On the web, privacy needs to be protected more then it does in 'meat space'
Actualy, privacy needs more thought on the web than it does in meat space, not more protection. We are just more used to protecting privacy in meat space. For example, I hardly ever leave my house without wearing pants.
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Slashdot has no central authority?
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Brett says the "Slashdot effect" is the result of many individual decisions, and it is. But he goes on to say there is no central authority to decide, and that ignores the fact that CmdrTaco has the absolute power to decide what the Slashdot effect is going to hit. He can't make anybody do anything, but he's a smart guy, he knows (more or less) what will happen when he picks an article. This is central authority in a benign form.
Oh, and those who think herding cats is hard have apparently never wielded the awesome power of the canopener.
is about the only practical way to do anything significant to the orbit of a comet.
If the comet has a lot of high-vapor-pressure stuff (methane, water, frozen hydrogen, very small rocks...) a big black tarp set up just right might have interesting effects...
Some of us are simply examining the re-negotiation, and deciding that, unlike the original deal we agreed to in '96, this one isn't mutualy beneficial.
In particular, the liability parts are a problem. Yahoo's management may have asked the lawyers for "ya can't sue us for what somebody puts on a site, sue the bozo what put it there" but the "contract" says something a bit more expensive. In theory, some loon could sue them for the subliminal messages said loon claims I put in my page, Yahoo could hire the OJ dream team to tell the loon "OK, you win, here's a million dollars," and then I'd have to pay Yahoo a mill, plus the cost of the lawyers. I'm sure they wouldn't do that, but I don't think I should agree to it.
And, no, they probably don't want to do anything beyond what is expected of a web host, but the way the "contract" is written, they have the right to.
Now, I can easily agree to what I think Yahoo actualy wants, but I don't think I can afford what the contract says.
It never was free. It was a deal that was mutualy beneficial. There is a big difference between being a beggar and taking someone up on an offer.
Still, I'm kind of sorry to have to bow out. It was fun, and I learned quite a bit. I used the site to learn how to build web sites, and that is now the main focus of my job.
I think I'll leave the site as it is for a while and see how things shake out. I won't agree to the terms as they are now, but they may change soon.
By the way - the subliminal messages are designed to turn red-blooded God fearing Anonymous Cowards into pie in the sky communist liberals who spend all their time in a ficticious digital domain. Making them gay is just a side effect.
I don't, in general, like offensive language. Boring. Usualy it is a cheap way to get a laugh out of little boys and a rise out of everybody else. I've outgrown both enjoying it and being upset by it.
But I do enjoy SP. Haven't seen the movie yet. Plan to.
Jon Katz has kind of a Time style. Good, bad, whatever. He writes like that, and it seems to work for him. It annoys some people. I'm not a big fan of the style (one reason why I don't read Time anymore) but there are worse styles.
Jon's content is rather different, though. He tends to have more to say, and his articles tend to show more thought and insight than the average Time article.
By using the Time style, he gains a certain credibility with the un-geek community. And that is a good thing, sometimes. In particular, his hellmouth series brought a tiny amount of balance (I'm picturing a mouse leaning into the wind on a sailboat) to the whole Columbine media phenomenon.
I'm planning on taking my kids to see South Park. My son and I don't get along all that well (no big conflict, we just don't have much in common and get on each other's nerves) and one of the things we do together is watch the cartoon every week.
I'll continue to read Jon's articles. If they bother you, don't read them.
Is more like the storage capacity of each register. The research (dang, I wish I had the URL handy, guy's name is Miller) indicates that a person can deal with about 7 positions on any one-dimensional scale. Seven levels of gray-scale, for example. (But we notice relationships, so it often takes more than that to represent an image.) If you show someone a gray card, and then a set of gray cards, the person will usualy be able to find the matching card if there are seven or fewer cards, but usualy fail if there are more than seven.
The surprising part is that the same experiment with tones that vary by frequency only gives about seven, and so does the version where the volume varies.
But there are multiple "registers". If you vary the tone and the volume, the subject can distinguish more than seven sounds.
Having been to the zoo recently, I'd have to disagree, unless the maggots are a big factor (the zoo people clean up too fast). The aroma of Penguin droppings dominated by herring.
Linux smells like hot plastic. At least that's the change in the way my computer room smelled after I installed it. But then I realized my HP DeskJet 500c was overheating because I was leaving the whole system on all the time. With the printer turned off, Linux has a scent too subtle for my defective sinuses to detect.
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Life, Liberty, and the Costitution
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I guess Schoolhouse Rock confused you at some point, all those dancing scrolls look pretty much the same. But some of them are different. The one that includes the "Life, Liberty, and Private Property^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h The Pursuit of Happiness" is essentialy the press release of the revolution, and has no legal weight. Except when those evil liberal Supreme Court justices get into original intent arguments.
But, as for me, I have a bit more trouble with the corruption and local monopoly stuff that go with cable (go to the library and read the microfiche of the news stories surrounding your town's cable negotiations) than I do with the Feds allocating chump change to PBS.
The body is an illusion caused by the way a large number of related microbes congregate.
A rather substantial branch of biology and medicine is based on this point of view.
Still, I'd have to see a bit more evidence that the self-kernal is a mere collection of memes. I suspect that an OS metaphor is closer to the truth: there is a kernal, and there are many core components (memes) that are more or less part of the OS, but not part of the kernal. Is the kernal what we feel as conciousness? Idunno. But I suspect that there is a kernal that is not a meme, in that it does not spread from one individual to another.
What is usualy considered a meme is a more optional item. Maybe an important one like "in this civilization, we usualy wear clothes in public" or "gravel is not food". But we can imagine a person not harboring such a meme, at least for a while. Fundimental items like "breathing once in a while is good for your health" are typicaly not considered memes. And I suspect that the foundation of conciousness is one of those fundimental items. Things like internal dialog, the mind movie, and the self-symbol might be memes, though.
You can't - the numbers aren't in. I've contacted my broker, and I'll be doing the fundimentals on RedHat when they are available. It may be a great investment. Or maybe not. The information just isn't there yet.
I agree that tech stocks look over-valued at this point. And quite a few are pure hype. But RedHat has a good product, good developement, and good exposure. So unless the price is too high or the problems exposed when the stock goes public (there are always problems) are severe, this might be a good one.
Slashdot Mirror
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Brett says the "Slashdot effect" is the result of many individual decisions, and it is. But he goes on to say there is no central authority to decide, and that ignores the fact that CmdrTaco has the absolute power to decide what the Slashdot effect is going to hit. He can't make anybody do anything, but he's a smart guy, he knows (more or less) what will happen when he picks an article. This is central authority in a benign form.
Oh, and those who think herding cats is hard have apparently never wielded the awesome power of the canopener.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
"Good" as in "Good Beer" or as in "Good Speech"?
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
is about the only practical way to do anything significant to the orbit of a comet.
If the comet has a lot of high-vapor-pressure stuff (methane, water, frozen hydrogen, very small rocks...) a big black tarp set up just right might have interesting effects...
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Some of us are simply examining the re-negotiation, and deciding that, unlike the original deal we agreed to in '96, this one isn't mutualy beneficial.
In particular, the liability parts are a problem. Yahoo's management may have asked the lawyers for "ya can't sue us for what somebody puts on a site, sue the bozo what put it there" but the "contract" says something a bit more expensive. In theory, some loon could sue them for the subliminal messages said loon claims I put in my page, Yahoo could hire the OJ dream team to tell the loon "OK, you win, here's a million dollars," and then I'd have to pay Yahoo a mill, plus the cost of the lawyers. I'm sure they wouldn't do that, but I don't think I should agree to it.
And, no, they probably don't want to do anything beyond what is expected of a web host, but the way the "contract" is written, they have the right to.
Now, I can easily agree to what I think Yahoo actualy wants, but I don't think I can afford what the contract says.
It never was free. It was a deal that was mutualy beneficial. There is a big difference between being a beggar and taking someone up on an offer.
Still, I'm kind of sorry to have to bow out. It was fun, and I learned quite a bit. I used the site to learn how to build web sites, and that is now the main focus of my job.
I think I'll leave the site as it is for a while and see how things shake out. I won't agree to the terms as they are now, but they may change soon.
By the way - the subliminal messages are designed to turn red-blooded God fearing Anonymous Cowards into pie in the sky communist liberals who spend all their time in a ficticious digital domain. Making them gay is just a side effect.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Yes.
I'm 38.
I don't, in general, like offensive language. Boring. Usualy it is a cheap way to get a laugh out of little boys and a rise out of everybody else. I've outgrown both enjoying it and being upset by it.
But I do enjoy SP. Haven't seen the movie yet. Plan to.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Jon Katz has kind of a Time style. Good, bad, whatever. He writes like that, and it seems to work for him. It annoys some people. I'm not a big fan of the style (one reason why I don't read Time anymore) but there are worse styles.
Jon's content is rather different, though. He tends to have more to say, and his articles tend to show more thought and insight than the average Time article.
By using the Time style, he gains a certain credibility with the un-geek community. And that is a good thing, sometimes. In particular, his hellmouth series brought a tiny amount of balance (I'm picturing a mouse leaning into the wind on a sailboat) to the whole Columbine media phenomenon.
I'm planning on taking my kids to see South Park. My son and I don't get along all that well (no big conflict, we just don't have much in common and get on each other's nerves) and one of the things we do together is watch the cartoon every week.
I'll continue to read Jon's articles. If they bother you, don't read them.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
The evolution system can be a stripped-down version of the game. For example, there is no need to render graphics while evolving monsters.
On the other hand, evolving against human oponents would be best...
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Is more like the storage capacity of each register. The research (dang, I wish I had the URL handy, guy's name is Miller) indicates that a person can deal with about 7 positions on any one-dimensional scale. Seven levels of gray-scale, for example. (But we notice relationships, so it often takes more than that to represent an image.) If you show someone a gray card, and then a set of gray cards, the person will usualy be able to find the matching card if there are seven or fewer cards, but usualy fail if there are more than seven.
The surprising part is that the same experiment with tones that vary by frequency only gives about seven, and so does the version where the volume varies.
But there are multiple "registers". If you vary the tone and the volume, the subject can distinguish more than seven sounds.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Having been to the zoo recently, I'd have to disagree, unless the maggots are a big factor (the zoo people clean up too fast). The aroma of Penguin droppings dominated by herring.
Linux smells like hot plastic. At least that's the change in the way my computer room smelled after I installed it. But then I realized my HP DeskJet 500c was overheating because I was leaving the whole system on all the time. With the printer turned off, Linux has a scent too subtle for my defective sinuses to detect.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
I guess Schoolhouse Rock confused you at some point, all those dancing scrolls look pretty much the same. But some of them are different. The one that includes the "Life, Liberty, and Private Property^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h The Pursuit of Happiness" is essentialy the press release of the revolution, and has no legal weight. Except when those evil liberal Supreme Court justices get into original intent arguments.
But, as for me, I have a bit more trouble with the corruption and local monopoly stuff that go with cable (go to the library and read the microfiche of the news stories surrounding your town's cable negotiations) than I do with the Feds allocating chump change to PBS.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
I wish I had a comment...
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
The body is an illusion caused by the way a large number of related microbes congregate.
A rather substantial branch of biology and medicine is based on this point of view.
Still, I'd have to see a bit more evidence that the self-kernal is a mere collection of memes. I suspect that an OS metaphor is closer to the truth: there is a kernal, and there are many core components (memes) that are more or less part of the OS, but not part of the kernal. Is the kernal what we feel as conciousness? Idunno. But I suspect that there is a kernal that is not a meme, in that it does not spread from one individual to another.
What is usualy considered a meme is a more optional item. Maybe an important one like "in this civilization, we usualy wear clothes in public" or "gravel is not food". But we can imagine a person not harboring such a meme, at least for a while. Fundimental items like "breathing once in a while is good for your health" are typicaly not considered memes. And I suspect that the foundation of conciousness is one of those fundimental items. Things like internal dialog, the mind movie, and the self-symbol might be memes, though.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
You can't - the numbers aren't in.
I've contacted my broker, and I'll be doing the fundimentals on RedHat when they are available. It may be a great investment. Or maybe not. The information just isn't there yet.
I agree that tech stocks look over-valued at this point. And quite a few are pure hype. But RedHat has a good product, good developement, and good exposure. So unless the price is too high or the problems exposed when the stock goes public (there are always problems) are severe, this might be a good one.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
Depending on the IP rights claimed by the vendor, bootlegging the puppy (and I do mean puppy) might be illegal.
I've got a plant on my pool deck that came with a tag saying it is illegal to propagate it.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer