For some reason am I envisioning the Army brass behind this dressing up to pretend they're Patton, and then quietly playing some bagpipe music while blasting Stars and Stripes Forever as they (and probably their tired and demoralized aides) marching in circles around their offices.
What he said is along similar lines of "If you don't use something other than Linux, you're probably not going to be able to watch Neflix." Or "If you don't let the TSA molest you, you won't be allowed on the flight."
The Chief here says basically that if you don't let them have their way, you won't be able to use their services. And I'm not sure I give a damn whether their services get used in the first place. That's time I could use to practice guitar instead, but honestly, I'm lazy enough and easily distracted enough that as long as things are easy to use, I'll still get home, sit online, and then wonder when I drag myself to bed, "where the hell did my evening go?"
So to those who would wall off portions of the internet, I say bring it. I need to finish learning the solo from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" anyway.
Android has basically become, like most tablets are, the modern equivalent of a thin client for the internet. And frankly, that's all a lot of users care about. It may not be the ideal of most people on/. for daily use, but I know a lot of teenage kids would be quite satisfied with that.
My laptop ran ridiculously hot on the open-source until I got the closed-source drivers to install properly. Let's hope the fix means default installs of Ubuntu won't melt your igloo.
Clearly, the CoS understands at this point how much control places like Google have over people's web traffic, and they're quite aware that Google can gerrymander the results. Brin seems to mistake understanding the internet as a technology to understanding the technology as a means of control.
Whois, much like the egregiously insecure and broken email system, does need to be replaced (you'd be amazed how upset my friend was when I let her know that her full name, address, and phone number were available to anyone due to her owning a few domains).
Personally, what I think needs to be done is the TLD providers need to handle the information, allowing it to be run in accordance with the laws of the country corresponding with the domain. German laws for.de, UK laws for *.uk, Japanese laws for.jp, and so forth. At the same time, I think it would be nice to allow optional support for subdomains to be whois-capable, provided by the domain owner. For example, allow myexample.tld to provide information for dyndnsuser.myexample.tld or facilityname.myexample.tld on their own terms.
Ah, but new books won't stop selling. People will just stop buying them in brick-and-mortar locations. Which is probably for the best, since the brick-and-mortar-based publisher-distributor-retailer model leads to a lot of books being produced for the sake of availability and then pulped when they don't sell fast enough.
Amazon, for example, sells all over the place but would only have to have one cache of a particular work. Barnes & Noble has to make sure their network of stores is blanketed with an estimated quantity as well as handling their online orders. It's hard to compete with the simplicity of online-only sales.
There seems to be a preoccupation in the article description with the idea of having a national bookseller. I'm not sure we actually need one. Personally, I get pretty much all my books either online or from local used bookstores. Even online, I lean towards the used market unless the new copies are (after shipping on the used, since new is usually free shipping) about the same price or less.
There's a kind of irony to the fact that the book superstores are all losing the fight while the local used shops are pretty much always hubs of activity at the times I visit them. Have publishers retail-priced themselves out of the brick and mortar world, creating a culture where the new-book-buyers go online where volume makes discounting possible, and the used buyers comfortably go either way? It certainly seems that way.
Nook or no Nook, Barnes & Noble would have been fools to ignore the eBook concept. However, I think they may be making a mistake to pursue the devices any further. It's time to go the razor route. Give the handles away, make your money on the blades. The great thing is, once you've created the "handle", the cost of delivering it to tablets, phones, and computers you didn't have to market or sell is negligible.
I'm not sure you're making the point you think you're making. We're over $16,000,000,000,000 in debt, and throwing money at our problems hasn't worked. Neither has throwing bureaucracy and thousand-page acts of congress.
I find it fascinating that you seem to believe all those things belong at the federal level to a scale that would cost more than 10% of everyone's income. We, as a nation, used to do it with no income tax at all...
If that's what it takes to abolish it, I say let's take that difficult road. Constitutionally, that doesn't actually require the cooperation of congress. Procedurally, our state legislators could make it happen if we elected good enough ones.
The IRS can only do shakedowns if we allow it by law. I think it's pretty clear that we need drastic changes in law that strip it of all but the most basic fiscal accounting duties.
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The government has figured out your evil schemes and has their eye on you and your pressure cooking WMDs.
For some reason am I envisioning the Army brass behind this dressing up to pretend they're Patton, and then quietly playing some bagpipe music while blasting Stars and Stripes Forever as they (and probably their tired and demoralized aides) marching in circles around their offices.
I'm in.
Indeed. It's a bit of wisdom that so many people lack today.
What he said is along similar lines of "If you don't use something other than Linux, you're probably not going to be able to watch Neflix." Or "If you don't let the TSA molest you, you won't be allowed on the flight."
The Chief here says basically that if you don't let them have their way, you won't be able to use their services. And I'm not sure I give a damn whether their services get used in the first place. That's time I could use to practice guitar instead, but honestly, I'm lazy enough and easily distracted enough that as long as things are easy to use, I'll still get home, sit online, and then wonder when I drag myself to bed, "where the hell did my evening go?"
So to those who would wall off portions of the internet, I say bring it. I need to finish learning the solo from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" anyway.
...they never would have accepted the idea of license plates so readily.
I guess terrorists play too much Grand Theft auto at this point...I seem to recall that mission early in Vice City using R/C helicopters...
Android has basically become, like most tablets are, the modern equivalent of a thin client for the internet. And frankly, that's all a lot of users care about. It may not be the ideal of most people on /. for daily use, but I know a lot of teenage kids would be quite satisfied with that.
My laptop ran ridiculously hot on the open-source until I got the closed-source drivers to install properly. Let's hope the fix means default installs of Ubuntu won't melt your igloo.
Pretty sure we've found their target market.
I won't argue with that, my dad bought it once for a joke during Passover. But the thread was just begging for it.
For a religious fight, I'll take Shmaltz Brewing Company's He'brew. Thanks, and l'chaim!
Clearly, the CoS understands at this point how much control places like Google have over people's web traffic, and they're quite aware that Google can gerrymander the results. Brin seems to mistake understanding the internet as a technology to understanding the technology as a means of control.
Ah, but that only handles the history end of it and the status quo. It doesn't actually justify either one.
Why, in a supposedly free country, is the possibility of something being "harmful" a justification for its being made illegal?
Whois, much like the egregiously insecure and broken email system, does need to be replaced (you'd be amazed how upset my friend was when I let her know that her full name, address, and phone number were available to anyone due to her owning a few domains).
Personally, what I think needs to be done is the TLD providers need to handle the information, allowing it to be run in accordance with the laws of the country corresponding with the domain. German laws for .de, UK laws for *.uk, Japanese laws for .jp, and so forth. At the same time, I think it would be nice to allow optional support for subdomains to be whois-capable, provided by the domain owner. For example, allow myexample.tld to provide information for dyndnsuser.myexample.tld or facilityname.myexample.tld on their own terms.
Ah, but new books won't stop selling. People will just stop buying them in brick-and-mortar locations. Which is probably for the best, since the brick-and-mortar-based publisher-distributor-retailer model leads to a lot of books being produced for the sake of availability and then pulped when they don't sell fast enough.
Amazon, for example, sells all over the place but would only have to have one cache of a particular work. Barnes & Noble has to make sure their network of stores is blanketed with an estimated quantity as well as handling their online orders. It's hard to compete with the simplicity of online-only sales.
There seems to be a preoccupation in the article description with the idea of having a national bookseller. I'm not sure we actually need one. Personally, I get pretty much all my books either online or from local used bookstores. Even online, I lean towards the used market unless the new copies are (after shipping on the used, since new is usually free shipping) about the same price or less.
There's a kind of irony to the fact that the book superstores are all losing the fight while the local used shops are pretty much always hubs of activity at the times I visit them. Have publishers retail-priced themselves out of the brick and mortar world, creating a culture where the new-book-buyers go online where volume makes discounting possible, and the used buyers comfortably go either way? It certainly seems that way.
Nook or no Nook, Barnes & Noble would have been fools to ignore the eBook concept. However, I think they may be making a mistake to pursue the devices any further. It's time to go the razor route. Give the handles away, make your money on the blades. The great thing is, once you've created the "handle", the cost of delivering it to tablets, phones, and computers you didn't have to market or sell is negligible.
at the word "metric".
While I agree with you, that's no reason to let it ride without some good, loud bitching about it.
I'm not sure you're making the point you think you're making. We're over $16,000,000,000,000 in debt, and throwing money at our problems hasn't worked. Neither has throwing bureaucracy and thousand-page acts of congress.
I find it fascinating that you seem to believe all those things belong at the federal level to a scale that would cost more than 10% of everyone's income. We, as a nation, used to do it with no income tax at all...
If that's what it takes to abolish it, I say let's take that difficult road. Constitutionally, that doesn't actually require the cooperation of congress. Procedurally, our state legislators could make it happen if we elected good enough ones.
10% is more than enough to run the government. However, it's not enough to run it as presently run. Which is a whole separate problem.
The IRS can only do shakedowns if we allow it by law. I think it's pretty clear that we need drastic changes in law that strip it of all but the most basic fiscal accounting duties.