I wish a judge would rule that the "audits" Scientologists sell to their customers were "defective" products and allow people to talk about them among themselves. Right now you mention Xenu and Scientology's lawyers issue you a smackdown.
And loser pays for court costs (which is the way it is here in Canada) to level the playing field by reducing extortive suit filing.
There's lots of ways to go about finding subscribers to your views but I believe most of them aren't needed yet in the United States. Places like Saudi Arabia and Iran should be the backdrop to serious discussion of why anonymity matters.
...software for a given use and more and more we see how unfit for that use it is...
Microsoft's software works well enough for practically all users besides Uber-Geeks. My parents don't even know what an operating system is let alone that Microsoft owns it. To them it's just the computer and their frame-of-reference doesn't judge it as unfit because they've never used another OS to compare against.
Windows belongs to Microsoft and they are out to make a profit. Financialy making Windows unauthorized use difficult could add a few percent to a pie chart somewhere thereby justifying Windows Genuine Advantage checking.
So, if you're a pirate you can either deal with all the contractual obligations found in the proprietary world or adapt to a F/OSS world where software such as registration/access checks simply do not have a logical place.
Also wishing Windows (XP Pro $399CAD here) was not so un-free.
I wish p2p would include some sort of payment system. If I could fire up Gnutella or Azureus and have a big debit button where I could pay with a click standardized as a common framework for anyone to plug into their app then the issue would mostly resolve itself. Basically a Gnu_iTunes. P2P isn't bad, missing payment systems is.
As far as I understand, Reiser4 is meant to provide a foundation that can be extended through the use of plug-in(s) without reformatting or converting a volume. Reiser4 is only a framework where operatation's on the underlying store is filtered through plug-ins to make the filesystem appear completely different depending on the plug-in an application uses. Plug-ins allow the store to appear as different structures to different applications simultaneously. Specific plug-ins such as a relational directory structure are coded separately and are mixed and matched without conflict between applications.
ReiserFS' framework is kind of like Zope while a view (such as said relational directory) would be a Zope product. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Reminds me of a scene in The Turing Option where the main character has to physically make a trip to an out of country data dump to retrieve some bad mojo. This leads to a question of where the posts data dumps are located? Which jurisdictions do they fall under and therefore what laws?
And relatedly when gigabit connections become common sometime in the future you could keep your mp3's or divx movies in a dump and not notice any latency accessing them when the net isn't down (;) ).
I can't wait to have my brain transplanted to my custom body (you know, the one for living underwater).
Of course any theraputic program like this will be first used to fix damaged tissue, but give it thirty to fifty years and see what it grows into (without saying whether it's good or bad).
You know, Slashdot's moderation system was old when I was young give or take two decades. Moderation exists in irc and usenet as well in the form of channel operators and select newsgroups respectively. Moderation is a good thing and Wikipedia will probably do well evolving their own moderation style, syntax, and categories. As your parent post goes, different default branches can be served to difference audiences depending on their role (reader, editor, moderator, ?). Additionally meta-data in other branches could create trees that could contain information such as editorial history or maybe aggregate information (Gb sent, size of all files, moderation history, ?). All contained within a nice web application that handles the mechanics and operation of carrying out the associated voting and content management that Wikipedia is rich enough to need.
Is it web2.1 yet?
8^{
I gotta side step a bit and say that I was not talking about java - I was really talking about Mono. I think Mono is important because it would allow traditional Microsoft developers to substitute Linux for Windows at some future date and experience no discomfort developilarily wise. When I get off my butt and write some python code I'm thinking of having Python that calls the.net framework e.g. Iron Python. The overall speed increase of about 1.7x faster execution of a program compared against the official Python interpreter shows the well thought out and true engineering of the product - the.net virtual machine is very well built. As Mono progress' along with Microsoft's VM having the advantage of being able to easily switch your entire OS stack with little or no downtime of your code is a tactical plus.
I would suggest Mono as an important project. As Microsoft designed it,.net's common language runtime can be targeted from practically any language..net is equivalent to a standard virtual machine that provides a standard environment (duh). By allowing code to leverage other code and perform this work independent of any particular programming languages they've created a large developer base that can easily be ported to Linux via Mono.
8^p
Just wait a decade or two, robots such as these are only the front line. No scientist like Einstein stands out today simply because there are too many scientists who would deserve to be mentioned. Future shock is now real or in modern day terms, a singularity, is that much closer. Japanese culture is where I almost expect intelligent machines to emerge from. We fear Skynet, the typical Japanese adult cut their teeth on Astroboy and intelligent machines are viewed as "our robot friends" in their culture. Overly simplified maybe, but the generalities remain that here we are fearful of machine intelligence while there they are hopeful of it. Throw in the fact that Japan's elderly population will outnumber the youth of it's population in about 20 years is creating a need to have autonomous machines to simply help those future people to get out of bed and into the bath.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but you're still the idiot.
At a point in time 100% and almost 100% are different but as you apparently do use the Internet across time the difference disappears. If the zero-day exploit doesn't get you right away it will when you eventually wake up your cable modem.
8^p
Second paragraph: there is some small statistical amount of protection coming from turning your cable modem off at night but that still won't protect you when you go on the Internet the next day. Especially if you use a common browser.
Third paragraph: you're being ridiculed because what your doing is futile.
... I have a feeling, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that you and he are one and the same...
You're tripping buddy. Take off the tinfoil.
I really think that you seem to lack faith in the technology you use. If your firewall is active and properly configured, you're not giving yourself "extra" protection by shutting it of when you're away from your computer. You come across as having a smug sense of satisfaction that you're "better" than the average online person.
... Asking me if I unplug my TV and DVD player is ridiculous...about as much so as me asking "Do you leave your car headlights on all night?" If you guys aren't intelligent enough to see the difference, then you are beyond help. ...
I don't agree with your logical outcome to your argument. Obviously leaving your car headlights on is a stupid analogy for leaving your cable modem on. Now the jump you made from that example to the conclusion that the people questioning you are "beyond help" is where connecting your analogy and conclusion really shows your character.
...I don't do anything I wish to hide on the internet, to do so is simply retarded. However, I do have a cable modem which is notoriously insecure anyway, and why leave it on if a) it's not in use and shouldn't be, and b) only takes the flick of one finger for it to instantly return? Why rely on a firewall when I can just make absolute certain nothing errant will happen, when it has absolutely no adverse affect at all?...
You probably keep a bucket of water next to your PC just in case it suddenly becomes malevolently intelligent too...
I think that the mind/body interpretation of consciousness is falling more to the wayside of the road. What I mean is that even though the mind is emergent from the brain, the emergence does not exist outside of our Universe. Instead the basic atoms of mind are distributed across multiple units of brain (neural clumps). At one level of abstraction you have brain and the exact same matter at a different level of abstraction is mind.
Of course philosophy has a place everywhere and it's so ingrained that most of the time when someone stumbles on a philisophical thought they just pick themselves up and pretend that nothing happened (sorry Winston). Computer Science is like "could we do this" while Computer Philosophy is more of "should we do this". For example, Skynet. 8^p
This is exactly why I don't buy any of my music online. None. I buy CD's instead and have autorun turned off to avoid rootkits and then I rip the cd into 320 kbps vbr mp3's and enjoy full compatibility with practically any music player whether it's a mobile player or winamp. No DRM. If the record companies eventually stop making cd's and switch to a drm'd format then I guess I'll just have to switch to some indie labels who don't treat their customers like criminals. But that's a few years off at least. Kid's today should just do an end run around the music industry and only listen to free music - there's a lot of it out there and when you donate money it all goes to the artist not the fraction big label artists get now (after deductions such as "breakage fee's" that are even charged on digital sales).
Cringely offers NerdTV as a bittorrent download. As it is legal there's usually a ton of seeds on each download - nothing better to demonstrate the speed possible with bittorrent.
I can't belive some idjit modded you down. Come on people, RFID is not magic - it just emits a number when pulsed with radio waves. Have yourself a RFID reader and you will have the key to whatever was locked up with that particular implant. Reminds me of a previous RFID discussion a while back where someone said RFID would be good helping banks keep track of money and detect counterfeit bills. Then someone else pointed out that a RFID enabled mugger would just keep walking up to people until his hacked-together illegal reader told him who was worth it to rob.
Again, the parent poster should not have been modded down.
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I wish a judge would rule that the "audits" Scientologists sell to their customers were "defective" products and allow people to talk about them among themselves. Right now you mention Xenu and Scientology's lawyers issue you a smackdown.
And loser pays for court costs (which is the way it is here in Canada) to level the playing field by reducing extortive suit filing.
There's lots of ways to go about finding subscribers to your views but I believe most of them aren't needed yet in the United States. Places like Saudi Arabia and Iran should be the backdrop to serious discussion of why anonymity matters.
...software for a given use and more and more we see how unfit for that use it is...
Microsoft's software works well enough for practically all users besides Uber-Geeks. My parents don't even know what an operating system is let alone that Microsoft owns it. To them it's just the computer and their frame-of-reference doesn't judge it as unfit because they've never used another OS to compare against.
Windows belongs to Microsoft and they are out to make a profit. Financialy making Windows unauthorized use difficult could add a few percent to a pie chart somewhere thereby justifying Windows Genuine Advantage checking.
So, if you're a pirate you can either deal with all the contractual obligations found in the proprietary world or adapt to a F/OSS world where software such as registration/access checks simply do not have a logical place.
Also wishing Windows (XP Pro $399CAD here) was not so un-free.
Score one for maintaining the status quo.
I wish p2p would include some sort of payment system. If I could fire up Gnutella or Azureus and have a big debit button where I could pay with a click standardized as a common framework for anyone to plug into their app then the issue would mostly resolve itself. Basically a Gnu_iTunes. P2P isn't bad, missing payment systems is.
As far as I understand, Reiser4 is meant to provide a foundation that can be extended through the use of plug-in(s) without reformatting or converting a volume. Reiser4 is only a framework where operatation's on the underlying store is filtered through plug-ins to make the filesystem appear completely different depending on the plug-in an application uses. Plug-ins allow the store to appear as different structures to different applications simultaneously. Specific plug-ins such as a relational directory structure are coded separately and are mixed and matched without conflict between applications.
ReiserFS' framework is kind of like Zope while a view (such as said relational directory) would be a Zope product. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And meanwhile ReiserFS on Linux provides much of the functionality today that WinFS only promised for the future.
Reminds me of a scene in The Turing Option where the main character has to physically make a trip to an out of country data dump to retrieve some bad mojo. This leads to a question of where the posts data dumps are located? Which jurisdictions do they fall under and therefore what laws? ;) ).
And relatedly when gigabit connections become common sometime in the future you could keep your mp3's or divx movies in a dump and not notice any latency accessing them when the net isn't down (
I can't wait to have my brain transplanted to my custom body (you know, the one for living underwater).
Of course any theraputic program like this will be first used to fix damaged tissue, but give it thirty to fifty years and see what it grows into (without saying whether it's good or bad).
You know, Slashdot's moderation system was old when I was young give or take two decades. Moderation exists in irc and usenet as well in the form of channel operators and select newsgroups respectively. Moderation is a good thing and Wikipedia will probably do well evolving their own moderation style, syntax, and categories. As your parent post goes, different default branches can be served to difference audiences depending on their role (reader, editor, moderator, ?). Additionally meta-data in other branches could create trees that could contain information such as editorial history or maybe aggregate information (Gb sent, size of all files, moderation history, ?). All contained within a nice web application that handles the mechanics and operation of carrying out the associated voting and content management that Wikipedia is rich enough to need.
Is it web2.1 yet?
8^{
I gotta side step a bit and say that I was not talking about java - I was really talking about Mono. I think Mono is important because it would allow traditional Microsoft developers to substitute Linux for Windows at some future date and experience no discomfort developilarily wise. When I get off my butt and write some python code I'm thinking of having Python that calls the .net framework e.g. Iron Python. The overall speed increase of about 1.7x faster execution of a program compared against the official Python interpreter shows the well thought out and true engineering of the product - the .net virtual machine is very well built. As Mono progress' along with Microsoft's VM having the advantage of being able to easily switch your entire OS stack with little or no downtime of your code is a tactical plus.
I would suggest Mono as an important project. As Microsoft designed it, .net's common language runtime can be targeted from practically any language. .net is equivalent to a standard virtual machine that provides a standard environment (duh). By allowing code to leverage other code and perform this work independent of any particular programming languages they've created a large developer base that can easily be ported to Linux via Mono.
8^p
...What's the point of a firewall? To lock a doorway. But if you are worried about locking it up, why not just close it off absolutely if it's possible? Often times I leave my PC on all night to crunch video or other CPU-intensive things, and there simply is no reason for my machine to access the internet while it's doing so....
You did seem to imply security as the reason for putting your modem into standby.
Just wait a decade or two, robots such as these are only the front line. No scientist like Einstein stands out today simply because there are too many scientists who would deserve to be mentioned. Future shock is now real or in modern day terms, a singularity, is that much closer. Japanese culture is where I almost expect intelligent machines to emerge from. We fear Skynet, the typical Japanese adult cut their teeth on Astroboy and intelligent machines are viewed as "our robot friends" in their culture. Overly simplified maybe, but the generalities remain that here we are fearful of machine intelligence while there they are hopeful of it. Throw in the fact that Japan's elderly population will outnumber the youth of it's population in about 20 years is creating a need to have autonomous machines to simply help those future people to get out of bed and into the bath.
Bit defensive? poke ... Poke, poke!
poke
I'm a nice guy so I'll just leave it at that...
Poke! Dammit that last one just slipped through....
Sticks and stones may break my bones but you're still the idiot.
At a point in time 100% and almost 100% are different but as you apparently do use the Internet across time the difference disappears. If the zero-day exploit doesn't get you right away it will when you eventually wake up your cable modem.
8^p
First paragraph: wtf?
Second paragraph: there is some small statistical amount of protection coming from turning your cable modem off at night but that still won't protect you when you go on the Internet the next day. Especially if you use a common browser.
Third paragraph: you're being ridiculed because what your doing is futile.
Fourth paragraph:
ttfn.
I coral cached a wayback page a while ago, does that count as web 2.0ish? ;)
... I have a feeling, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that you and he are one and the same ...
... Asking me if I unplug my TV and DVD player is ridiculous...about as much so as me asking "Do you leave your car headlights on all night?" If you guys aren't intelligent enough to see the difference, then you are beyond help. ...
You're tripping buddy. Take off the tinfoil.
I really think that you seem to lack faith in the technology you use. If your firewall is active and properly configured, you're not giving yourself "extra" protection by shutting it of when you're away from your computer. You come across as having a smug sense of satisfaction that you're "better" than the average online person.
I don't agree with your logical outcome to your argument. Obviously leaving your car headlights on is a stupid analogy for leaving your cable modem on. Now the jump you made from that example to the conclusion that the people questioning you are "beyond help" is where connecting your analogy and conclusion really shows your character.
Piss off.
...I don't do anything I wish to hide on the internet, to do so is simply retarded. However, I do have a cable modem which is notoriously insecure anyway, and why leave it on if a) it's not in use and shouldn't be, and b) only takes the flick of one finger for it to instantly return? Why rely on a firewall when I can just make absolute certain nothing errant will happen, when it has absolutely no adverse affect at all? ...
You probably keep a bucket of water next to your PC just in case it suddenly becomes malevolently intelligent too...
I think that the mind/body interpretation of consciousness is falling more to the wayside of the road. What I mean is that even though the mind is emergent from the brain, the emergence does not exist outside of our Universe. Instead the basic atoms of mind are distributed across multiple units of brain (neural clumps). At one level of abstraction you have brain and the exact same matter at a different level of abstraction is mind.
Of course philosophy has a place everywhere and it's so ingrained that most of the time when someone stumbles on a philisophical thought they just pick themselves up and pretend that nothing happened (sorry Winston). Computer Science is like "could we do this" while Computer Philosophy is more of "should we do this". For example, Skynet. 8^p
... I smell a lawsuit! ... Yeah, a big one - at least six figures ... ;)
This is exactly why I don't buy any of my music online. None. I buy CD's instead and have autorun turned off to avoid rootkits and then I rip the cd into 320 kbps vbr mp3's and enjoy full compatibility with practically any music player whether it's a mobile player or winamp. No DRM. If the record companies eventually stop making cd's and switch to a drm'd format then I guess I'll just have to switch to some indie labels who don't treat their customers like criminals. But that's a few years off at least. Kid's today should just do an end run around the music industry and only listen to free music - there's a lot of it out there and when you donate money it all goes to the artist not the fraction big label artists get now (after deductions such as "breakage fee's" that are even charged on digital sales).
Cringely offers NerdTV as a bittorrent download. As it is legal there's usually a ton of seeds on each download - nothing better to demonstrate the speed possible with bittorrent.
I can't belive some idjit modded you down. Come on people, RFID is not magic - it just emits a number when pulsed with radio waves. Have yourself a RFID reader and you will have the key to whatever was locked up with that particular implant. Reminds me of a previous RFID discussion a while back where someone said RFID would be good helping banks keep track of money and detect counterfeit bills. Then someone else pointed out that a RFID enabled mugger would just keep walking up to people until his hacked-together illegal reader told him who was worth it to rob.
Again, the parent poster should not have been modded down.