Surfing the web i've ended up with shortcuts to porn sites in my favourites and in my history - along with that, pictures in my internet cache. (and then when I go to type in a URL in Start->Run, fucking auto-complete puts in one of the addresses - that's always fun when you're at work, VNCing into your machine, and all your coworkers see something like www.hotpeanutbutterclits.com or something 0_0)
I've also seen people's pc's hacked and used to serve up free porn and warez.
This particular case may be unrealistic, but this sort of stuff is possible...
He was punished for sharing his opinions. This encourages people in the future to not share their opinions. He wasn't morally opposed to taking the money.
I didn't say that his first amendment rights were violated. It doesn't really matter though. He is Canadian (lives in the same city as me) and thus doesn't fall under the US constitution.
You have a good point though, so I won't debate it further (it was a rant, what do you expect:). I doubt the US govt would fund a guy that said he wanted to develop a weapon to use against the united states (here's your cheque, Dr. Collosus) but I don't think Theo falls in that category.
DARPA is claiming that it is more than his comment though - that's what I was asking about (What the hell does "capable nation states" mean?) but I haven't found an answer yet...
I know what I said was contradictory to the ideals of OSS. But just the same, it's too bad that someone can screw over OSS and then use it anyway - but that's what we signed on for and we have to live with it.
What I mean is, it's almost personal how OSS was screwed, but we can't get personal back. That's probably a good thing seeing as we can do stupid shit when we're emotional.
In any case, you are absolutely right - I was just ranting so take it with a grain of salt:)
Sorry, but much like spam, a blacklist approach to corporations is much to hard to maintain. Thus, I am starting a whitelist of corps I will still buy from or support.
I saw this story at globetechnology yesterday but didn't even try to submit it (I don't like feeding the zealots:) because it was being said by DARPA that it was just a misunderstanding and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Too bad they lied.
The really sad part? The US government can still use OpenBSD, even though they basically flipped them the bird. It would have been better if they had just never offered the funding at all.
This definately makes DARPA and the US Government look bad. Bastion of freedom of speech my ass. So what if Theo has some anti-war sentiments - that doesn't have any bearing on his development efforts.
Ok, ok, I'm ranting now. One question: What the hell does "capable nation states" mean?
What's funny is we have a sub-section of the WWW at Everything2 that seems to be heading in the direction of containing the sum of all human knowledge.
Or at least a summary of it.
Biggest problem is that people would rather write about themselves than node anything factual.
Did anyone think that the WWW would become so entertainment oriented?
My first website was a breath of fire 2 info-tastic spectacular (in fugly blue and black colours) so it was kinda both:)
Yes, I'm beginning to think maybe my definition of revolution may be a bit too narrow...
Perhaps we should include the peace movement, feminism, civil rights, etc... I guess it all depends on how you look at revolution.
I typically think of it as a power change initiated by an oppressed majority, but I guess it could also be initiated by an oppressed minority that gains popularity with the silent majority...
Has a revolution ever happened in a true democracy (or at least as true as you find in North America)?
Considering up here in Canada we've held referendums to determine if we should divide the country (first Quebec, and now Alberta is talking about it too) I find it hard to believe we would ever see such an event take place.
Even with Bush going a bit nuts with the whole "You must give up your rights to be safe, citizen." power grab in the US, he can easily be voted out at the next election. No revolution (violent or otherwise) necessary.
You need the support of the majority to have a revolution, otherwise it's called other things.
I'm of the opinion that if the voice doesn't sound British, they're wasting everyone's time. All audio books should be read by British people. It's probably some crappy free robotic sounding voice.
Hey, what would a british robot sound like?
[British]Crush! Kill! Destroy! Pip pip![/British]
(Incidently, I'm not British, but I work with one and somehow it's rubbing off on me. I actually said "bloody" the other day. Being Canadian, this could get downright messy. "This poutine bloody sucks, eh?" *shudder*)
Wouldn't a blind person already have a text-2-speech program to access the Internet and in turn use that to read the texts anyway?
A better use would be to automagically convert the text to [insert favourite format] so you could play it with your portable audio player? I listened to the LOTR and the Hobbit over several months in my MP3 player.
Course, these books would all sound like they were being read by Stephen Hawking, which would be wierd if we weren't listening to A Brief History of Time (which isn't public domain, afaik:).
Hey, that's a good idea! The only problem would be that using a markup language to indicate emotions could introduce subtle changes in the meaning of the text (ie/ bias of the transcriber).
Heh, I actually find myself agreeing with you, but I have a few counterpoints:
1) Things can catch my eye that wouldn't in an online paper. ie articles on the front of a section that I don't usually read or a little column that's hard to find in the online version (this happens a lot with the W.Post).
That depends, I suppose.
2) I can discuss the news by talking to people. Plus I get the visceral joy of seeing people.
I don't understand what you mean exactly(?) - I read the news on the Internet every day and I can see my fiance (when she's up with me). Course, most people don't keep their computer in the living room (connected to the dining room) like I do.
4) I don't have to click through five pages to read an article. The most I have to do is find a new page once.
Agreed, this is the worst part of news on the web.
5) Cheaper. I have yet to spend as much money on papers as I do on computers yearly.
Only if you use computers only for reading the news. Considering you are posting comments at a nerdy news site, I'm sure you have found other uses for your computer.;]
6) Comics. Yes, they're online, but seeing complete pages full of comics means about 100 times less effort to read them daily. (Counter-point: Web only comics are succesfully returning to the large formats that have been unused in newspapers for the last 70 years)
Agreed, and I would also add that the content of the comics can also be more specific as well. I personally enjoy Penny Arcade and PVP, neither of which would survive in a newspaper for very long.
7) I like going outside to get the paper every morning whether it's raining or not.
Outside? What's that? That's the big open area I pass through on my way to work, right?
I forgot about those specialized papers. I wonder if they will ever be replaced by a web equivalent. Seems like it would be even easier than a traditional paper, except you would have to market the URL well. I imagine it has been done, though.
I was looking for an apartment recently (and found a nice one) and used one of those freebie papers (magazine format, actually). I didn't use the web once during my apartment hunt (though I did the last time I moved).
Online papers have advantage over their paper counterparts as well.
1) I can read them at work at lunch w/o leaving my desk to buy one. 2) I can search for news relevant to me easily. 3) No ink on my hands. 4) I can discuss the news with others and often gain contextual information in the process (con: or I can get tricked into surfing to goatse.cx!) 5) Cheaper. 6) I can get news from different sources (thank you Google!)
I think that new technology (ie/ tablet pc), along with younger chaps like myself that grew up on computers, mean that eventually print news will lose a lot of market share. The numbers in the article seem to back me up on that.
I'm 23 years old and I hardly ever read the paper. I get all my news online (not just from Slashdot:) and occasionally from television. A lot of the older people I know still read newspapers, but even my boss at work gets a lot of news online.
I have a question though - how do traditional newspapers make money? Is it mostly ad revenue or is it from actual sales? Whats the split? Why did it take so long for web news to catch up?
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My cat ate an ink catridge once - and the little retard kept on chewing as ink was suprting out of the other end. Of course he (white as snow) didn't get any ink on him - it was all over my bed.
He was banished from my room for a few hours for that, but he sat outside looking so depressed that I gave in.
Dude, you must not know cats well. Of course he didn't get any ink on himself - he was just proving that he owns your ass.
(I speak as a guy that still has small scars from my cute widdle kitty kat from years ago:)
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Surfing the web i've ended up with shortcuts to porn sites in my favourites and in my history - along with that, pictures in my internet cache. (and then when I go to type in a URL in Start->Run, fucking auto-complete puts in one of the addresses - that's always fun when you're at work, VNCing into your machine, and all your coworkers see something like www.hotpeanutbutterclits.com or something 0_0)
I've also seen people's pc's hacked and used to serve up free porn and warez.
This particular case may be unrealistic, but this sort of stuff is possible...
He was punished for sharing his opinions. This encourages people in the future to not share their opinions. He wasn't morally opposed to taking the money.
:). I doubt the US govt would fund a guy that said he wanted to develop a weapon to use against the united states (here's your cheque, Dr. Collosus) but I don't think Theo falls in that category.
I didn't say that his first amendment rights were violated. It doesn't really matter though. He is Canadian (lives in the same city as me) and thus doesn't fall under the US constitution.
You have a good point though, so I won't debate it further (it was a rant, what do you expect
DARPA is claiming that it is more than his comment though - that's what I was asking about (What the hell does "capable nation states" mean?) but I haven't found an answer yet...
I know what I said was contradictory to the ideals of OSS. But just the same, it's too bad that someone can screw over OSS and then use it anyway - but that's what we signed on for and we have to live with it.
:)
What I mean is, it's almost personal how OSS was screwed, but we can't get personal back. That's probably a good thing seeing as we can do stupid shit when we're emotional.
In any case, you are absolutely right - I was just ranting so take it with a grain of salt
Sorry, but much like spam, a blacklist approach to corporations is much to hard to maintain. Thus, I am starting a whitelist of corps I will still buy from or support.
(Funny yet almost true...)
I saw this story at globetechnology yesterday but didn't even try to submit it (I don't like feeding the zealots :) because it was being said by DARPA that it was just a misunderstanding and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Too bad they lied.
The really sad part? The US government can still use OpenBSD, even though they basically flipped them the bird. It would have been better if they had just never offered the funding at all.
This definately makes DARPA and the US Government look bad. Bastion of freedom of speech my ass.
So what if Theo has some anti-war sentiments - that doesn't have any bearing on his development efforts.
Ok, ok, I'm ranting now. One question: What the hell does "capable nation states" mean?
you could turn turkey guts and plastics into oil and oil products!
Does this look legit? I am always wary of this kind of stuff, but there's no obvious reasons to doubt it - it isn't making fantastic claims...
What's funny is we have a sub-section of the WWW at Everything2 that seems to be heading in the direction of containing the sum of all human knowledge.
:)
Or at least a summary of it.
Biggest problem is that people would rather write about themselves than node anything factual.
Did anyone think that the WWW would become so entertainment oriented?
My first website was a breath of fire 2 info-tastic spectacular (in fugly blue and black colours) so it was kinda both
doesn't work in a lot of modern browsers. I wonder why....
It'll probably be that other song....
Doc Bruce Banner
Belted by gamma rays
turns into the Hulk
ain't he un-glam-or-
Meh, I hope not.
Yes, I'm beginning to think maybe my definition of revolution may be a bit too narrow...
Perhaps we should include the peace movement, feminism, civil rights, etc... I guess it all depends on how you look at revolution.
I typically think of it as a power change initiated by an oppressed majority, but I guess it could also be initiated by an oppressed minority that gains popularity with the silent majority...
Yes, against colonial powers, though I admit I know little of the US Civil War so feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong...
Has a revolution ever happened in a true democracy (or at least as true as you find in North America)?
Considering up here in Canada we've held referendums to determine if we should divide the country (first Quebec, and now Alberta is talking about it too) I find it hard to believe we would ever see such an event take place.
Even with Bush going a bit nuts with the whole "You must give up your rights to be safe, citizen." power grab in the US, he can easily be voted out at the next election. No revolution (violent or otherwise) necessary.
You need the support of the majority to have a revolution, otherwise it's called other things.
I'm of the opinion that if the voice doesn't sound British, they're wasting everyone's time. All audio books should be read by British people. It's probably some crappy free robotic sounding voice.
Hey, what would a british robot sound like?
[British]Crush! Kill! Destroy! Pip pip![/British]
(Incidently, I'm not British, but I work with one and somehow it's rubbing off on me. I actually said "bloody" the other day. Being Canadian, this could get downright messy. "This poutine bloody sucks, eh?" *shudder*)
Wouldn't a blind person already have a text-2-speech program to access the Internet and in turn use that to read the texts anyway?
:).
A better use would be to automagically convert the text to [insert favourite format] so you could play it with your portable audio player? I listened to the LOTR and the Hobbit over several months in my MP3 player.
Course, these books would all sound like they were being read by Stephen Hawking, which would be wierd if we weren't listening to A Brief History of Time (which isn't public domain, afaik
Hey, that's a good idea! The only problem would be that using a markup language to indicate emotions could introduce subtle changes in the meaning of the text (ie/ bias of the transcriber).
That depends, I suppose.
I don't understand what you mean exactly(?) - I read the news on the Internet every day and I can see my fiance (when she's up with me). Course, most people don't keep their computer in the living room (connected to the dining room) like I do.
Agreed, this is the worst part of news on the web.
Only if you use computers only for reading the news. Considering you are posting comments at a nerdy news site, I'm sure you have found other uses for your computer.
Agreed, and I would also add that the content of the comics can also be more specific as well. I personally enjoy Penny Arcade and PVP, neither of which would survive in a newspaper for very long.
Outside? What's that? That's the big open area I pass through on my way to work, right?
I forgot about those specialized papers. I wonder if they will ever be replaced by a web equivalent. Seems like it would be even easier than a traditional paper, except you would have to market the URL well. I imagine it has been done, though.
I was looking for an apartment recently (and found a nice one) and used one of those freebie papers (magazine format, actually). I didn't use the web once during my apartment hunt (though I did the last time I moved).
Online papers have advantage over their paper counterparts as well.
1) I can read them at work at lunch w/o leaving my desk to buy one.
2) I can search for news relevant to me easily.
3) No ink on my hands.
4) I can discuss the news with others and often gain contextual information in the process (con: or I can get tricked into surfing to goatse.cx!)
5) Cheaper.
6) I can get news from different sources (thank you Google!)
I think that new technology (ie/ tablet pc), along with younger chaps like myself that grew up on computers, mean that eventually print news will lose a lot of market share. The numbers in the article seem to back me up on that.
I'm 23 years old and I hardly ever read the paper. I get all my news online (not just from Slashdot :) and occasionally from television. A lot of the older people I know still read newspapers, but even my boss at work gets a lot of news online.
I have a question though - how do traditional newspapers make money? Is it mostly ad revenue or is it from actual sales? Whats the split? Why did it take so long for web news to catch up?
Dude, you must not know cats well. Of course he didn't get any ink on himself - he was just proving that he owns your ass.
(I speak as a guy that still has small scars from my cute widdle kitty kat from years ago
I can forgive spalling errors on Slashdot. But numbers? I'm tempted to make you my first foe! :P
Yeah. I guess Ozzie's hot in a biker sorta way, if you swing that wa-
Huh? First portable computer? Nevermind.
The Tandy Color Computer 2 Makes Learning Fun - even funnier. Anyone recognize the educational game SuperDork there is playing?
Hey, just like music consumers!
(Well, it's sorta funny