I have a friend who worked for AOL at the Dulles VA facility. That's the facility built by AOL's short-lived stock money when they were bought by Time-Warner. She left years ago and eventually left due to the monotonous, oppressive working environment.
Now she is with a Civil Engineening firm (her original skill) and enjoying her life again.
My wife had a special satellite dish installed at our house so she could receive broadcasts from the Phillipines (Pinoys are wonderful wives!).
I mention this only to illustrate that our household receives information from other countries, something that this project might prevent.
Yes, my neck is bending from the weight of tinfoil on my head. Bush & Co. may attempt to put a strangehold on the mass media in the U.S. by blocking all outside information.
The internet renders such fantasies almost null and void except for the possibility of instituting filter controls on all network connections entering/leaving this country. Impossible? China has a head start on such a system.
...
... In a dark alleyway, a young child appearing no more than seven or eight years old scrambles among the trash.
... As a seagull attracted to the deadly shine of a fish hook, he notices a glint of light from the darkness. Cautiously approaching, he nears the source of luminescence.
... "Lea' me 'lone..." a voice moans from under a pile of rain-soaked newspapers. "I don' need your help," Kerry screams as he rises in drunken fury. "It wash Florida! Whol' damn Bush fam'ly is bed t'gether. Just leh'me drink mysel' ta death."
... "He's over here, Sir!" Whipping his young head around, the boy stared as one of new Stormtroopers came around the corner wearing infrared goggles, took aim and fired a 'warning shot' into the leg of the drunken hobo.
... Striding nearer, confident the escapee would no longer evade his fate, the 'trooper raises his automatic until a tiny green dot is centered on the forehead. "This'll teach you to talk about the 'affliction' of Commander Cheney's daughter."
... and all goes dark.
...
I need to leave this topic before this posting degenerates into a story of a dark future that rivals the fiction of Neal Stephenson.
Now consider the current state of our country in which sex is treated as a taboo subject. One to be joked about at the water cooler and snickered at by children. "Hahahaah...she said 'sex'!"
Pornography? Harvesting porn of the 'net is a hobby of mine, so I feel qualified to comment on the subject.
Quality adult movies are rare. The majority consisting of low-budget scenes recorded in cheap studios with mechanical actors.
What I treasure are the jewels, the "diamonds in the rough", that occasionally appear piles of slag which I collect. I do not even watch most of what I download (but I do save it, "just in case") and instead burn it directly to DVD.
Sex is good and if you don't like porn -- Don't watch it. But do not prevent another citizen of this country from enjoying their goatse.cx.
It is incredible that among the expected literati that might be expected to visit Slashdot, such opinions on sex can exist!
Research tantra and learn about the cleansing and revitalizing power of sex. And no, it's not about the positions in which you can manage to fsck but about the mental presence you maintain during fscking.
Dedicate yourself to your partner(s) during physical loving. Maintain an awareness of the pleasure and emotions being shared within the moment. Be conscious during the act!
On a more materialistic level and to repeat a common phrase, "It's all good." Discussions about the value of pornography, positions, sexual acts, etc. are pointless unless your consiousness and awareness are increased.
In light of the ruling that the DMCA cannot be applied in cases of fair-use, the prior ruling agains Jon should be presented to the courts for re-interpretation.
If a reverse-engineering of a product can be framed in terms of providing increased service to consumers or enabling service to those deprived because of physical handicap (deafness, blindness, vision problems, etc.) it is now legal because of this ruling against Lexmark.
Intuition tells me that the tide has only started to turn...
Pascal is a well respected language from the beginning of my foray into Computer Science.
The strong formatting of my preferred compiler then, THINK Pascal on the Macintosh, helped instill a respect for structure in my programs and formatting in my source code.
Many were the lessons learned in that era of youth and many were the tears shed when the things of youth were left behind for the toys of adulthood.
Who here doesn't love to browse the selection of ThinkGeek? Come 'hon... you know who you are...
China is simply an example of a country that is dying slower than the USA.
You cannot successfully restrict man's base nature. While not advocating legalized violence, I am a proponent of adopting mature views of sex and drugs.
Has Holland descended into anarchy because prostitution and drugs are legal? No. Remember, you can only plug the dike for so long before cracks cause the wall to fall.
Now that we are firmly down the path to Armageddon and the New World Order of Our Esteemed Leader Dubya, where can we get our replacement souls for when we check our conscience at the door?
I was running StumbleUpon and the Google toolbar for Firefox 0.9.3 and informed they were broken upon installing 1.0PR.
Did they find it necessary to brake APIs between 0.9.3 and the current version? The automatic update checker in Firefox can't fird updates for those two toolbars.
Most people who are afraid of robots attacking humans for "freedom" and so on are thinking too anthropomorphically.
But what happens when, as in the movie, the robot had intellectually evolved to the point where it was a self-aware entity capable of independent action?
Having skimmed the surface of the artical and the website I call bullshit on this article.
This person sought this patent for satisfaction of his ego, no more and no less. Through practiced use of complex verbage, he achieves a literary complexity and calls it the "Ten Laws of Robotics". My modification to Asimov's Laws, or the "Prime Directive of Pragmatic Robotics", achieve that to which he is trying to lay claim.
A robot may not act so that harm to a human is a _direct_consequence_.
I doubt that this Law can be torn asunder by the most skilled Philosophical dissectionist.
...how does TiVo get saved when they're really the only viable PVR in the mass consumer market?
How does a remark such as the above become moderated to level 5?
The Tivo PVR is functionally equivalent to the ReplayTV PVR. Neither has outstanding functionality. (Although the easily accessible commercial skip on the Replay is very nice. You don't have to hack through configuration screens to find the option as on the Tivo.)
The error here is to treat the Republican party as worthy of attention. Ignore them. Vote for Kerry.
In the media ruled days before the election, it can be difficult to remember an old truism: The Republicans are like schoolyard bullies, ignore them and they soon go away.
Now, if we can make the national religion something sensible like buddhism, this will occur much more quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a friend who worked for AOL at the Dulles VA facility. That's the facility
built by AOL's short-lived stock money when they were bought by Time-Warner.
She left years ago and eventually left due to the monotonous, oppressive working
environment.
Now she is with a Civil Engineening firm (her original skill) and enjoying her life again.
She never liked writing TPS reports.
My wife had a special satellite dish installed at our house so she could receive broadcasts from the Phillipines (Pinoys are wonderful wives!).
I mention this only to illustrate that our household receives information from other countries, something that this project might prevent.
Yes, my neck is bending from the weight of tinfoil on my head. Bush & Co. may attempt to put a strangehold on the mass media in the U.S. by blocking all outside information.
The internet renders such fantasies almost null and void except for the possibility of instituting filter controls on all network connections entering/leaving this country. Impossible? China has a head start on such a system.
...
... In a dark alleyway, a young child appearing no more than seven or eight years old scrambles among the trash.
... As a seagull attracted to the deadly shine of a fish hook, he notices a glint of light from the darkness. Cautiously approaching, he nears the source of luminescence.
... "Lea' me 'lone..." a voice moans from under a pile of rain-soaked newspapers. "I don' need your help," Kerry screams as he rises in drunken fury. "It wash Florida! Whol' damn Bush fam'ly is bed t'gether. Just leh'me drink mysel' ta death."
... "He's over here, Sir!" Whipping his young head around, the boy stared as one of new Stormtroopers came around the corner wearing infrared goggles, took aim and fired a 'warning shot' into the leg of the drunken hobo.
... Striding nearer, confident the escapee would no longer evade his fate, the 'trooper raises his automatic until a tiny green dot is centered on the forehead. "This'll teach you to talk about the 'affliction' of Commander Cheney's daughter."
...
I need to leave this topic before this posting degenerates into a story of a dark future that rivals the fiction of Neal Stephenson.
Touche, e brute.
I suggest that for an icon to represent the topic of China, we create an almagamation of subjects.
- Lack of freedom of speech
- Lack of freedom of assembly
- Lack of freedom of thought
- Lack of freedom of movement
- ...etc...
In general, create a hodge-podge of images that convey the impression of a dreary hell-hole of existence.Consider this following bit of logic.
Now consider the current state of our country in which sex is treated as a taboo subject. One to be joked about at the water cooler and snickered at by children. "Hahahaah...she said 'sex'!"
Pornography? Harvesting porn of the 'net is a hobby of mine, so I feel qualified to comment on the subject.
Quality adult movies are rare. The majority consisting of low-budget scenes recorded in cheap studios with mechanical actors.
What I treasure are the jewels, the "diamonds in the rough", that occasionally appear piles of slag which I collect. I do not even watch most of what I download (but I do save it, "just in case") and instead burn it directly to DVD.
Sex is good and if you don't like porn -- Don't watch it. But do not prevent another citizen of this country from enjoying their goatse.cx.
It is incredible that among the expected literati that might be expected to visit Slashdot, such opinions on sex can exist!
Research tantra and learn about the cleansing and revitalizing power of sex. And no, it's not about the positions in which you can manage to fsck but about the mental presence you maintain during fscking.
Dedicate yourself to your partner(s) during physical loving. Maintain an awareness of the pleasure and emotions being shared within the moment. Be conscious during the act!
On a more materialistic level and to repeat a common phrase, "It's all good." Discussions about the value of pornography, positions, sexual acts, etc. are pointless unless your consiousness and awareness are increased.
Tantra, It's not just a breakfast cereal anymore!
In light of the ruling that the DMCA cannot be applied in cases of fair-use,
the prior ruling agains Jon should be presented to the courts for re-interpretation.
If a reverse-engineering of a product can be framed in terms of providing
increased service to consumers or enabling service to those deprived
because of physical handicap (deafness, blindness, vision problems, etc.)
it is now legal because of this ruling against Lexmark.
Intuition tells me that the tide has only started to turn...
Pascal is a well respected language from the beginning of my foray into Computer Science.
The strong formatting of my preferred compiler then, THINK Pascal on the Macintosh, helped instill a respect for structure in my programs and formatting in my source code.
Many were the lessons learned in that era of youth and many were the tears shed when the things of youth were left behind for the toys of adulthood.
Who here doesn't love to browse the selection of ThinkGeek? Come 'hon ... you know who you are...
Reply Without Reading The F*sking Article
If a clueless person cannot simply walk to the kiosk and vote, ignoring all instruction, and have their vote registered -- The software isn't ready!
Why doesn't someone copy the software used in Brazil? They have e-voting and I am aware of no problems.
China is simply an example of a country that is dying slower than the USA.
You cannot successfully restrict man's base nature. While not advocating legalized violence, I am a proponent of adopting mature views of sex and drugs.
Has Holland descended into anarchy because prostitution and drugs are legal? No. Remember, you can only plug the dike for so long before cracks cause the wall to fall.
Surprisingly, I would assume /.'ers to be avid browsers of the Internet. Obvious, that's not the case.
Cases of monkeys walking on two legs, or Humanzees, are well known to science.
It is believed to be a result of brain damage during illness.
Perhaps these techniques can be applied to the never-ending task of creating an accurate converter for MS Word .doc-uments?
Yes, simple document conversion is possible but until 100% accuracy is possible the race is not won.
Now that we are firmly down the path to Armageddon and the New World Order of Our Esteemed Leader Dubya, where can we get our replacement souls for when we check our conscience at the door?
Star Wars used a blue screen backdrop, not green.
Help! I'm being overrun with nits and need help to pick them all!
I was running StumbleUpon and the Google toolbar for Firefox 0.9.3 and informed they were broken upon installing 1.0PR.
Did they find it necessary to brake APIs between 0.9.3 and the current version? The automatic update checker in Firefox can't fird updates for those two toolbars.
Hopefully they will fix the "Slashdot" rendering error in Firefox.
This is the one where the leftmost column in the Comments window overruns (by about 5 pixels) the middle comment column.
Most people who are afraid of robots attacking humans for "freedom" and so on are thinking too anthropomorphically.
But what happens when, as in the movie, the robot had intellectually evolved to the point where it was a self-aware entity capable of independent action?
Pressing the Submit button too quickly can cause undesired consequences.
Okay, that was a rewording of the First Law.
Instead, my meaning was No Robot shall act so that physical harm to a human is a direct consquence.
Having skimmed the surface of the artical and the website I call bullshit on this article.
This person sought this patent for satisfaction of his ego, no more and no less. Through practiced use of complex verbage, he achieves a literary complexity and calls it the "Ten Laws of Robotics". My modification to Asimov's Laws, or the "Prime Directive of Pragmatic Robotics", achieve that to which he is trying to lay claim.
A robot may not act so that harm to a human is a _direct_consequence_.
I doubt that this Law can be torn asunder by the most skilled Philosophical dissectionist.
How does a remark such as the above become moderated to level 5?
The Tivo PVR is functionally equivalent to the ReplayTV PVR. Neither has outstanding functionality. (Although the easily accessible commercial skip on the Replay is very nice. You don't have to hack through configuration screens to find the option as on the Tivo.)
The error here is to treat the Republican party as worthy of attention. Ignore them. Vote for Kerry.
In the media ruled days before the election, it can be difficult to remember an old truism: The Republicans are like schoolyard bullies, ignore them and they soon go away.
Now, if we can make the national religion something sensible like buddhism, this will occur much more quickly.
How does something, which has no intrinsic value, increase in price?
Yeah! Send them all to space.
The picture in my mind of a lawyer sucking vacuum and then shriveling into a frozen, parched corpsicle is very pleasing.
1. Yes, the current color scheme (a leight beige) ... sucks. Use a more positive color such a blue (remember?) and contrast the text.
2. Why can't Mozilla Firefox render the page correctly? The left column (with the username, preferences, etc.) overlaps the comment area.
When will someone port NetBSD/Linux/your-OS-of-choice to run on it?