... that women don't enjoy sex. What's the purpose of this? BTW, the poster is waaaaay p-whipped - jeeeez. I know it's supposed to be funny, but I keep seeing these self(men)-denigrating comments all the time now. What is it with you guys? Dig deep and try to find your balls, for crying out loud...
... that we actually cheer when a politician we put into office for once stands up and protects our [fill in civic right of your choice]? I mean, when did things go so bad? (rhetorical question) It's sad that we all have gotten used to a status quo where our elected leaders work hand in hand with big business and constantly screw us over. I don't care what political affiliation you have - just take a step back and look what's going on in our country. I do feel very strongly about net neutrality but must also concede that it might be the least of our problem right now. Nevertheless, it is one of thousands of important issues that needs to be addressed and coming next election day we all should do our part and 'kick the bums out' (not my quote - start hearing that very frequently on Hardball recently). Anyway, sorry for the rant, but I'm trying to make a point here, which is that we need to take a step back and rebuilt our democracy - it's ridiculous that we continue to desperately grasp for a few breadcrumbs from an administration that's blatantly in bed with big business.
Of course this could find immediate applications in protecting our fresh water sources from radiation poisoning (accident or intentional). More importantly however, the long term benefit will be in figuring out how exactly the underlying process works and attempting to emulate or even improve it. The thought of being able to actively remove radiation from exposed material (not just liquids) is very exciting.
Bandwidth should be ubiquitous - as usual we are letting our fears drive our policies. I completely understand that the authorities want to be able to pinpoint who's using their connection to download child p0rn, send messages to known terrorist organizations, steal credit cards, or send spam. But the reality of it all is that the 'bad boys' already know how to protect themselves and how to obfuscate their identity. Add to this that 90% of all computers connected to the Internet are virus and trojan ridden (i.e. running Windows). So, this whole push to penalize people for using Internet connections wherever they are available is tantamount to the RIAA's effort to curb the proliferation of digital media, which thus far has proven to be an exercise in futility (since digital media inherently wants to be copied since it [most] always produces identical copies).
I see a huge opportunity here for some entity to encourage and drive the proliferation of [low cost] ubiquitous Internet access. Obviously in some way or fashion the wireless and mobile industries are working towards that goal, but it's far from being universally available. Again, the wrong paradim is being applied - we should encourage bandwidth to be used, not prevent others from accessing it. If I am able to share my bandwidth with my neighbors, and vice versa - we all win in the end and enjoy higher QoS. Also, the more we spread out the last 100 feet Internet access points the more efficient we are using our infrastructure as a whole. I know this sounds anarchistic to some extent, but right now we are moving into the exact opposite of the spectrum: bandwidth scaling, packet filtering, access restrictions wherever you turn. Is this how we imagined the Internet to turn into? If we let this trend continue, how is it going to wind up 10 or 20 years from now? Are we all going to be monitored/analyzed/profiled and at the same time 'herded' into tightly controlled pipes managed by large consolidated corporate monopolies? I hope WiMax will come to the rescue at some time - it's been promised for a long time and the roll out has been extremely slow.
I do agree with the comment, but disagree with calling this the 'Paul Graham Business Plan'. Paul has dozens of essays on his site which propel entrepreneurs to do exactly the opposite - produce real value by solving tough problems. He's also very adament to raise very little money at first and that too much money can actually kill a start-up. Anyway, take a look at his site: www.paulgraham.com
Yeah, I tried that and all was well for over six months. Then some idiot used one of those 'send page link to friend' links some site and they day after my spam started increasing steadily. Could have killed that guy for doing that. Moral of the story: it only takes one clueless idiot to flush a perfectly good email address down the toilet.
Actually your joke gave me an idea. What they should do is to print out all 100 Million names (not the rest of the info of course;-) on paper in 12 point type and present it to the new Congress in January. It's easy to quote these huge numbers - 100 Million or a Billion - nobody can really imagine how many that is. Print it out to get an idea how much potential damage we're looking at in the years to come.
The way things are going, it's just a matter of time until the personal info of anyone connected to the Internet will be exposed. The status quo is unacceptable - but somehow, no matter WHAT happens over here in the U.S. - it's always business as usual. How many papercuts will it take until citizens in this country start taking action?
I can't believe you fucking assholes and your calleous remarks. There are 6 Billion humans on the planet and we're counting some species by the dozen these days. Do you really want to live on a planet where almost all wildlife has been made extinct? Probably yes, judging by your narrow-minded stupid remarks. The problem is that these animals can't keep up with the progression of humans and the dwindling amount of wildlife zones. When are we going to fucking stop? When the entire planet is 'conquered' and no tree is left standing, having been replaced by parking lot for your damn Hummer?
LOL - why didn't I think of that analogy - hehehe. I really don't think that Bush is THAT stupid - he's simply a corrupt, inarticulate, arrogant SOB - sometimes I wish he was simply stupid...
Not sure the poster is looking for a serious response to this, but here it goes: I really don't think that any fanatic Muslims serious about comitting terrorist attacks against the U.S. care about our attitude. They are on a 'holy war' after all, their jihad and they are now seeking 'permission' from Mulsim leaders to kill tens of millions of us. Personally, and again that's just me Joe Shmoe talking: if they even commit one more act of senseless violence against innocent people in name of their fucking misguided religion I will personally sign up to drop a nuke or two on those assholes.
Being meek and apologetic won't get the West anywhere - if someone wants a fight so badly, I'd say, let's give it to them.
Considering all those medical advances related to enhancing the life of mice I must assume that our planet is run by a small group of super-enhanced labmice which managed to escape and take over.
Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!"
When do people get this into their thick heads: Correlation does not equal causation. I know this might not be the best application for quoting this, but the fact that nano particles were 'accidentally' used does not make this 'nanotechnology'. Yet another attempt to hype this new term and in the process completely obfuscate and dilute its true meaning. Nanotechnology is the science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules. I'm fairly certain the ancient Egyptians were a few steps behind that technological achievement. I'm even miffed when they call microparticles (e.g. sunscreens, lubricants, etc.) a result of 'nanotechnology' - it's a grayzone yes, but we should keep our definitions in check.
eXactly!! HD-DVD is not going to kill BlueRay - it's going to be DivX, XVid, H.264, etc.. Why bother creating these huge disks that nobody needs? Besides, the rest of the world (outside U.S.) is steadily increasing bandwidth while decreasing the cost to the consumer. People in Japan and Korea already download entire movies in a matter of minutes... I guess we might have that over here in the U.S. maybe by 2015, but I wouldn't bet my house on any of those storage standards/devices. The network is the computer - never was more true than today.
I understand that the advertisers would like to know, but this report is going to be ugly, IYKWIM. I for one have not watched a commercial for weeks, I only stop if I see some superhot chick or something really compelling by accident during skipping. After all, one of the major reasons people by a DVR is to be able to skip commercials. The mere assumption of advertisers that people watch more than a tiny amount of commercials after the purchase of a DVR shows how clueless they are (or maybe it's wishful thinking).
Your argument is specious - what's currently happening is 'artificial deflation of wages' and a lowering of the standard of living. Talk to your [non-CEO] working-class friends - they'll tell you their version of the 'gouging of the American work force'. At the same time cost go up all over the place... Wait, I know what your argument is going to be now: why don't we just go and invest in re-education? - LOL
Yes, this has completely gone out of hand. Call it 'domestic outsourcing' if you will - the end result is the same: hardworking and highly skilled American engineers have a tougher time finding a job. The H2B visa was never meant as a carde blanche for companies to replace native qualified workers with cheaper immigrant workers. It's time to nip this in the butt once and for all - surely the companies greatly enjoy this situation and it won't change or even get worse if we let 'the free market decide'.
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... that women don't enjoy sex. What's the purpose of this? BTW, the poster is waaaaay p-whipped - jeeeez. I know it's supposed to be funny, but I keep seeing these self(men)-denigrating comments all the time now. What is it with you guys? Dig deep and try to find your balls, for crying out loud...
... that we actually cheer when a politician we put into office for once stands up and protects our [fill in civic right of your choice]? I mean, when did things go so bad? (rhetorical question) It's sad that we all have gotten used to a status quo where our elected leaders work hand in hand with big business and constantly screw us over. I don't care what political affiliation you have - just take a step back and look what's going on in our country. I do feel very strongly about net neutrality but must also concede that it might be the least of our problem right now. Nevertheless, it is one of thousands of important issues that needs to be addressed and coming next election day we all should do our part and 'kick the bums out' (not my quote - start hearing that very frequently on Hardball recently). Anyway, sorry for the rant, but I'm trying to make a point here, which is that we need to take a step back and rebuilt our democracy - it's ridiculous that we continue to desperately grasp for a few breadcrumbs from an administration that's blatantly in bed with big business.
Of course this could find immediate applications in protecting our fresh water sources from radiation poisoning (accident or intentional). More importantly however, the long term benefit will be in figuring out how exactly the underlying process works and attempting to emulate or even improve it. The thought of being able to actively remove radiation from exposed material (not just liquids) is very exciting.
Maaaan - where are those moderator points when you need them...
Bandwidth should be ubiquitous - as usual we are letting our fears drive our policies. I completely understand that the authorities want to be able to pinpoint who's using their connection to download child p0rn, send messages to known terrorist organizations, steal credit cards, or send spam. But the reality of it all is that the 'bad boys' already know how to protect themselves and how to obfuscate their identity. Add to this that 90% of all computers connected to the Internet are virus and trojan ridden (i.e. running Windows). So, this whole push to penalize people for using Internet connections wherever they are available is tantamount to the RIAA's effort to curb the proliferation of digital media, which thus far has proven to be an exercise in futility (since digital media inherently wants to be copied since it [most] always produces identical copies).
I see a huge opportunity here for some entity to encourage and drive the proliferation of [low cost] ubiquitous Internet access. Obviously in some way or fashion the wireless and mobile industries are working towards that goal, but it's far from being universally available. Again, the wrong paradim is being applied - we should encourage bandwidth to be used, not prevent others from accessing it. If I am able to share my bandwidth with my neighbors, and vice versa - we all win in the end and enjoy higher QoS. Also, the more we spread out the last 100 feet Internet access points the more efficient we are using our infrastructure as a whole. I know this sounds anarchistic to some extent, but right now we are moving into the exact opposite of the spectrum: bandwidth scaling, packet filtering, access restrictions wherever you turn. Is this how we imagined the Internet to turn into? If we let this trend continue, how is it going to wind up 10 or 20 years from now? Are we all going to be monitored/analyzed/profiled and at the same time 'herded' into tightly controlled pipes managed by large consolidated corporate monopolies? I hope WiMax will come to the rescue at some time - it's been promised for a long time and the roll out has been extremely slow.
... to say that this really sucks. I used Anonymizer all the time....
Hey, they're just ASKING for it. I give it 10 weeks - tops.
I'm not surprised - one of them actually got elected twice as the U.S. president. Evolution is hard at work here...
Yeah, just what we needed - officials of a country with a long track record in crimes against humanity bent on 'cleaning up the Internet'.
I do agree with the comment, but disagree with calling this the 'Paul Graham Business Plan'. Paul has dozens of essays on his site which propel entrepreneurs to do exactly the opposite - produce real value by solving tough problems. He's also very adament to raise very little money at first and that too much money can actually kill a start-up. Anyway, take a look at his site: www.paulgraham.com
Yeah, I tried that and all was well for over six months. Then some idiot used one of those 'send page link to friend' links some site and they day after my spam started increasing steadily. Could have killed that guy for doing that. Moral of the story: it only takes one clueless idiot to flush a perfectly good email address down the toilet.
I think many of the people submitting their images to dating or adult sites should start worrying right now...
Actually your joke gave me an idea. What they should do is to print out all 100 Million names (not the rest of the info of course ;-) on paper in 12 point type and present it to the new Congress in January. It's easy to quote these huge numbers - 100 Million or a Billion - nobody can really imagine how many that is. Print it out to get an idea how much potential damage we're looking at in the years to come.
The way things are going, it's just a matter of time until the personal info of anyone connected to the Internet will be exposed. The status quo is unacceptable - but somehow, no matter WHAT happens over here in the U.S. - it's always business as usual. How many papercuts will it take until citizens in this country start taking action?
I can't believe you fucking assholes and your calleous remarks. There are 6 Billion humans on the planet and we're counting some species by the dozen these days. Do you really want to live on a planet where almost all wildlife has been made extinct? Probably yes, judging by your narrow-minded stupid remarks. The problem is that these animals can't keep up with the progression of humans and the dwindling amount of wildlife zones. When are we going to fucking stop? When the entire planet is 'conquered' and no tree is left standing, having been replaced by parking lot for your damn Hummer?
LOL - why didn't I think of that analogy - hehehe. I really don't think that Bush is THAT stupid - he's simply a corrupt, inarticulate, arrogant SOB - sometimes I wish he was simply stupid...
Not sure the poster is looking for a serious response to this, but here it goes: I really don't think that any fanatic Muslims serious about comitting terrorist attacks against the U.S. care about our attitude. They are on a 'holy war' after all, their jihad and they are now seeking 'permission' from Mulsim leaders to kill tens of millions of us. Personally, and again that's just me Joe Shmoe talking: if they even commit one more act of senseless violence against innocent people in name of their fucking misguided religion I will personally sign up to drop a nuke or two on those assholes.
Being meek and apologetic won't get the West anywhere - if someone wants a fight so badly, I'd say, let's give it to them.
Considering all those medical advances related to enhancing the life of mice I must assume that our planet is run by a small group of super-enhanced labmice which managed to escape and take over.
Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!"
When do people get this into their thick heads: Correlation does not equal causation. I know this might not be the best application for quoting this, but the fact that nano particles were 'accidentally' used does not make this 'nanotechnology'. Yet another attempt to hype this new term and in the process completely obfuscate and dilute its true meaning. Nanotechnology is the science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules. I'm fairly certain the ancient Egyptians were a few steps behind that technological achievement. I'm even miffed when they call microparticles (e.g. sunscreens, lubricants, etc.) a result of 'nanotechnology' - it's a grayzone yes, but we should keep our definitions in check.
I don't use Yahoo anymore - would love to use less Google as well.
eXactly!! HD-DVD is not going to kill BlueRay - it's going to be DivX, XVid, H.264, etc.. Why bother creating these huge disks that nobody needs? Besides, the rest of the world (outside U.S.) is steadily increasing bandwidth while decreasing the cost to the consumer. People in Japan and Korea already download entire movies in a matter of minutes... I guess we might have that over here in the U.S. maybe by 2015, but I wouldn't bet my house on any of those storage standards/devices. The network is the computer - never was more true than today.
You forgot the latest addition: UMD ;-)
I understand that the advertisers would like to know, but this report is going to be ugly, IYKWIM. I for one have not watched a commercial for weeks, I only stop if I see some superhot chick or something really compelling by accident during skipping. After all, one of the major reasons people by a DVR is to be able to skip commercials. The mere assumption of advertisers that people watch more than a tiny amount of commercials after the purchase of a DVR shows how clueless they are (or maybe it's wishful thinking).
Your argument is specious - what's currently happening is 'artificial deflation of wages' and a lowering of the standard of living. Talk to your [non-CEO] working-class friends - they'll tell you their version of the 'gouging of the American work force'. At the same time cost go up all over the place... Wait, I know what your argument is going to be now: why don't we just go and invest in re-education? - LOL
Sorry, I meant H-1B visas :-}
Yes, this has completely gone out of hand. Call it 'domestic outsourcing' if you will - the end result is the same: hardworking and highly skilled American engineers have a tougher time finding a job. The H2B visa was never meant as a carde blanche for companies to replace native qualified workers with cheaper immigrant workers. It's time to nip this in the butt once and for all - surely the companies greatly enjoy this situation and it won't change or even get worse if we let 'the free market decide'.