Some of the comments are decrying the privacy invasion. I think they are not taking into account the past behavior of the company. Although it seems a bit unlikey to me that they would put out this service, if they did they would most likely first release it as a public beta, and you would have to willingly download it and accept its EULA (most likely clicking "next" to everything until "Finish" comes up, you know, SOP). I find it really hard to believe that with their current record they would screw up as badly as to try to force this on people. Most likely they would be very open and up front about it, and thousands of dweeebs would use it just because it's Google's and therefore "cool".
Any average/.r might be able to change and customize the shutdown and startup logos from M$'s defaults to whatever they want but it is not easy and it is not straightforward for the average user. The average user knows how to change the wallpaper bitmap and that's it. If he is running something similar to Windows Shades, then he is no longer average.
If they pull this idiotic crap, be sure they will do the same. Make the sound a propietary format or a weird and obscure modification that HAS to be a sound of a particular 14.83 bit-depth and exactly 666 bits long with a non-standard extension, mark it with system privileges and make the OS whine about it if it doesn't find the sound. Unless they have become so incredibly retarded that they would rather have their most secure OS to date crash if you tamper or remove it.
If they really want to make it mandatory, they will do their best to make it difficult for the average user to take it away.
Please mod me away into oblivion if I'm mistaken but, isn't this exactly the way commercial open TV works? Someone known as the producer pays in advance for the goods: script, performances, etc. Then they give it away "for free" in the open signal and they get their money back from the advertisers. If the show fails to catch up and therefore generate the expected revenue stream, it gets cancelled.
Now with the net and the new digital media it might be possible to do something similar to audience tracking. Right now they meassure how many coach potatoEs watch X show, and the advertisement price is set based on that. Even radio works that way. The problem is, like the CEO of Nettwerk said (I think it was him) so-called the music industry is not in the business of entertainment but in the business of selling plastic objects. If they were in the business of music, they would be readily and proactively looking for new business models to market their content instead of trying to force consumers to buy their only approved medium of distribution.
Yeah, it might save some trees from being flushed down the toilet, but insted it proposes to waste a much more valuable and scarce resource: fresh water. In case you haven't noticed there is a worldwide shortage of fresh water building up. I grew up in a city with water shortages where during a several-years-long dry spell you would get running water only 5 hours per day tops, regarless of socioeconmic standing. Now I moved to another hemisphere and guess what? same problems check this out for only one example . Ain't just my luck...
Anyway, I would think that new technologies should start to take into account not only current conditions but long-term viability. In my opinion it would make more sense to keep using paper but get it not from trees but from marihua... er, hemp.
Waaay back in 1990 when I was in Uni and internet was a place for people with a clue (well, mostly) you were required to take an knowledge exam before being issued an account to access the VMS and the net. I couldn't be arsed to take the test so I wrote a program that would mimic the login screen and then log the passwords. It would always display a login error notice the first time so I could double-check that it was the right one, then it would forward you to the real login screen. That's where I got my nick from =)
But you *can* protect yourself from that, my bank in Mexico (http://www.banorte.com) uses a virtual keyboard where you have to type your login using the mouse. They have also recently begun issuing a security token that changes the password every minute or so, and you have to enter the number on the display to access the sensitive stuff such as funds transfer. And it's included in the $10MXN monthly fee (less than a $1USD)
I for one am 100% willing to take my chances. I don't know exactly how high those chances are since everyone is histerically running from the imaginary terrorists that my conciveably strik at just any minute now.
Honestly, is it more likely to be killed by a terrorist than by a mechanical malfunction, human mistake or any other cause of airplane-related death? Granted, almost nobody *wants* to be killed by any other human no matter what the reason, but I rather die a human than live like a house pet. And not a very well loved one at that.
It's already more likely to be struck by lightning than to die in an airplane accident, and though nobody releases any statistics it's also much more likely to die in a plane accident than in a terrorist attack.
Unless you happen to live on one of the war-ravaged countries where the western military, particularly but not limited to US and Britain, are the terrorist bombing away the population. Afghanistan, Iraq anyone?
In Mexico all textbooks are free of charge and provided by law by the government at elementary and secondary levels (thats years 1-6 and 7-9). There is never a single, simple fix-it-all solution to anything: you get the books and the education for free (in fact attendance is mandatory by law) yet extra-curricular problems prevent thousands of children from attending to school.
Forget about your self absorbed fears, do you really think you're so interesting? The REAL downside to this is that it opens the door for all sorts of crooks to dirt-cheap surveillance. Nevermind they watch you cheat on your SO, how about somebody able to trail your moves, have acurate time tables, know your every routine? How often certain people go to the ATM, how guard shifts are changed at certain businesses, what are the best times to catch somebody alone. Nevermind the whole neighborhood my be watching, nothing a good ski mask and a swift stolen car cant handle.
I just recently moved from Mexico to Australia, and while Mexican market usually follows US-type practices it's underlying network is based in european standards. At Mexico I had a simple GSM mobile locked to the network on a plan that charged me the equivalent to $40USD a month for 100 minutes off-peak hours (that is, in the blackest of night) and some 50 on peak hours. It worked rather well and I used it in USA and Mexico, and then came to Oz. Here I paid $40AUD to unlock it, and bought a prepaid but later it broke.
Then I went ahead and locked myself into another two year contract and now I have a kick as 3G cell that with video call capabilities, 2MP photos, MP3 so I can use a 1GB mini-SD card to listen at work, and serves coffe in the morning. And it CAME WITH THE USB cable, software, and a bucketload of nifty applications including a midi-to-polytone converter and some utility to send SMS from the laptop while the phone is attached. And for the same $40AUD I also get unlimited acces to email so now that I've redirected gmail to it I can stay in touch all day. I know it sounds like paid insert from the company (which I wont' name but it's cool) but at first I couldn't belive how much better options they have around here both in pricing and devices.
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How 'bout ethics? I know it's kinda old-fashioned and all, but it strikes me as a bit unethical to use living creatures to do this kind of dangerous work. Using a machine would be a great alternative.
Also, as with computers, this things wouldn't be single-purpose. One would expect them to carry on similar tasks in other situations, maybe exploration of dangerous environments.
How much info or intel could one of those rats send back? How would you direct them to a place that was of particular interest to you?
I agree with you in everything but the visualization point. The whole point of the role play is to excercise imagination, and this narrows you view just in the same way a movie narrows it when compared to the images one can form in their brains when reading.
Sounds real cool. I'll download it before some Bin-laden whako wannabe uses it to train his paramilitary forces and the game is pulled down from every server.
How come nobody's b*tching about this yet? I mean, if the seriously think that terrorists trained by usind MS's Flight Simulator, is there any better training program than the military sponsored one?
In last monday's weekly supplement of the most influential newspaper here in Mty, they ran a story intitled "Fear not, your freezer will still work on 01/01/00" or something to that effect. It had a whole lot of info on why your microwave oven , toaster and miscellaneous kitchen appliances should not fail due to the Y2K bug.
I thought at first that the article was ridiculous, until I realized that many people were relived (sp?) to learn that those appliances were not affected. Mexico isn't nearly as technology-dependant as developed countries, and most of our technology is fairly new (less than 10 years is the mean for computer equippment) . We're also listed as one of the 8 top compliant countries in the world regarding govt'ment compliance, but man! You'd be surprised at how naive people are regarding stuff like this...
In your opinion, would it be possible for MS to continue it's so-called strong-arm practices in countries other than the USA, if they were found guilty of illegal practices and penalized?
In a related question, would you say that it is actually a reasonable thing for them to consider moving their operations to a "less restrictive country" should the ruling be against them? Why / Why not?
Wow. It does sound impressive... Video Cell Phones. I'd love to see this technology come to life, but I was wondering... how would you have to use it? It would have to be used in a different fashion than today's phones. Perhaps it would have to be held in front of you for its minicam to get your picture, and for you to see whatever the other cam is feeding you.
Now a scary tought: picture all those damn fools driving around in their cars while hooked to their current phones. Just imagine the mess if they didn't have to just listen but to watch at them! Here at Monterrey it's forbidden to drive while talkin by cellphone, and I've never seen anybody (including myself) discouraged by such regulation...
I know it's a stoopid example to talk about "Network eneabled toasters" (TM), but hey, if some big time appliances company turns its cannons against the poor mindles and gullible average consumer with enough relentlessnes, they will buy.
Anybody left whose long-term memory hasn't been disrupted by cell-phones remembers the truckloads of people lining up on the streets awaiting to buy the wonferful Windows95(r)(tm)(etc) ?
Some of them didn't even own a computer!!
The thechlore has it that marketing people are idiots. They are not, they are evil and cunning, and they get most average joes who let their guard down.
Reading these comments regarding possible do-s and do-nots, I came up with a question. Let's suppose for the sake of argument that the US declared war on some unpopular and troublesome country. Let's think Irak invading Kuwait again.
Imagine that the militrary use their cyberwarfare capabilities in some way that effectively violates the "laws of war". Is there an effective way to force american criminals of war to face a trial? I mean, in most cases, the not so well regarded "help" of the USA is used to enforce compliment of international law, because it's huge power.
Would the other countries in the NATO or the UN security counsel have the power to take those criminals before justice should the US government chose not to hand them? Given they current and apparent concern with not breaking the law, that may seem unlikely, but it's also widely known that "Northamericans have no friends, only interests".
Maybe stock isn't allowed, but one thing you could actually buy on eBay would be the MOON. I take it's property of some old american madman who claimed it a while ago:P
What the heck is this echeleon thing everybody's talking about? Is the NSA auctioning it on eBay?;)
From the Article: "In fact, prevention may rely more on protecting computers from being used by malicious programmers, rather than protecting the target, he said.".
Ack. That is suerly the best way to deal with security issues. Let's just put infocops all over the web at the back of every computer to ensure that it's user is not misbehaving.
I believe the problem lies elsewhere. It's more about people in the systems administration not having a clue about security, and people in management positions not willing to spend on enoug personnel to actually run things the way they should. I've seen too many sites where the 3 systems guys double as DBA/Sysadmin/help desk/tech support and whatnot. And I'm not talking about small business.
I have been using Litestep for half a year, and I can asure you it *does* make the machine run a lot smoother under windows.
And it is utter nonsense to say that it's meant to give you more complexities. It's purpose is to give you the power to configure windoze GUI anyway you like. Just set it up as to have no Wharf, no popup menus, only plain simple icons on the desktop (which cannot be added/substracted or otherwise modified). Something like, say, "Click me to Browse the Net!". He will have to get point-and-clicky to browse the web anyway, or are you planning to put him through Lynx?;)
I have set up such configuration as a temporary measure to keep lusers from messing around with some public machine that was used to look up a the library's intranet, and it worked out so well that we never switched to Unix as was originally planned. And you still get to install whatever Windoze program your grandpa comes across and would like to try out. The only downside to this is what others have already pointed out -lack of remote administration. But if you happen to live nearby, that's a nice excuse for paying the old folk a visit:)
Well, I don't think I saw this posted before. Most people seem to go for a system with multiple ways of rating posts. I agree with those who point out that it would make filtering posts more difficult.
My suggestion is very simple: why not have TWO ratings per post? One of them would be the rating system that's currently on use, enforced by moderators.
The other score would be one based on the "popularity" of the post, just like some download sites rate their offerings (i.e. customize.org). Every post would present both the moderated score and the voted score, and you would be able to set up your preferences so as to display: Moderated: 2 and up
Voted: 3 and up
or whatever combination of the two you liked.
How to vote? Well, each post could include a check-box or a drop-down box, or something to the effect. Readers could check each post as they read them, and there would be a submit button at the very end of the page.
This way, readers could vote for as many posts as they wanted, whithout having to submit their vote for every single one. Also, only those readers interested in voting would take the "trouble" to scroll to the end of the page and submit.
And finally, only registered users would be allowed to vote for posts, and of course they could only vote once.
The advantages I see to this system are: 1) You can rely on moderators to initialy rate posts. 2) The moderator system provides a somewhat more imparcial rating system, because the karma system ensures only "responsible" slashdot users get to rate the posts. (Ok, so far these are advantages of the current system). 3) The voted rating ensures you get to read comments that most people aggree they're good (or bad, it all depends on your kinks;). Since one tends to read the forums with the content with which one agrees, this is a huge plus. 4) The voting system would allow us lame posters, who probably will never get enough points to be moderators, to express out loud our sentiment/adhesion/rejection/whatever towards what we read. It would also (hopefully) help reduce the "I agree/way to go" types. 5)This further reinforces the "peer-review" system we all like slashdot for, and gives you one more benefit to being a registered user.
I know many of you will nearly die in a paranoia attack, but I believe that when the day comes that is cheap and reliable enough to have biometric access codes on everything that needs to be protected, this endless password dance will be reduced.
If I could simply get a retinal scan to log into my computer, the need to password protect much of it's content would be a great deal less.
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I thought that was in Alaska =p
Some of the comments are decrying the privacy invasion. I think they are not taking into account the past behavior of the company. Although it seems a bit unlikey to me that they would put out this service, if they did they would most likely first release it as a public beta, and you would have to willingly download it and accept its EULA (most likely clicking "next" to everything until "Finish" comes up, you know, SOP). I find it really hard to believe that with their current record they would screw up as badly as to try to force this on people. Most likely they would be very open and up front about it, and thousands of dweeebs would use it just because it's Google's and therefore "cool".
Oh come on. Ctrl-F4
Any average /.r might be able to change and customize the shutdown and startup logos from M$'s defaults to whatever they want but it is not easy and it is not straightforward for the average user. The average user knows how to change the wallpaper bitmap and that's it. If he is running something similar to Windows Shades, then he is no longer average.
If they pull this idiotic crap, be sure they will do the same. Make the sound a propietary format or a weird and obscure modification that HAS to be a sound of a particular 14.83 bit-depth and exactly 666 bits long with a non-standard extension, mark it with system privileges and make the OS whine about it if it doesn't find the sound. Unless they have become so incredibly retarded that they would rather have their most secure OS to date crash if you tamper or remove it.
If they really want to make it mandatory, they will do their best to make it difficult for the average user to take it away.
Please mod me away into oblivion if I'm mistaken but, isn't this exactly the way commercial open TV works? Someone known as the producer pays in advance for the goods: script, performances, etc. Then they give it away "for free" in the open signal and they get their money back from the advertisers. If the show fails to catch up and therefore generate the expected revenue stream, it gets cancelled.
Now with the net and the new digital media it might be possible to do something similar to audience tracking. Right now they meassure how many coach potatoEs watch X show, and the advertisement price is set based on that. Even radio works that way. The problem is, like the CEO of Nettwerk said (I think it was him) so-called the music industry is not in the business of entertainment but in the business of selling plastic objects. If they were in the business of music, they would be readily and proactively looking for new business models to market their content instead of trying to force consumers to buy their only approved medium of distribution.
"I'm permanently having a bad-spelling day"
Yeah, it might save some trees from being flushed down the toilet, but insted it proposes to waste a much more valuable and scarce resource: fresh water. In case you haven't noticed there is a worldwide shortage of fresh water building up. I grew up in a city with water shortages where during a several-years-long dry spell you would get running water only 5 hours per day tops, regarless of socioeconmic standing. Now I moved to another hemisphere and guess what? same problems check this out for only one example . Ain't just my luck... Anyway, I would think that new technologies should start to take into account not only current conditions but long-term viability. In my opinion it would make more sense to keep using paper but get it not from trees but from marihua... er, hemp.
Waaay back in 1990 when I was in Uni and internet was a place for people with a clue (well, mostly) you were required to take an knowledge exam before being issued an account to access the VMS and the net. I couldn't be arsed to take the test so I wrote a program that would mimic the login screen and then log the passwords. It would always display a login error notice the first time so I could double-check that it was the right one, then it would forward you to the real login screen. That's where I got my nick from =)
But you *can* protect yourself from that, my bank in Mexico (http://www.banorte.com) uses a virtual keyboard where you have to type your login using the mouse. They have also recently begun issuing a security token that changes the password every minute or so, and you have to enter the number on the display to access the sensitive stuff such as funds transfer. And it's included in the $10MXN monthly fee (less than a $1USD)
I for one am 100% willing to take my chances. I don't know exactly how high those chances are since everyone is histerically running from the imaginary terrorists that my conciveably strik at just any minute now.
Honestly, is it more likely to be killed by a terrorist than by a mechanical malfunction, human mistake or any other cause of airplane-related death? Granted, almost nobody *wants* to be killed by any other human no matter what the reason, but I rather die a human than live like a house pet. And not a very well loved one at that.
It's already more likely to be struck by lightning than to die in an airplane accident, and though nobody releases any statistics it's also much more likely to die in a plane accident than in a terrorist attack.
Unless you happen to live on one of the war-ravaged countries where the western military, particularly but not limited to US and Britain, are the terrorist bombing away the population. Afghanistan, Iraq anyone?
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In Mexico all textbooks are free of charge and provided by law by the government at elementary and secondary levels (thats years 1-6 and 7-9). There is never a single, simple fix-it-all solution to anything: you get the books and the education for free (in fact attendance is mandatory by law) yet extra-curricular problems prevent thousands of children from attending to school.
Forget about your self absorbed fears, do you really think you're so interesting? The REAL downside to this is that it opens the door for all sorts of crooks to dirt-cheap surveillance. Nevermind they watch you cheat on your SO, how about somebody able to trail your moves, have acurate time tables, know your every routine? How often certain people go to the ATM, how guard shifts are changed at certain businesses, what are the best times to catch somebody alone. Nevermind the whole neighborhood my be watching, nothing a good ski mask and a swift stolen car cant handle.
I just recently moved from Mexico to Australia, and while Mexican market usually follows US-type practices it's underlying network is based in european standards. At Mexico I had a simple GSM mobile locked to the network on a plan that charged me the equivalent to $40USD a month for 100 minutes off-peak hours (that is, in the blackest of night) and some 50 on peak hours. It worked rather well and I used it in USA and Mexico, and then came to Oz. Here I paid $40AUD to unlock it, and bought a prepaid but later it broke.
Then I went ahead and locked myself into another two year contract and now I have a kick as 3G cell that with video call capabilities, 2MP photos, MP3 so I can use a 1GB mini-SD card to listen at work, and serves coffe in the morning. And it CAME WITH THE USB cable, software, and a bucketload of nifty applications including a midi-to-polytone converter and some utility to send SMS from the laptop while the phone is attached. And for the same $40AUD I also get unlimited acces to email so now that I've redirected gmail to it I can stay in touch all day. I know it sounds like paid insert from the company (which I wont' name but it's cool) but at first I couldn't belive how much better options they have around here both in pricing and devices.
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How 'bout ethics? I know it's kinda old-fashioned and all, but it strikes me as a bit unethical to use living creatures to do this kind of dangerous work. Using a machine would be a great alternative.
Also, as with computers, this things wouldn't be single-purpose. One would expect them to carry on similar tasks in other situations, maybe exploration of dangerous environments.
How much info or intel could one of those rats send back? How would you direct them to a place that was of particular interest to you?
I agree with you in everything but the visualization point. The whole point of the role play is to excercise imagination, and this narrows you view just in the same way a movie narrows it when compared to the images one can form in their brains when reading.
That said, I think this game is gonna be cool =)
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Sounds real cool. I'll download it before some Bin-laden whako wannabe uses it to train his paramilitary forces and the game is pulled down from every server.
How come nobody's b*tching about this yet? I mean, if the seriously think that terrorists trained by usind MS's Flight Simulator, is there any better training program than the military sponsored one?
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(...) Then again even a broken clock tells right time twice a day. ;)
[VR]: Unless it's a digital clock =P
(Sooooo sorry! couln't help myself!)
In last monday's weekly supplement of the most influential newspaper here in Mty, they ran a story intitled "Fear not, your freezer will still work on 01/01/00" or something to that effect. It had a whole lot of info on why your microwave oven , toaster and miscellaneous kitchen appliances should not fail due to the Y2K bug.
I thought at first that the article was ridiculous, until I realized that many people were relived (sp?) to learn that those appliances were not affected. Mexico isn't nearly as technology-dependant as developed countries, and most of our technology is fairly new (less than 10 years is the mean for computer equippment) . We're also listed as one of the 8 top compliant countries in the world regarding govt'ment compliance, but man! You'd be surprised at how naive people are regarding stuff like this...
In a related question, would you say that it is actually a reasonable thing for them to consider moving their operations to a "less restrictive country" should the ruling be against them? Why / Why not?
Now a scary tought: picture all those damn fools driving around in their cars while hooked to their current phones. Just imagine the mess if they didn't have to just listen but to watch at them! Here at Monterrey it's forbidden to drive while talkin by cellphone, and I've never seen anybody (including myself) discouraged by such regulation...
Anybody left whose long-term memory hasn't been disrupted by cell-phones remembers the truckloads of people lining up on the streets awaiting to buy the wonferful Windows95(r)(tm)(etc) ?
Some of them didn't even own a computer!!
The thechlore has it that marketing people are idiots. They are not, they are evil and cunning, and they get most average joes who let their guard down.
do-nots, I came up with a question. Let's suppose for the sake of argument that the US declared war on some unpopular and troublesome country. Let's think Irak invading Kuwait again.
Imagine that the militrary use their cyberwarfare capabilities in some way that effectively violates the "laws of war". Is there an effective way to force american criminals of war to face a trial? I mean, in most cases, the not so well regarded "help" of the USA is used to enforce compliment of international law, because it's huge power.
Would the other countries in the NATO or the UN security counsel have the power to take those criminals before justice should the US government chose not to hand them? Given they current and apparent concern with not breaking the law, that may seem unlikely, but it's also widely known that "Northamericans have no friends, only interests".
Just random paranoid and off-topic thoughts :)
What the heck is this echeleon thing everybody's talking about? Is the NSA auctioning it on eBay?
from being used by malicious programmers, rather than protecting the target, he
said.".
Ack. That is suerly the best way to deal with security issues. Let's just put
infocops all over the web at the back of every computer to ensure that
it's user is not misbehaving.
I believe the problem lies elsewhere. It's more about people in the systems
administration not having a clue about security, and people in management
positions not willing to spend on enoug personnel to actually run things the
way they should. I've seen too many sites where the 3 systems guys double as DBA/Sysadmin/help desk/tech support and whatnot. And I'm not talking about small business.
In fewer bytes, it's about culture.
And it is utter nonsense to say that it's meant to give you more complexities. It's purpose is to give you the power to configure windoze GUI anyway you like. Just set it up as to have no Wharf, no popup menus, only plain simple icons on the desktop (which cannot be added/substracted or otherwise modified). Something like, say, "Click me to Browse the Net!". He will have to get point-and-clicky to browse the web anyway, or are you planning to put him through Lynx?
I have set up such configuration as a temporary measure to keep lusers from messing around with some public machine that was used to look up a the library's intranet, and it worked out so well that we never switched to Unix as was originally planned. And you still get to install whatever Windoze program your grandpa comes across and would like to try out. The only downside to this is what others have already pointed out -lack of remote administration. But if you happen to live nearby, that's a nice excuse for paying the old folk a visit
Well, I don't think I saw this posted before. Most people seem to go for a system with multiple ways of rating posts. I agree with those who point out that it would make filtering posts more difficult.
My suggestion is very simple: why not have TWO ratings per post? One of them would be the rating system that's currently on use, enforced by moderators.
The other score would be one based on the "popularity" of the post, just like some download sites rate their offerings (i.e. customize.org). Every post would present both the moderated score and the voted score, and you would be able to set up your preferences so as to display:
Moderated: 2 and up
Voted: 3 and up
or whatever combination of the two you liked.
How to vote? Well, each post could include a check-box or a drop-down box, or something to the effect. Readers could check each post as they read them, and there would be a submit button at the very end of the page.
This way, readers could vote for as many posts as they wanted, whithout having to submit their vote for every single one. Also, only those readers interested in voting would take the "trouble" to scroll to the end of the page and submit.
And finally, only registered users would be allowed to vote for posts, and of course they could only vote once.
The advantages I see to this system are:
1) You can rely on moderators to initialy rate posts.
2) The moderator system provides a somewhat more imparcial rating system, because the karma system ensures only "responsible" slashdot users get to rate the posts. (Ok, so far these are advantages of the current system).
3) The voted rating ensures you get to read comments that most people aggree they're good (or bad, it all depends on your kinks
4) The voting system would allow us lame posters, who probably will never get enough points to be moderators, to express out loud our sentiment/adhesion/rejection/whatever towards what we read. It would also (hopefully) help reduce the "I agree/way to go" types.
5)This further reinforces the "peer-review" system we all like slashdot for, and gives you one more benefit to being a registered user.
Just my two cents.
I know many of you will nearly die in a paranoia attack, but I believe that when the day comes that is cheap and reliable enough to have biometric access codes on everything that needs to be protected, this endless password dance will be reduced.
If I could simply get a retinal scan to log into my computer, the need to password protect much of it's content would be a great deal less.
- Raider