> We are addicted to information and seek it even when we know it's not available
What the hell does he mean by "not available"?
It's plenty available!
I mean,
I watched the cute Flash animation for ThinkGeek and got my Day Pass. I see the article in the Mysterious Future. I click on it. It's under construction. I click on it again. It's still under construction. I click on it again. I [several hundred pageviews omitted in the interest of brevity] click on it again - at last! I can post!
> NewScientist.com is reporting [...the ] technique will be used to target diseases caused by single-gene mutations such as combined immune deficiency (X-SCID) - or bubble boy disease - and sickle cell anaemia."
> > Just wondering.
Funny you should ask. I just got this video from Paul Simon.
It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every moderator throws a hero up the crackpipe
Singin' filk is magical and magical is pain,
think of the boy in the plastic bubble
I'm a Slashbot with a baboon brain
(And I believe)
These are the days of lasers on a shark's head,
Lasers on a shark's head somewhere,
Staccato signals of constant information,
A loose affilliation of megabytes
And gigabytes and baby...
These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is a long-distance boast,
The way the duplicate posts appear in slo-mo,
The way we go for first post.
The way we look to a Netcraft BSD troll,
That's dying like a server at NewSci,
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry...
...and is therefore irrelevant in a Parliamentary system. Unlike the States, where Representatives and Senators can attach riders, opposition parties in parliamentary systems typically have zero say in what goes into laws.
And this, being a petition, is even weaker than an amendment to a bill.
I've re-parsed and summarized the article:
>
This isn't just a Web click-through petition that politicians can
freely ignore; more than a thousand real hardcopy signatures have
already been collected
> Of course, there's a link to the site in question, but as is asked of Wikipedia all the time, what level of accountability is there that this information is correct?
Shh! The first time someone asked Google that, the damn thing went into recursive mode and blew out three server clusters before the sysadmin team could shut it down!
> For those of you privacy advocates out there you will love Patent No. 5,872,588: Method and apparatus for monitoring audio-visual materials presented to a subscriber.
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that
Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up
by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which
the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was
of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given
moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on
any individual wire was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched
everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire
whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that
became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard,
and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
- Some dude, prior art, ca. 1948
Even as a junior employee, George was always better at writing functional specifications than literature.
> But the real question is, does he always get the replay?
Sits there like a statue, reloads like a machine,
Clicks on the day passes, gets the first post clean,
Smokes crack like he's got mod points, never seen him fall,
That insensitive clod - Slashdotting Stern pinball!
He's a Slashdot wizard, there has to be a twist!
None of my business where he got those supple wrists...
MCNEALY:
Yes. I am the keeper of a greater magic.
A power known throughout the universe, known as....
ESR:
Open Source?
MCNEALY:
No. The Schwartz.
RMS:
The Schwartz?
MCNEALY:
Yes. The Schwartz.
[He holds his Schwartz ring. His is different than the ring BILL GATES has.]
ESR:
But, McNealy, what is this place? What is that you do here?
MCNEALY:
Licensing.
ESR:
Licensing? What's that? (Keep out of this, RMS!)
MCNEALY:
Licensing. Come. I'll show.
Walk this way.
Take a look. We put the company's copyright on everything.
Licensing. Licensing.
Where the real money from the software is made.
Sun-the-Server,
Solaris-the Operating System,
UltraSPARC-the Pizza box,
Sun-the-dot-in-dot-com.
(The analysts loved that one.)
Last, but not least, Sun-the-Doll.
Me!
[pulls on the string]
DOLL:
"May the Schwartz be with you!"
MCNEALY:
It ain't the Steve Ballmer Monkeyboy Dancebot, but it sells.
May the Schwartz be with you!
> "Age 16 and older: The passport fee is $55. The security surcharge is $12. The execution fee is $30. The total is $97." - travel.state.gov What a waste of money!
Yeah. I paid my $30, and I still haven't been executed!
>
Currently, Canadians and Americans are able to enter the United States
with little more identification than a driver's licence or a birth
certificate, though a passport has sometimes made it simpler to
satisfy immigration officers at the border.
What's the big deal? Canadians and Americans still don't need
passports to get home, nor do they need to worry about fingerprinting.
If you're an American without a passport, just come back through
California, Mexico, and Arizona. The desert's hot, you'll pick up
lots of dust, and after a few days' hiking, you'll have picked up
a nice Mexican tan. Se Habla Espanol! You're in!
If you're a Canadian without a passport, remember that
you're
indistinguishable from the American as long as you remember
to pronounce it "owwwwt" (like you stubbed your toe), instead
of "oot" (like if you're going oot and aboot), and if you can
pretend that Budweiser is beer for a few days. Grab a six-pack
of Bud for your American friend and follow him across the desert.
Then take a US domestic flight (for which no passport is required)
to New York State. Go to the Six Nations Reserve and offer to
haul some smokes 'n' booze in across the St. Lawrence.
If it's winter, you can even walk home, eh?
Or remotely sniff the RFID off some
other poor schlub and just use his passport.
Seriously, what's the big deal? Don't have a passport, go to Mexico, eh?:)
> Remember 'toothing'? It was a craze that was sweeping England last year as bored commuters arranged sexual encounters using Bluetooth-enabled cellphones. You probably read about it over at Wired or Reuters or the BBC. There's a decent chance you even blogged about it. Well. What happened?
Those who read about it, never blogged about it.
Those who blogged about it, never read about it.
Those who remember it, were too busy to either read about it or blog about it.
Being a geek, I'm kind of amazed I even wasted the time to read about it.
> I'm not quite sure where you're going with the whole right/privilege distinction, either. It seems to me that a guy with a gun could compel you into being silent just as easily as he could compel you into talking, or, for that matter, clucking like a chicken, making amateur porn films, or pretty much anything else. That has no bearing on the rights and protections granted by the Constitution, or the manner in which they are enforced.
Where we differ is in what rights and protections are granted by the Constitution. I argue that "none at all" is a fair summation.
It may not be what the Framers intended, but it's what we've got. We're a nation of men, not a nation of laws. For proof, look to anything from the intellecutal property lawsuits (Mickey Mouse Protection Act, DMCA, Betamax precedent now under fire) to the Schiavo Circus two weeks ago.
> The Ninth Circuit doesn't have a whole lot of patience for this kind of crap. If it's actually passed, I give it a week before there's a federal injunction staying its enforcemet, and approximately a snowball's chance in hell of it being upheld.
This is, the Ninth Circuit court you're talking about, right?
The Supreme Court doesn't have a whole lot of patience for the Ninth Circuit's crap either:)
> Nevertheless, any SF voters should take very careful note of 1) who proposed this fascist idea, and 2) who voted for it.
As the ordinance hasn't passed, I'll let that slide. Otherwise, up against the wall, motherfucker!
> Freedom of speech is a right. A right can not be taken away.
>Rewrite the Bill Of Rights, Rewrite the Constitution. Burn them for all that it matters. Those documents are nothing but paper.
>None of those actions can take away my right to free speech.
An officer's gun pointed at your head when you refuse to pay your blogger's registration fees (or the fines for failure to pay your BRF), however, is pretty damn effective.
You have the privilege to speak. You have the right to remain silent.
> an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time
Don't know about monkeys, but an infinite number of Texans with an infinite number of shotguns, and a long enough stretch of Interstate highway, will produce a perfect script for Hamlet, albeit in Braille.
WTF? I can see the s. Can't everyone else?
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> Even if the first couple of knockoffs were funny, like any joke that is told too much, the become not funny over time. These are beyond not funny. RFC 1149 is still funny but all of these subsequent attempts are just lame. People should really know when to stop flogging a dead horse.
But that's precisely the problem they're trying to address! If every system were RFC-4041 compliant, cessation of sadomasonecrobestiality wouldn't be such a problem now, would it?
Slashdot Mirror
What the hell does he mean by "not available"?
It's plenty available!
I mean, I watched the cute Flash animation for ThinkGeek and got my Day Pass. I see the article in the Mysterious Future. I click on it. It's under construction. I click on it again. It's still under construction. I click on it again. I [several hundred pageviews omitted in the interest of brevity] click on it again - at last! I can post!
>
> Just wondering.
Funny you should ask. I just got this video from Paul Simon.
It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every moderator throws a hero up the crackpipe
Singin' filk is magical and magical is pain, think of the boy in the plastic bubble
I'm a Slashbot with a baboon brain
(And I believe)
These are the days of lasers on a shark's head,
Lasers on a shark's head somewhere,
Staccato signals of constant information,
A loose affilliation of megabytes
And gigabytes and baby...
These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is a long-distance boast,
The way the duplicate posts appear in slo-mo,
The way we go for first post.
The way we look to a Netcraft BSD troll,
That's dying like a server at NewSci,
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry...
And this, being a petition, is even weaker than an amendment to a bill.
I've re-parsed and summarized the article:
> This isn't just a Web click-through petition that politicians can freely ignore; more than a thousand real hardcopy signatures have already been collected
Shh! The first time someone asked Google that, the damn thing went into recursive mode and blew out three server clusters before the sysadmin team could shut it down!
Even as a junior employee, George was always better at writing functional specifications than literature.
> Yahoo! search for `xyzzy' [yahoo.com]
"Results 1 - 10 of about 165,000 for xyzzy- 0.02 sec."
Nothing happens.
> Google search for `xyzzy' [google.com]
"Results 1 - 10 of about 287,000 for xyzzy. (0.24 seconds)"
Almost twice as much nothing happens.
A hollow voice says "Who do you think you are, Scott Adams?"
Sits there like a statue, reloads like a machine,
Clicks on the day passes, gets the first post clean,
Smokes crack like he's got mod points, never seen him fall,
That insensitive clod - Slashdotting Stern pinball!
He's a Slashdot wizard, there has to be a twist!
None of my business where he got those supple wrists...
MCNEALY: Yes. I am the keeper of a greater magic. A power known throughout the universe, known as....
ESR: Open Source?
MCNEALY: No. The Schwartz.
RMS: The Schwartz?
MCNEALY: Yes. The Schwartz. [He holds his Schwartz ring. His is different than the ring BILL GATES has.]
ESR: But, McNealy, what is this place? What is that you do here?
MCNEALY: Licensing.
ESR: Licensing? What's that? (Keep out of this, RMS!)
MCNEALY: Licensing. Come. I'll show. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the company's copyright on everything. Licensing. Licensing. Where the real money from the software is made. Sun-the-Server, Solaris-the Operating System, UltraSPARC-the Pizza box, Sun-the-dot-in-dot-com. (The analysts loved that one.) Last, but not least, Sun-the-Doll. Me!
[pulls on the string]
DOLL: "May the Schwartz be with you!"
MCNEALY: It ain't the Steve Ballmer Monkeyboy Dancebot, but it sells. May the Schwartz be with you!
Yeah. I paid my $30, and I still haven't been executed!
What's the big deal? Canadians and Americans still don't need passports to get home, nor do they need to worry about fingerprinting.
If you're an American without a passport, just come back through California, Mexico, and Arizona. The desert's hot, you'll pick up lots of dust, and after a few days' hiking, you'll have picked up a nice Mexican tan. Se Habla Espanol! You're in!
If you're a Canadian without a passport, remember that you're indistinguishable from the American as long as you remember to pronounce it "owwwwt" (like you stubbed your toe), instead of "oot" (like if you're going oot and aboot), and if you can pretend that Budweiser is beer for a few days. Grab a six-pack of Bud for your American friend and follow him across the desert. Then take a US domestic flight (for which no passport is required) to New York State. Go to the Six Nations Reserve and offer to haul some smokes 'n' booze in across the St. Lawrence. If it's winter, you can even walk home, eh?
Or remotely sniff the RFID off some other poor schlub and just use his passport.
Seriously, what's the big deal? Don't have a passport, go to Mexico, eh? :)
Note to poster: DEADFEDDEADFEADDEADFED is also a poor choice.
What do you mean "might have been?" :)
Those who read about it, never blogged about it.
Those who blogged about it, never read about it.
Those who remember it, were too busy to either read about it or blog about it.
Being a geek, I'm kind of amazed I even wasted the time to read about it.
Where we differ is in what rights and protections are granted by the Constitution. I argue that "none at all" is a fair summation.
It may not be what the Framers intended, but it's what we've got. We're a nation of men, not a nation of laws. For proof, look to anything from the intellecutal property lawsuits (Mickey Mouse Protection Act, DMCA, Betamax precedent now under fire) to the Schiavo Circus two weeks ago.
This is, the Ninth Circuit court you're talking about, right?
The Supreme Court doesn't have a whole lot of patience for the Ninth Circuit's crap either :)
> Nevertheless, any SF voters should take very careful note of 1) who proposed this fascist idea, and 2) who voted for it.
As the ordinance hasn't passed, I'll let that slide. Otherwise, up against the wall, motherfucker!
>Rewrite the Bill Of Rights, Rewrite the Constitution. Burn them for all that it matters. Those documents are nothing but paper.
>None of those actions can take away my right to free speech.
An officer's gun pointed at your head when you refuse to pay your blogger's registration fees (or the fines for failure to pay your BRF), however, is pretty damn effective.
You have the privilege to speak. You have the right to remain silent.
It's not news, and it's not Fark.com either!
Nothing exists to see here. If I existed and I thought you also existed, I'd ask you to move along.
I think we should get CmdrTaco the STFU and GBT-oh, wait, this is his job.
Never mind.
Don't know about monkeys, but an infinite number of Texans with an infinite number of shotguns, and a long enough stretch of Interstate highway, will produce a perfect script for Hamlet, albeit in Braille.
Fnord, fnord fnord
fnord fnord fnord,
fnord fnord
fnordfnordfnord.fnord.fnord, fnord
fnord!
"
I don't get it. Why's everybody talking about a blank article?
But that's precisely the problem they're trying to address! If every system were RFC-4041 compliant, cessation of sadomasonecrobestiality wouldn't be such a problem now, would it?
Zed: his .JPG of you says you don't got no purty mouth.
Maynard: Bring out the GIMP.
Zed: The GIMP's sleeping.
Maynard: Well I guess you'll have to kill - SIGALRM it, won't you?
"Anything that isn't nailed down is ours."
"Anything we can pry loose, isn't nailed down."
"Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to pay for it himself."
With apologies to Craig Thomas and Clint Eastwood.