas. I'm perfectly aware of what is expected on me legally and professionally.
Yes, you can have a 508 compliant site. It's not hard. As for the government expecting it, well, they have been for physical stores for a while now, so why not requirte them for online stores? Beleive it or not, there is a benefit and a net community good in making sure the handicapped can participate in our society as equals. No one is asking us to make music deaf-accessible or any of the other assinine examples people have thrown around in this thread. We're just saying do the minimal work needed to make sure as many people as possible can use your site.
Finally, let me add that your example is invalid. If you aren't 508 compliant and are supposed to be and if someone reports you, the gov will ping you to fix it first. They don't jump right to lawsuit unless you say "no". Scaremongering is bad practice. You shouldn't do it.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Yes. It craps the bed trying to parse the XHTML 1.1 dtd. There are ways around that, however. It isn't that IE doesn't support XHTML 1.1, it's that IE doesn't support validating XHTML 1.1. Those are very different problems. You can push XHTML 1.1 to an IE browser without trouble with some simple XSL to tell it to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict for just IE. Leaves all the XHTML intact, allows all
I've done it. It works. I should post some details on my (non-XHTML 1.1 compliant ) blog or something.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
What developers do for themselves rarely matches what they consider best practices for their job. You'll wanna get used to that. I can and do write complain sites professionally, and at the same time couldn't muster less concern for going back to redo my site that way now.
But also notice that my site plays nice with screen readers anyway, so the reasons to redo the site are minimal right now.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
I see a lot of comments lambasting the lawsuit, but I have to say I don't see the problem.
Making a site 508 compliant is not really all that hard and it essentially consists of making sure your site validates as XHTML 1.0 (preferably 1.0 Strict) or even better, XHTML 1.1. Do that and you are about 90% of the way there. The rest consists of actually knowing html and using it correctly. Learn to use labels, fieldsets, and other html elements that have been largely ignored, despite being quite useful. Actually use the alt tags for images of consequence. In other words, if you've designed a site that complies with web standards, you have little to worry about with this lawsuit. If you haven't, then now you know why we have and push standards. Consider it a lesson learned and move forward a wiser developer.
The only downside to writing a site to be 508 compliant is that AJAX must be used carefully. Screen readers still don't detect client-side content changes well, so client-side dynamic content is slightly more limited, requiring a few more postbacks that you would normally use. But if you know what you are doing, those sorts of "intrusions" to your normal programming work are almost inconsequential. One caveat: Don't trust that Visual Studio 2005 and IIS will give you compliant code, even if they say they will. They won't.
You need to know a little something about real web development but the end your site will be better, cleaner, and more easily maintainable. I've done it. It's ain't that hard.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Now we in the open source world can start benefitting from all those ironclad security techniques that have heretofore beeen the sole purvue of Microsoft's security team!
Pretty soon our stuff will be almost as secure as Windows!
Now if only we could only get a defection from whomever it is at Microsoft that is in charge of their world reknown OS stability....
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Because there is a difference between education and training. They may pass the tests by watching video of the lectures and skimming the reading, but they will not have been educated at all. Education is a communal process. Training can be gotten from a CDROM. College is about the former and watching videos encourages the latter.
But that fact that you replied as you did suggests that you don't get that difference and may never.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
This story is from the U.K., not the U.S. In the U.S., this company would be in hot water for making such an assinine policy. In the U.K., they are free to discriminate in this way to their heart's content.
That said, I agree with you. As a U.S. citizen (is it still cool to admit that publicly?), I am so glad we have the antidiscrimination laws in place that we do. We've gotten a lot of flak recently over the things we've done wrong, but it's nice to be reminded now and again about the things we do right.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
What free market? We are talking about telecoms here, not widget manufacturers. The telecoms exist outside the free market. They are government buttressed corporations with a legally acknowledged leg up on all competitors...enforced by the Local, State, and Federal governments.
If this were a free market I'd agree with you, but it isn't. Given their priviledged position, it is incumbent upon them to accept the minimal extra oversight that is imposed on them. In short, they play by different rules than this free market you are talking about.
Not to mention that they are on record as saying they intend to leverage their priviledged place in the infrastructure marketplace to gain a priviledged position in the internet services marketplace.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Not that it justifies a firebombing at all, but what exactly was he doing to get the activists so upset? I know many of them can be irrational, but they do tend to concentrate efforts on the worst offenders in general.
I'm not siding with them at all, but I am curious as to what he was doing in his labs that made him such a strong target. Is it possible that he was being overzealous in his experimentation? I'm no fan of PETA, but there is a limit to the amount of cruelty I think should be visited on animals for our benefit. What were his supposed "crimes"?
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Does it use Blue Ray or HD-DVD?
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
I dunno about that but your mindless rant is eating our logical discourse. It most certainly is about how they are obtained for most of us who have a problem with embryonic stem cell research. I look forward to the advances that can be made with stem cells that were harvested without a loss to human life. So do most people who are against it that I know. Will there still be some on the fringe who continue to complain? Sure, but not the teeming throng you've villified in your rant here.
Seriously, how the hell are we supposed progress as a community if we can't even have civil discourse on the topic? Try a little understanding of your opponent's opinions next time. It'll carry you farther and make you damn bit more likely to be somewhat correct.
Yeah, oh, I'm so very scared.
For the record, I happen to think you may be right, but this is just your opinion. What study have you read (prior to reading my reply here!) that told you that most people favor it? Again, I think you are right, but I've never seen a valid study done on the subject. I've seen opinion polls that show both biases. That's all.
Your post was marked "Interesting". Well, at least it wasn't called "Insightful" becuase that would've been depressing.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
You had me.
I agree. In the past, however, the technology was an enabler/amplifier of culture. The printing press took what already existed and brought it to everyone. The tape recorder did the same. No longer did you have to be rich to do your own recording. But this is a different world.
Technology is no longer the background noise of our culture. It is ingrained in our culture. It is a character in the play of our lives. And it is, unlike previous advances, essentially inscrutable.
Anyone could apprehend in a casual conversation the idea of the printing press---ink and letters and all that. They understood books already. This was just a new way to make them cheaper and easier. Same with the electric guitar and the tape recorder. They knew what music was and they knew this was just a new way to amplify and record it.
But today? Today we don't just have easiler ways of doing older things. We have new things. Instead of trying to comprehend ink pressed to page, the populus is asked to get the idea of baysian filters and tunneling privacy protocols and URIs (and they need to know them well enough to know a good one from a bad one!). These sorts of things are transforming culture in a way that has no
I think it is fair to say that people cannot easily get this, cannot easily digest the new world that lay ahead still. When we still have educated people talking about the Internet as a series of tubes and people mass mailing warnings about Bill Gates offering rewards for numbers of emails sent, we can know for certain that the culture has chabged and the majority of people in it don't understand the changes.
Huxley was right. It's a Brave New World.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
I can already see your IM Client choking on the "Fr1st iM p0st" storm that is sure to follow.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
The real news for many of us about the AMD price cuts is extremely cheap CPU upgrades for our 939 socket systems. I have an AMD 3800+ and 3400+. Both are 939 and both mobos allow me to move up to one of the spiffy new dual core chips. With the new price cuts, I can upgrade my system to a dual core chip--each seperate core faster than my current single core CPU---for the price of a cheap-to-average video card. And there are a lot of AMD 939 users out there.
That's the real news, not AMD missing the pricemark by 4%.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
Slashdot brings people to blogs! :)
-Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
When I look for someone to blame for Botnets, I tend to lay it on Botnet operators. I guess McAfee has a different way of looking at blame.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/
I think I'll wait to see if netcraft can confirm this. I'm still a little gunshy from the whole *BSD thing.
Tom Caudron
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So, I wonder if I can get this post modded up by being the first person to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a slashdot thread properly and in context?
Tom Caudron
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