As for the "finding stuff I might be interested in", I think that we need some really good ways of doing it. Amazon is about the best we've got for computer based "finding stuff I might like", but I'd like more ways of customising it. For example, I would like to split it by genre. I'm writing a non-fiction book about science and pseudoscience and would like to seperate off in to a list for that, and a list for other interests.
Ways of tying books in with social networking (etc.) would be extremely cool.
Leave us bloggers out of it. Reality TV and IM are more akin to those bad teenage LiveJournals than proper blogs. There is a difference. Also, check out the various philosophy-related weblogs.
I'm tempted to have a metal plate made up with "This is a quiet coach. Please refrain from using your mobile phones." printed on it in large letters. I would show it to them, and if they don't pipe down, smack them round the head with it...
Don't piss off the geek in the corner (programming PHP/reading about evolutionary biology/writing a revolutionary political treatise) because they are likely to come and knock you senseless.;D
Indeed. I'm currently wi-fi-ing on an iBook, with 78% charge left and a predicted 2h 54m remaining. Considering that a train journey from the suburbs to London is about 40m to an hour, I don't think that my battery would run out during the journey.
You think that's good? Midland Mainline have a quiet carriage. Which means a "Shut the fuck up and stop using your mobile" carriage. It's bliss on those St. Pancras to Leicester journeys, especially when the chavs get on at Market Harborough.
Now if only they could give out free wi-fi, I'd use the train far, far more.
How about the RIAA set up a wireless AP in a very public spot. I dunno, Times Square, NY or Oxford Street in London or somewhere. Then set it up so it automatically responds to any HTTP request with a copy of Britney Spears' new album in MP3 format. Then send the thugs out to capture the people under the idea of "copyright infringement".
Oh, and that idea is MINE. So, you bastards at the RIAA can't use it! DMCA, EUCD, I'll find a way! Wait, I'll put it in Rot-13, and if you try and break that you're an offender. Heh heh.
Indeed. Stress relief. I'd rather I let stress out playing a bit of deathmatch on UT or Q3A or run down a few pedestrians in GTA than boil up all my negativity and rage and do it in real life (with all the real life consequences that entails).
I also find it amusing that "concerned parents" have such a problem with violent games yet still make their kids go to fscking church. At least gamers know the difference between fantasy and reality.
I agree. Ansel Adams is the coolest. He's the uber-haxor of photography. Camera, Negative and Print are all fantastic books and nobody should be allowed to leave any photography courses without reading them. Even if they ignore the geeky scientific bits, the idea that Adams' puts forwards are sound ones mostly centered around the rational use of technology.
So, are you advocating that we have to check every single possible protocol to determine whether or not it has 'legitimate uses'.
What is a legitimate use? Who makes that decision? Objective? Subjective?
It's not the protocol that we need to sort out, it's the content. The difference between Slashdot.org and KiddiePorn.com is quite a big one. But under the notion of 'legitamite use', one could unfairly make a decision that HTTP = bad based on the fact that KiddiePorn.com = bad and fail to take in to account that Slashdot (plus many other 'legitimate' websites) exist on that same protocol.
What burden of proof is required to tip the balance between good and bad?
Surely it would just be simpler if ISP's do what they are supposed to do: take TCP/IP packets from a user's computer and send them on their way, and deliver TCP/IP packets adressed to users to their right place. Then, quite simply, let the users sort out the usage of their connection with whoever has a problem with it.
Yes, I just sent an email to my local MP who just happens to be Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt. I await her response which I will put on my site.
No they wouldn't. You can start a private prosecution, as the family of Stephen Lawrence did, and numerous organisations (eg. the RSPCA) and businesses (eg. retailers) do to ensure that the case doesn't get dropped.
I just about agree with them economically and socially - I'm fairly moderate, and fall about half way between the two. But Blunkett has been a disaster - infringing so many civil liberties and messing up the carefully considered Constitutional law that has existed in Britain since the Magna Carta.
The sole good thing about Labour in terms of civil liberties is the fact that they implemented the Human Rights Act in 1998. ID cards is pointless, and the EUCD blows so much.
To all British citizens: write to your MP now and complain! I'm just drafting my email to my MP - you should too.
No, he's just saying that a party that used to be a socialist party representing trade unions etc. has sold out to post-Thatcherite conservative policies. Still, at least it's not as bad as having the Conservatives themselves.
Let's just say that your company's app is only useful to few people but has a few kickass subroutines that the developers of software that's not related but not a million miles away might be interested in. That's a good exmaple of open source because if they use your subroutines, then they have to do the whole viral thing and improve the breadth of open source software.
Also, don't underestimate - what may seem useless outside your organisation probably has many uses that people have never thought of until they have the freedom to hack it to bits and change things.
Slashdot Mirror
As for the "finding stuff I might be interested in", I think that we need some really good ways of doing it. Amazon is about the best we've got for computer based "finding stuff I might like", but I'd like more ways of customising it. For example, I would like to split it by genre. I'm writing a non-fiction book about science and pseudoscience and would like to seperate off in to a list for that, and a list for other interests.
Ways of tying books in with social networking (etc.) would be extremely cool.
Leave us bloggers out of it. Reality TV and IM are more akin to those bad teenage LiveJournals than proper blogs. There is a difference. Also, check out the various philosophy-related weblogs.
I'm tempted to have a metal plate made up with "This is a quiet coach. Please refrain from using your mobile phones." printed on it in large letters. I would show it to them, and if they don't pipe down, smack them round the head with it...
;D
Don't piss off the geek in the corner (programming PHP/reading about evolutionary biology/writing a revolutionary political treatise) because they are likely to come and knock you senseless.
Indeed. I'm currently wi-fi-ing on an iBook, with 78% charge left and a predicted 2h 54m remaining. Considering that a train journey from the suburbs to London is about 40m to an hour, I don't think that my battery would run out during the journey.
You think that's good? Midland Mainline have a quiet carriage. Which means a "Shut the fuck up and stop using your mobile" carriage. It's bliss on those St. Pancras to Leicester journeys, especially when the chavs get on at Market Harborough.
Now if only they could give out free wi-fi, I'd use the train far, far more.
Surely 802.11b/g would be the best way: get within range, it syncs up with your computer automatically.
Cue Soviet Russia joke.
How about the RIAA set up a wireless AP in a very public spot. I dunno, Times Square, NY or Oxford Street in London or somewhere. Then set it up so it automatically responds to any HTTP request with a copy of Britney Spears' new album in MP3 format. Then send the thugs out to capture the people under the idea of "copyright infringement".
Oh, and that idea is MINE. So, you bastards at the RIAA can't use it! DMCA, EUCD, I'll find a way! Wait, I'll put it in Rot-13, and if you try and break that you're an offender. Heh heh.
Indeed. Stress relief. I'd rather I let stress out playing a bit of deathmatch on UT or Q3A or run down a few pedestrians in GTA than boil up all my negativity and rage and do it in real life (with all the real life consequences that entails).
I also find it amusing that "concerned parents" have such a problem with violent games yet still make their kids go to fscking church. At least gamers know the difference between fantasy and reality.
I agree. Ansel Adams is the coolest. He's the uber-haxor of photography. Camera, Negative and Print are all fantastic books and nobody should be allowed to leave any photography courses without reading them. Even if they ignore the geeky scientific bits, the idea that Adams' puts forwards are sound ones mostly centered around the rational use of technology.
It's Iraq/Saddam goddamnit!
Obligatory Onion link
What about law nerds? We demand representation!!
So, are you advocating that we have to check every single possible protocol to determine whether or not it has 'legitimate uses'.
What is a legitimate use? Who makes that decision? Objective? Subjective?
It's not the protocol that we need to sort out, it's the content. The difference between Slashdot.org and KiddiePorn.com is quite a big one. But under the notion of 'legitamite use', one could unfairly make a decision that HTTP = bad based on the fact that KiddiePorn.com = bad and fail to take in to account that Slashdot (plus many other 'legitimate' websites) exist on that same protocol.
What burden of proof is required to tip the balance between good and bad?
Surely it would just be simpler if ISP's do what they are supposed to do: take TCP/IP packets from a user's computer and send them on their way, and deliver TCP/IP packets adressed to users to their right place. Then, quite simply, let the users sort out the usage of their connection with whoever has a problem with it.
Erk. ASP really sucks.
It gets broadcast to both of my stereo speakers...
Yes, I just sent an email to my local MP who just happens to be Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt. I await her response which I will put on my site.
No they wouldn't. You can start a private prosecution, as the family of Stephen Lawrence did, and numerous organisations (eg. the RSPCA) and businesses (eg. retailers) do to ensure that the case doesn't get dropped.
I just about agree with them economically and socially - I'm fairly moderate, and fall about half way between the two. But Blunkett has been a disaster - infringing so many civil liberties and messing up the carefully considered Constitutional law that has existed in Britain since the Magna Carta.
The sole good thing about Labour in terms of civil liberties is the fact that they implemented the Human Rights Act in 1998. ID cards is pointless, and the EUCD blows so much.
To all British citizens: write to your MP now and complain! I'm just drafting my email to my MP - you should too.
No, he's just saying that a party that used to be a socialist party representing trade unions etc. has sold out to post-Thatcherite conservative policies. Still, at least it's not as bad as having the Conservatives themselves.
Grim on iamcal recently imitated Mr. T to gain the confidence of a Liberian scamster, plus his exceptionally dodgy "lawyer" friend. Worth a look for shits and giggles.
Slightly worrying for a site called the "always on network"...
Let's just say that your company's app is only useful to few people but has a few kickass subroutines that the developers of software that's not related but not a million miles away might be interested in. That's a good exmaple of open source because if they use your subroutines, then they have to do the whole viral thing and improve the breadth of open source software.
Also, don't underestimate - what may seem useless outside your organisation probably has many uses that people have never thought of until they have the freedom to hack it to bits and change things.
They will get something in return... http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=68 6_0_1_0_C
Dude, have you ever been to Starbucks?
Same deal, same ripoff.
(And, yes, wifi 'wants' to be free)