I like how people will assume that a country twenty or thirty times larger than theirs is completely homogenous. Must be all the alcohol, bad dentistry, and knife crimYOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
I believe this isn't the kind of behavior a restraining order is geared towards, but the article is pretty slim on details. You don't have to come into contact with someone to slander, defame, impersonate, and so forth. This seems like a legitimate use of a legitimate law, but I'm hoping that the result will be several hours of community service.
The real problem here is that we're reacting to the way technology impacts our society rather than anticipating it. I think we'd all agree that putting up a billboard reading "Jenny Smith of 123 Mockingboard Lane is a FAT CUNT" would get you into hot water, but put that online and, like our patent system, everything is different. So, in my opinion, we don't need "new" laws to cover "new" implementations of old behaviors. We need meta-laws that say "online behavior is analogous to real-world behavior in these circumstances".
It seems to me that a lot of the older first persons really took advantage of a 3d environment, and that modern games go in for a more earth bound or "realistic" approach. Quake, UT and Tribes were all about rocket jumping, grappling hooks, and skiing. CoD has a 'crawl' button.
DEVELOPERS: Which of these modes of travel sounds like more fun?
Inane example yes but this sense of entitlement that some people have is sickening. By all means pirate but don't pretend you're not doing anything wrong by doing so.
Sense of entitlement vs. sense of moral superiority.... *reaches for popcorn*
No, it's not unfortunate. When I give money to a corporation in exchange for a product, my expectations for the money I end there. I get the item I paid for, and they get the money. If they want to spend the money on hookers and blow, I don't give a shit. There's no expectation that they'll spend the money in any particular way. It's a completely voluntary transaction.
That's not the case with the government. The government isn't selling a product. Taxes aren't voluntary. There's an expectation that tax money will be spent in a way that benefits everybody. That's the only reason we allow the government to take the money from us in the first place.
When a corporation spends money foolishly you can shop somewhere else or quit or whatever. When the government does it you're just screwed.
You guys are talking about two different things. He's saying that the private sector wouldn't really provide a better approach, and you're saying that the government shouldn't get involved in something like this. 'Should we do it' and 'how should we do it?' are two separate conversations.
You mean there isn't something magic about the distance from the phone to your head? I just assumed, with all the laws, that your brain stopped working when your elbow bent past a certain degree.
No he's dead on. I just signed up for a new phone and noticed similar language. If you read the fine print you see that it's basically an unspecified portion of your bill that's been given a name designed to make you think you're paying more in taxes than you are.
There have been a lot of claims made (completely unsupported by any scientific research) and a great deal of BAD science along the lines or correlation equals causation.
Oh what the fuck, man. Can you not take a class? Can you not even fucking call your local community college's geo prof? What the hell makes you think you're entitled to an opinion when you totally fail to educate yourself?
You are not entitled to an opinion when it comes to science. You need to earn this. This isn't an area where your touchy-feely republican sensibility will allow you to bullshit your way through life, this is an area where serious men with serious mustaches do real goddamn work.
Every one who's writing KNOWS exactly what the person reading it is looking for, and embellishes their life experience to fit that, thus making themselves look as good as possible. So you end up with the best bullshitters winning.
Everyone may know that, but few people realize that someone who has to read the same crap day after day will appreciate even the slightest deviation from the norm. If you are erudite enough to write coherently on any topic handed to you, you can pretty much do whatever you want. They'll take you.
"Hmm, I have to choose between some guy who apparently has a brain and penis and some guy who's trying his darndest to stick his tongue up my ass. What to do..."
You tit, the court doesn't "own" anything. He was in a public library, using a public machine to download public documents. Just because a library doesn't have a children's section doesn't mean it's super top secret.
I've never really understood the whole Mac vs. WIndows debate, and it's even more pointless now that you can have Mac, Win, and Linux running on the same box at the same time. Now, vi vs. emacs is a legitimate jihad.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys."
This is interesting because I have just finished pricing out a middle-range desktop at Newegg and have been comparing it to nearly identical prebuilt setups from the usual suspects.
They're pretty much identical in price.
I'll leave discovering why shipping an assembled system isn't as smart as shipping components as an exercise for the reader, but this also gives you fine-grain control over part quality. If that's not something you're concerned about, you should really just eat an extra fifty and go pick up an off-the-shelf from Best Buy.
Well, Bob tends to make a lot of predictions, and when you make a lot of predictions a fair number will turn out to be just plain wrong. What's 'interesting' about these failures is the chain of reasoning he'll use to reach conclusions. I think the PBS site has a lot of his old articles archived, so it should be easy to browse the titles for ones where he's prognosticating.
MAC Address Clone: Some ISP will require you to register your MAC address. If you do not wish to re-register your MAC address, you can have the router clone the MAC address that is registered with your ISP.
And he would certainly know, wouldn't he? World-reknowned expert that he is. On everything.
Cringely's more than a bit impressed with himself, and definitely has an opinion on every subject. He also puts some thought into what he says. When he's wrong (frequently) it's always for interesting reasons.
No, what's going to happen is that file sharing tech will shift to an even less centralized system, and the **AA will be once again left holding their dicks. The death of the original Napster showed us that these organizations don't really have the first idea as to what they'd like to accomplish, and they will constantly be playing catch-up.
What we're watching is the painful transition of these media organizations to, basically, advertising agencies. Production and distribution have gone from hugely costly endeavors to something you could do in your bedroom. What's left for them?
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So if I kill you online then I should be tried for first degree murder then?
I can't fully comprehend the confusion of mind that would lead to this sentence.
I like how people will assume that a country twenty or thirty times larger than theirs is completely homogenous. Must be all the alcohol, bad dentistry, and knife crimYOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
I believe this isn't the kind of behavior a restraining order is geared towards, but the article is pretty slim on details. You don't have to come into contact with someone to slander, defame, impersonate, and so forth. This seems like a legitimate use of a legitimate law, but I'm hoping that the result will be several hours of community service.
The real problem here is that we're reacting to the way technology impacts our society rather than anticipating it. I think we'd all agree that putting up a billboard reading "Jenny Smith of 123 Mockingboard Lane is a FAT CUNT" would get you into hot water, but put that online and, like our patent system, everything is different. So, in my opinion, we don't need "new" laws to cover "new" implementations of old behaviors. We need meta-laws that say "online behavior is analogous to real-world behavior in these circumstances".
I'd still go to http://192.168.1.2:81/ for testing
Dude, throw up a NSFW on links like that. You almost got me fired.
It seems to me that a lot of the older first persons really took advantage of a 3d environment, and that modern games go in for a more earth bound or "realistic" approach. Quake, UT and Tribes were all about rocket jumping, grappling hooks, and skiing. CoD has a 'crawl' button.
DEVELOPERS: Which of these modes of travel sounds like more fun?
Inane example yes but this sense of entitlement that some people have is sickening. By all means pirate but don't pretend you're not doing anything wrong by doing so.
Sense of entitlement vs. sense of moral superiority.... *reaches for popcorn*
No, it's not unfortunate. When I give money to a corporation in exchange for a product, my expectations for the money I end there. I get the item I paid for, and they get the money. If they want to spend the money on hookers and blow, I don't give a shit. There's no expectation that they'll spend the money in any particular way. It's a completely voluntary transaction.
That's not the case with the government. The government isn't selling a product. Taxes aren't voluntary. There's an expectation that tax money will be spent in a way that benefits everybody. That's the only reason we allow the government to take the money from us in the first place.
When a corporation spends money foolishly you can shop somewhere else or quit or whatever. When the government does it you're just screwed.
You guys are talking about two different things. He's saying that the private sector wouldn't really provide a better approach, and you're saying that the government shouldn't get involved in something like this. 'Should we do it' and 'how should we do it?' are two separate conversations.
You mean there isn't something magic about the distance from the phone to your head? I just assumed, with all the laws, that your brain stopped working when your elbow bent past a certain degree.
No he's dead on. I just signed up for a new phone and noticed similar language. If you read the fine print you see that it's basically an unspecified portion of your bill that's been given a name designed to make you think you're paying more in taxes than you are.
There have been a lot of claims made (completely unsupported by any scientific research) and a great deal of BAD science along the lines or correlation equals causation.
Oh what the fuck, man. Can you not take a class? Can you not even fucking call your local community college's geo prof? What the hell makes you think you're entitled to an opinion when you totally fail to educate yourself?
You are not entitled to an opinion when it comes to science. You need to earn this. This isn't an area where your touchy-feely republican sensibility will allow you to bullshit your way through life, this is an area where serious men with serious mustaches do real goddamn work.
Every one who's writing KNOWS exactly what the person reading it is looking for, and embellishes their life experience to fit that, thus making themselves look as good as possible. So you end up with the best bullshitters winning.
Everyone may know that, but few people realize that someone who has to read the same crap day after day will appreciate even the slightest deviation from the norm. If you are erudite enough to write coherently on any topic handed to you, you can pretty much do whatever you want. They'll take you.
"Hmm, I have to choose between some guy who apparently has a brain and penis and some guy who's trying his darndest to stick his tongue up my ass. What to do..."
Lay off him, man. Would you make fun of someone with a speech impediment? A typing impediment is much worse.
You tit, the court doesn't "own" anything. He was in a public library, using a public machine to download public documents. Just because a library doesn't have a children's section doesn't mean it's super top secret.
I did. Since that didn't happen. Read the article again.
I've never really understood the whole Mac vs. WIndows debate, and it's even more pointless now that you can have Mac, Win, and Linux running on the same box at the same time. Now, vi vs. emacs is a legitimate jihad.
((vi is better))
Let's see, you upload images and text onto Facebook. Now, what's stopping you from uploading the same images and text onto MySpace? _Nothing_.
TL;DR I don't use Facebook but you should listen to me anyhow because I'm providing an opposing viewpoint.
- from Good Omens
This is interesting because I have just finished pricing out a middle-range desktop at Newegg and have been comparing it to nearly identical prebuilt setups from the usual suspects.
They're pretty much identical in price.
I'll leave discovering why shipping an assembled system isn't as smart as shipping components as an exercise for the reader, but this also gives you fine-grain control over part quality. If that's not something you're concerned about, you should really just eat an extra fifty and go pick up an off-the-shelf from Best Buy.
Well, Bob tends to make a lot of predictions, and when you make a lot of predictions a fair number will turn out to be just plain wrong. What's 'interesting' about these failures is the chain of reasoning he'll use to reach conclusions. I think the PBS site has a lot of his old articles archived, so it should be easy to browse the titles for ones where he's prognosticating.
From a Linksys router administration page...
MAC Address Clone: Some ISP will require you to register your MAC address. If you do not wish to re-register your MAC address, you can have the router clone the MAC address that is registered with your ISP.
The lesson? Writing good software is time consuming and boring.
Fixed that for you.
And he would certainly know, wouldn't he? World-reknowned expert that he is. On everything.
Cringely's more than a bit impressed with himself, and definitely has an opinion on every subject. He also puts some thought into what he says. When he's wrong (frequently) it's always for interesting reasons.
2/3 of his requirements assume USB doesn't exist. Fuck yerb!
The simple truth is that SOME level of centralization will always provide a huge boost in speed
This is true if you're thinking small. And slow. ((I swear I'm not being an asshole, I'm being prescient!))
No, what's going to happen is that file sharing tech will shift to an even less centralized system, and the **AA will be once again left holding their dicks. The death of the original Napster showed us that these organizations don't really have the first idea as to what they'd like to accomplish, and they will constantly be playing catch-up.
What we're watching is the painful transition of these media organizations to, basically, advertising agencies. Production and distribution have gone from hugely costly endeavors to something you could do in your bedroom. What's left for them?