a claim that marks him for a corporate whore, but it seems that there are some things even whores won't do
Allright, now listen - I hate the CBBLAH & DMCA, etc like everyone else. But, come on now, is it REALLY necassary to call them whores when posting this news to the site? ATTENTION SLASHDOT EDITORS: it doesn't make you look very professional or worthy of respect when you result to cheap tactics like this.
Leave it to people like ME to call them whores but please not on the main page. it just doesn't give us a very solid position to argue from if you result to name-calling on the main page.
I just don't get it. IANAL, BMMI (but my mom is), and it just doens't make sense. This information is posted in the public domain, ok? Now, as long as you give credit it should be fine. An analogy is this: when you are quoting from a book do you have to include the whole fscking book in your quote? No, you don't. As long as you give credit it is fine. The theory being if it is interesting enough they just might buy the book - the same thing should apply to webpages. These people should be jumping for joy they are being linked to especially because they derive numerous benefits - including a higher google rank =). My god, if you can quote sections of newspapers why can't you link to them? Argh. Oh well stupid people shouldn't breed...
One last odd tidbit:
Holger Rosendal, spokesman for the Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association (DNPA)
Holger Rosendal.. Hilary Rosen. I dunno. Coincidence? I think not.
I totally agree. This is remarkable and quite fascinating - the kids just invent words/metaphors for what the computer does and learn it. It is like in the old days when I learned DOS. I had no idea what stuff was called or how anything worked i just figured it out (to get games to work). This is the same type of thing only waayyyy cooler. Man is it just.. I dunno - neat. I say we give these kids an "honorary geek award" from slashdot =). THe only thing that troubled me about the article (and I mean only thing.. man is this cool) is this:
A: There is one experiment that scares me. These children don't know what e-mail is. If I gave them e-mail, I don't know what would happen. I'll probably try it anyway. But remember the stories one used to hear about people finding lost tribes and introducing them to Coca-Cola? I'm really seriously scared about what would happen if suddenly the whole wide world had access to these kids. I don't know who would talk to them for what purpose.
It is kindof sad in todays world that he would be afraid of what somebody would do to these kids but I understand. With all the perverts in the world... well. It just seems sad though that they are missing on a fundamental aspect of the internet because of the (literal) danger it poses to them. Plus, they would probably get spammed to death.
The only other thing I wanted to add is just how interesting it was that they could use the web (Disney's site even!) without really knowing English. I mean, think about it. Go to some Chinese/Japanese/French/Whatever site and try using it. Almost impossible (without the fish) but here these kids have figured out how. And to think we bitch when sites use flash...
I would say the following would be *really* difficult not because of technology which renders such questions moot but just to VISUALIZE and adequatley convey the scope of said project:
Larry Niven's Ringworld -Been proposed many a time but no filmaker has yet to accept the challenge
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars - how do you adequately portray a space elevator? The massive terraforming of a world? How do you convey the SCOPE?
There are probably others but I am kindof lazy right now. You get the point though - any sufficently large hard-to-conceputalize book would do it.
The Burroughs books are pure space opera. Of course the people who did 'The Mummy' can do them justice, they're pretty fluffy already.
I will not disagree with you that they are pure fluff but, then again, so was Star Wars. Would you *really* want the guys who did the Mummy to do Star Wars? Do you think they would turn out the same? Didn't think so. =).
P.S. they would probably make something with a horrid plot, an annoying sidekick that appeals to children, and a long-drawn out 'race'... oh. Right.
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Thanks for clearing that up. You are right - talking about time travel tends to give me massive headaches.
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My favorite part:
The professor and his UConn colleagues plan to build a device to test whether it's possible to transport a subatomic particle, probably a neutron, through time. The energy from a rotating laser beam, Mallett hopes, would warp the space inside the ring of the light so that gravity forces the neutron to rotate sideways. With even more energy, it's possible, he believes, a second neutron would appear. The second particle would be the first one visiting itself from the future.
Hmmm. Ok, fine you MIGHT make the particle disappear but.. umm a couple of problems. How in the heck are you going to get it 'back from the future'? What, is hte particle going to KNOW how to come back? Is it going to have some sort of time machine in the future? This guy sounds like a complete loon.
Time travel *might* be possible but the energies and such involved, well I always thought it would have to involve using a wormhole, i.e. a tear in the fabric of space-time which is what he propeses to do with these 'lasers' (best Dr. Evil voice). IANAP but to create a wormhole requires enormous energies. If I remember A Brief History of Time right, something like a couple of minutes of continous output of our sun to create one, not to mention holding it open. To put it another way - the sum total of all energy used by human civilization. Sure, it's just another engineering problem. Of course, so is a dyson sphere...
Besides, everyone knows that to achieve time-travel you simply go into warp around the sun...
By Doing this you Installantly decrease the resale value of your car by 15-20% as well as it is EXTREMELY ILLEGAL to mess with a car's speedometer. Car dealers are, SHOCK, smarter than you and know when a speedometer has been messed with. What do you want to bet that disconnecting said wire probably set a 'flag' somewhere on that car's computer?
It would be extremeley rare for all the components in the car to be destroyed to such a degree that the manufacturer couldn't find out that it had been modified (not to mention possible witnesses etc). Just think of what survives after aiplanes crash..
However, these are the same arguments that where used long, long ago about other mods to a car - new brakes, suspension, etc. Of course these where easier to detect. I would bet that fairly soon auto manufactures are going to find a way to set a 'flag' somewhere that would alert them to any possible mods a car has had (a little black bock, heavily armored, containing a 16k Flash RAM chip + some sort of protection scheme would do nicely, which BTW, if you decide to mess with you DESERVE to be prosecuted - breach of contract, i.e. warrany. But, in the meantime, you are right - the auto manufactures would/are probably scared of this.
An interesting note: I DOUBT that an encryption system could be effectively implemented on a car. Considering the extra processing overhead this would require to encrypt/decrypt each communication and with response times needing to be in the thousands of a second (at least) I would be very, very suprised if it would be worth their time + cost effective to implement one.
The problem though is that people have to *fight* these things actively for them to fail. This alone makes them effective.. only if someone does something truly outrageous (no n***rs not allowed or something on a billboard in front of their business) will they fight it.
Another thing - how is saying 'no asians/whites/people/women' allowed any different than 'shirt/shoes required'? I don't know, just curious.
The scary thing is yes you could do this - although you would piss people off. you can refuse to sell something to a CUSTOMER for any reason, or no reason. However, you can't refuse to HIRE somebody based on any reason. So yes, you could put a huge sign that says "no homosexuals allowed" and be fine with it - but you owuld still have to HIRE them, note this DOES NOT apply to gov't or any business that recieves Gov't funding. As a matter of fact, in recent years many home owners associations have begin to have bylaws that say, basiclly, if you ain't white, rich, protestant, and meet our standards you can't live here. But, of course, realators can't sell/show houses that are in such home associations so it isn't that widespread of a thing -yet.
In essence, sony can do whatever they want with the compact discs as long as they don't violate existing law (yeah, I think they do but the RIAA doesn't). And think of it this way - if you could get this disc to play in your computer you would be in violation of the DMCA.
And citing homosexuality as a case is bad - in most states in the US it is perfectly OK to discriminate against this, including hiring.
Multi desktops IS something that KDE does well but.. well if you have ever used Solaris you know that the implementation is somewhat lacking. You can actually get programs to allow multiple desktops on windows, my roomate has one, but it hogs resources. Oh, and i despise the KDE 'taskbar'. Waaaaayyyy too cluttered.
Ramping win95 to be better than xp is slighlty impossible and would take quite a bit of effort. Since the kernel is a bastardized version of 16bit/32bit it would require rewriting a whole new kernel - an effort akin to the current linux project. But, you COULD use the source for the win95 interface, which is waaaay better than gnome/kde I don't care what they say, to make linux way better + steal the plug and play code.. which might finally allow real people ot use linux. Which is why I suggested msdos/win 3.1. You might learn something, but probably not enough to hurt ms.
true, but one could argue that MSDOS & win 3.1 don't have ANYTHING to do with the 'modern' verisons of Windows: 2000 & XP which are (supposdly) completely devoid of old dos code.
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc. Don't allow anyone to distibute their own versions, but let people look and submit bug fixes etc. It would not be a huge step, but i'd be a step in gaining people's trust
Of course they make money on them - otherwise they wouldn't make the product. IE is designed to garner market share, to force people to use IE gives ms alot of 'pull' when it comes to the web - in particular designing proprietary protocols that only work with MS products like.Net and ActiveX. MS messenger I'm not to sure on other than this - it gets people a.Net passport which means it will be 'easier' to shove products down their throat - they already have a passport just buy! (same with hotmail).
A more realistic approach would be for microsoft to realase 'old' code - stuff like MS-dos 5.0, or maybe 6.0. Windows 3.1 - products they no longer support. It would be interesting to see what would come of this.
Well now that's interesting, because Orrin Hatch is not happy about what happened to the DMCA he helped to create, and he has NO love for the entertainment industry. This is the guy who has been in support of Napster. I think it is extraordinarily unlikely that he would support this in any way.
Not happy about how the DMCA is being used eh? WTF. He supports Napster yet drafts a bill that destroys any chance of a service like napster ever being used. I think Sen. Hatch has pulled of a nice spin campaign to sway voters. SOmethign like this:
Take Hollywood's/recording industry/software industry's money. Draft/Pass bill
Decry what they are using your bill for. Claim it was never intended for that purpose
Tell all your constiuents you will 'fix' it if you get reelected...
Slashdot Mirror
But the editors are the ones who posted that on the front page. Ergo..
Yes. But the editor was the one who decided to put that on the front page.
a claim that marks him for a corporate whore, but it seems that there are some things even whores won't do
Allright, now listen - I hate the CBBLAH & DMCA, etc like everyone else. But, come on now, is it REALLY necassary to call them whores when posting this news to the site? ATTENTION SLASHDOT EDITORS: it doesn't make you look very professional or worthy of respect when you result to cheap tactics like this.
Leave it to people like ME to call them whores but please not on the main page. it just doesn't give us a very solid position to argue from if you result to name-calling on the main page.
That was being sarcastic.. but anyways.
If you are really upset about how crawlers are indexing your page I suggest you consult, and figure out how to, use robots.txt.
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
I just don't get it. IANAL, BMMI (but my mom is), and it just doens't make sense. This information is posted in the public domain, ok? Now, as long as you give credit it should be fine. An analogy is this: when you are quoting from a book do you have to include the whole fscking book in your quote? No, you don't. As long as you give credit it is fine. The theory being if it is interesting enough they just might buy the book - the same thing should apply to webpages. These people should be jumping for joy they are being linked to especially because they derive numerous benefits - including a higher google rank =). My god, if you can quote sections of newspapers why can't you link to them? Argh. Oh well stupid people shouldn't breed...
.. Hilary Rosen. I dunno. Coincidence? I think not.
One last odd tidbit:
Holger Rosendal, spokesman for the Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association (DNPA)
Holger Rosendal
I totally agree. This is remarkable and quite fascinating - the kids just invent words/metaphors for what the computer does and learn it. It is like in the old days when I learned DOS. I had no idea what stuff was called or how anything worked i just figured it out (to get games to work). This is the same type of thing only waayyyy cooler. Man is it just.. I dunno - neat. I say we give these kids an "honorary geek award" from slashdot =). THe only thing that troubled me about the article (and I mean only thing.. man is this cool) is this:
A: There is one experiment that scares me. These children don't know what e-mail is. If I gave them e-mail, I don't know what would happen. I'll probably try it anyway. But remember the stories one used to hear about people finding lost tribes and introducing them to Coca-Cola? I'm really seriously scared about what would happen if suddenly the whole wide world had access to these kids. I don't know who would talk to them for what purpose.
It is kindof sad in todays world that he would be afraid of what somebody would do to these kids but I understand. With all the perverts in the world... well. It just seems sad though that they are missing on a fundamental aspect of the internet because of the (literal) danger it poses to them. Plus, they would probably get spammed to death.
The only other thing I wanted to add is just how interesting it was that they could use the web (Disney's site even!) without really knowing English. I mean, think about it. Go to some Chinese/Japanese/French/Whatever site and try using it. Almost impossible (without the fish) but here these kids have figured out how. And to think we bitch when sites use flash...
He has my vote for some sort of award.
If you wnat to learn more about 64-bit processors I suggest you read this article:
Extreme Tech article
I mirrored the pictures here (let time warner take some of the bandwith costs =):
http://home.neb.rr.com/pubhtml/c64/c64.html
I would say the following would be *really* difficult not because of technology which renders such questions moot but just to VISUALIZE and adequatley convey the scope of said project:
Larry Niven's Ringworld -Been proposed many a time but no filmaker has yet to accept the challenge
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars - how do you adequately portray a space elevator? The massive terraforming of a world? How do you convey the SCOPE?
There are probably others but I am kindof lazy right now. You get the point though - any sufficently large hard-to-conceputalize book would do it.
The Burroughs books are pure space opera. Of course the people who did 'The Mummy' can do them justice, they're pretty fluffy already.
... oh. Right.
I will not disagree with you that they are pure fluff but, then again, so was Star Wars. Would you *really* want the guys who did the Mummy to do Star Wars? Do you think they would turn out the same? Didn't think so. =).
P.S. they would probably make something with a horrid plot, an annoying sidekick that appeals to children, and a long-drawn out 'race'
Thanks for clearing that up. You are right - talking about time travel tends to give me massive headaches.
My favorite part:
The professor and his UConn colleagues plan to build a device to test whether it's possible to transport a subatomic particle, probably a neutron, through time. The energy from a rotating laser beam, Mallett hopes, would warp the space inside the ring of the light so that gravity forces the neutron to rotate sideways. With even more energy, it's possible, he believes, a second neutron would appear. The second particle would be the first one visiting itself from the future.
Hmmm. Ok, fine you MIGHT make the particle disappear but.. umm a couple of problems. How in the heck are you going to get it 'back from the future'? What, is hte particle going to KNOW how to come back? Is it going to have some sort of time machine in the future? This guy sounds like a complete loon.
Time travel *might* be possible but the energies and such involved, well I always thought it would have to involve using a wormhole, i.e. a tear in the fabric of space-time which is what he propeses to do with these 'lasers' (best Dr. Evil voice). IANAP but to create a wormhole requires enormous energies. If I remember A Brief History of Time right, something like a couple of minutes of continous output of our sun to create one, not to mention holding it open. To put it another way - the sum total of all energy used by human civilization. Sure, it's just another engineering problem. Of course, so is a dyson sphere...
Besides, everyone knows that to achieve time-travel you simply go into warp around the sun...
By Doing this you Installantly decrease the resale value of your car by 15-20% as well as it is EXTREMELY ILLEGAL to mess with a car's speedometer. Car dealers are, SHOCK, smarter than you and know when a speedometer has been messed with. What do you want to bet that disconnecting said wire probably set a 'flag' somewhere on that car's computer?
It would be extremeley rare for all the components in the car to be destroyed to such a degree that the manufacturer couldn't find out that it had been modified (not to mention possible witnesses etc). Just think of what survives after aiplanes crash..
However, these are the same arguments that where used long, long ago about other mods to a car - new brakes, suspension, etc. Of course these where easier to detect. I would bet that fairly soon auto manufactures are going to find a way to set a 'flag' somewhere that would alert them to any possible mods a car has had (a little black bock, heavily armored, containing a 16k Flash RAM chip + some sort of protection scheme would do nicely, which BTW, if you decide to mess with you DESERVE to be prosecuted - breach of contract, i.e. warrany. But, in the meantime, you are right - the auto manufactures would/are probably scared of this.
An interesting note: I DOUBT that an encryption system could be effectively implemented on a car. Considering the extra processing overhead this would require to encrypt/decrypt each communication and with response times needing to be in the thousands of a second (at least) I would be very, very suprised if it would be worth their time + cost effective to implement one.
The problem though is that people have to *fight* these things actively for them to fail. This alone makes them effective.. only if someone does something truly outrageous (no n***rs not allowed or something on a billboard in front of their business) will they fight it.
Another thing - how is saying 'no asians/whites/people/women' allowed any different than 'shirt/shoes required'? I don't know, just curious.
Argh. f**ck sony:
"And it won't eject properly, but that's just because the computer has crashed."
And you won't be able to eat properly, but that's just because my foot is so far up your ass that I'm playing footsie with your tonsils.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh.
The scary thing is yes you could do this - although you would piss people off. you can refuse to sell something to a CUSTOMER for any reason, or no reason. However, you can't refuse to HIRE somebody based on any reason. So yes, you could put a huge sign that says "no homosexuals allowed" and be fine with it - but you owuld still have to HIRE them, note this DOES NOT apply to gov't or any business that recieves Gov't funding. As a matter of fact, in recent years many home owners associations have begin to have bylaws that say, basiclly, if you ain't white, rich, protestant, and meet our standards you can't live here. But, of course, realators can't sell/show houses that are in such home associations so it isn't that widespread of a thing -yet.
In essence, sony can do whatever they want with the compact discs as long as they don't violate existing law (yeah, I think they do but the RIAA doesn't). And think of it this way - if you could get this disc to play in your computer you would be in violation of the DMCA.
And citing homosexuality as a case is bad - in most states in the US it is perfectly OK to discriminate against this, including hiring.
Multi desktops IS something that KDE does well but.. well if you have ever used Solaris you know that the implementation is somewhat lacking. You can actually get programs to allow multiple desktops on windows, my roomate has one, but it hogs resources. Oh, and i despise the KDE 'taskbar'. Waaaaayyyy too cluttered.
Ramping win95 to be better than xp is slighlty impossible and would take quite a bit of effort. Since the kernel is a bastardized version of 16bit/32bit it would require rewriting a whole new kernel - an effort akin to the current linux project. But, you COULD use the source for the win95 interface, which is waaaay better than gnome/kde I don't care what they say, to make linux way better + steal the plug and play code.. which might finally allow real people ot use linux. Which is why I suggested msdos/win 3.1. You might learn something, but probably not enough to hurt ms.
true, but one could argue that MSDOS & win 3.1 don't have ANYTHING to do with the 'modern' verisons of Windows: 2000 & XP which are (supposdly) completely devoid of old dos code.
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc. Don't allow anyone to distibute their own versions, but let people look and submit bug fixes etc. It would not be a huge step, but i'd be a step in gaining people's trust
.Net and ActiveX. MS messenger I'm not to sure on other than this - it gets people a .Net passport which means it will be 'easier' to shove products down their throat - they already have a passport just buy! (same with hotmail).
Of course they make money on them - otherwise they wouldn't make the product. IE is designed to garner market share, to force people to use IE gives ms alot of 'pull' when it comes to the web - in particular designing proprietary protocols that only work with MS products like
A more realistic approach would be for microsoft to realase 'old' code - stuff like MS-dos 5.0, or maybe 6.0. Windows 3.1 - products they no longer support. It would be interesting to see what would come of this.
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!
Apparently you didn't get the joke.
The rain in Seville is marvelous or When it's raining in Sevilla it is marvelous.
Something along those lines... only taken 2 semesters of espanol.
La Lluvia = to Rain, raining
En Sevilla = In Seville (city in spain)
es = is
una maravilla = Marvel, marvelous
Not happy about how the DMCA is being used eh? WTF. He supports Napster yet drafts a bill that destroys any chance of a service like napster ever being used. I think Sen. Hatch has pulled of a nice spin campaign to sway voters. SOmethign like this: