If you're going to do that, I'm going to patent the gesture one can make to the patent office for accepting ideas that waste their time, and court time. I call it the middle finger salute.
The cell phone idea is strange, since you have your head turned down more now to see the screen. Although it's similar to what they did with laptops - moving the keyboard against the monitor, instead of the front edge of the base.
It's that new Vista DRM feature, brought to you by the fine people at Nvidia: Doesn't Really Matter (DRM) technology ensures that if you have a complaint, you can't visit an Nvidia or Microsoft website to lodge it.
e-voting is unsuitable for anything more serious than who people think will supplant Britney Spears as the next queen of teen pop.
Diebold voting is a fraud, and it happens right in front of the user, on a dedicated machine. The voter can't even see their marked ballot go into a container for verification in the event of computer fraud! It's a sham.
It's about random discovery (not content quality). Not quite like the Google I'm Feeling Lucky button, but close. And you know the blog isn't spam as it's been human added.
Plus a teacher or student could borrow or burn a CD, where they might not have a USB key or CD burner in the school to get a downloaded file onto their dialup computer at home.
The Bidding Board on eBay's forums used to hunt people shill bidding down. Since the change, I'm sure most have given up, since clues like similar bidder names have been concealed. Bad eBay, caving in to the fraudsters, and walking into yet another trap.
Something like Digg, or Stumble Upon, is how many web users surf. It's the latest in Channel Hopping, and I think it's here to stay.
The latest craze on the web is a 2000 Bloggers meme, where the photos of the blogmasters link to their website, giving people a random way to surf the blogosphere based on the looks of the author.
I've started a movement called the Teleban designed to Ban TV once and for all. We're doing it for the children of the world.
I've already seen the Internet revolutionize how I watch TV. I watch about 5% of what I used to, and most shows I watch on the Internet or from Bit Torrent instead. I haven't seen more than ads for American Idol in years, and that's a Good Thing (TM).
I have a Suffle, and it's limited by DRM. I can't use the software the manufacturer designed for it, and they don't really let another company create competing firmware for it. If you put songs on it using iTunes, you get screwed by DRM.
You haven't seen very small towns then in SK. Where I came from, there were two farms on the edge of town, large gardens for everyone, better water than most farms, and berry bushes growing wild.
AC his analogy is horrible on many levels. One, the heat just keeps coming from the sun and isn't like a house where the furnace shuts off when it gets to be 22 degrees C. Try putting so many blankets on with the thermostat cranked to the max and get back to me.
"I'm just not jumping on the bandwagon when I smell the stench of a political agenda."
You mean you aren't working toward creating a sustainable and ecologically friendly economy right? You're scared of planned human change, but don't give a fig if unplanned climate change ravishes us. That's the epitome of an irresponsible approach, especially when you don't deny that climate change is happening.
The bandwagon as you call it, is headed toward making our environment last longer, even if it changes how our economy works. We know our economy can't last forever, so it's better that we change it on our own terms instead of waiting for the weather to do it for us.
You buy into the real myth, that we'd "wreck" every economy by going green and sustainable. By definition, you SAVE every economy and simply change the culture of each society by creating a sustainable and ecologically interdependent economy and moving us away from a consumption-capitalistic economy.
If only people would accept that pollution is bad for us, and agree that we need to reduce it. Climate Change is only one reason of many to reduce pollution, so if you don't agree there is human caused climate change, FIND ANOTHER REASON to find a way to reduce pollution. I'd have never thought when growing up that so many people could be so stupid as to argue for more pollution, "because money is good" is their primary reasoning.
I had thought that line of commenting was unusual for you. I think whether we like it or not though, optics has a role to play with directing public thought on the Internet, and unless we throw ourselves into fighting pollution without a lot of caveats that stupid people can't understand because they lack education, we won't turn the tide on climate change denial.
"The irony of our modern civilization is how incredibly inhuman it is. Our cities are most notable for being entirely devoid of the things necessary to sustain human life, all of which must be provided from outside."
Bravo, well said. I think in your bike/antibiotic society if there are apple trees on every corner, and berry bushes in every gully, count me in.
I don't like how DNS is run at all. The business with phishing sites, and name stealing is bad enough, but if.xxx is bad because places might block it, why isn't.ca or.org bad?
Why don't we just have everything be.com and then we don't have to remember if our site is ebay.com or ebay.ca or ebay.xxx or ebay.org etc..
No, but it looks like you're OK with us polluting willy nilly when we know other byproducts of combustion that turns fossil fuel into air carbon, are killing us and given us increased rates of cancer and asthma.
An interesting "blanket" theory I've not heard before. The problem is, the earth is not a warm blooded mammal that can SWEAT! Shit, I don't typically swear but that's a fucking stupid talking point.
-Pardon my french, I'm trying a new tact with CO2 lovers this weekend.
So Global Warming looks like a comet? Good thing McNaught isn't going to hit us, eh?;-)
It's sad that there's a massive following of climate change deniers online, but such is the nature of the Internet - even the kooks have large communities that can email millions of people.
Slashdot Mirror
That reminds me, I need to download a movie.
Thank goodness for Bit Torrent, and freedom in Canada.
If you're going to do that, I'm going to patent the gesture one can make to the patent office for accepting ideas that waste their time, and court time. I call it the middle finger salute.
The cell phone idea is strange, since you have your head turned down more now to see the screen. Although it's similar to what they did with laptops - moving the keyboard against the monitor, instead of the front edge of the base.
It's that new Vista DRM feature, brought to you by the fine people at Nvidia:
Doesn't Really Matter (DRM) technology ensures that if you have a complaint, you can't visit an Nvidia or Microsoft website to lodge it.
e-voting is unsuitable for anything more serious than who people think will supplant Britney Spears as the next queen of teen pop.
Diebold voting is a fraud, and it happens right in front of the user, on a dedicated machine. The voter can't even see their marked ballot go into a container for verification in the event of computer fraud! It's a sham.
It's about random discovery (not content quality). Not quite like the Google I'm Feeling Lucky button, but close. And you know the blog isn't spam as it's been human added.
"whoosh"
A very scary noise, when one talks about penises, and feet, in the same breath.
(kick?)
I'd heard it called Protected Video Path in the past.
TPM, DRM, PVP, PMP,
It's all Geek to me.
Why can't Microsoft let us be,
All we want is to be free.
Plus a teacher or student could borrow or burn a CD, where they might not have a USB key or CD burner in the school to get a downloaded file onto their dialup computer at home.
Was it a little bit like Archive.org?
I know I'd be interested in finding out how badly people needed more inches and V!agr4 in the good ol' days.
The Bidding Board on eBay's forums used to hunt people shill bidding down. Since the change, I'm sure most have given up, since clues like similar bidder names have been concealed. Bad eBay, caving in to the fraudsters, and walking into yet another trap.
Something like Digg, or Stumble Upon, is how many web users surf. It's the latest in Channel Hopping, and I think it's here to stay.
The latest craze on the web is a 2000 Bloggers meme, where the photos of the blogmasters link to their website, giving people a random way to surf the blogosphere based on the looks of the author.
The fad is about to be over.
I've started a movement called the Teleban designed to Ban TV once and for all. We're doing it for the children of the world.
I've already seen the Internet revolutionize how I watch TV. I watch about 5% of what I used to, and most shows I watch on the Internet or from Bit Torrent instead. I haven't seen more than ads for American Idol in years, and that's a Good Thing (TM).
I have a Suffle, and it's limited by DRM. I can't use the software the manufacturer designed for it, and they don't really let another company create competing firmware for it. If you put songs on it using iTunes, you get screwed by DRM.
You haven't seen very small towns then in SK. Where I came from, there were two farms on the edge of town, large gardens for everyone, better water than most farms, and berry bushes growing wild.
AC his analogy is horrible on many levels. One, the heat just keeps coming from the sun and isn't like a house where the furnace shuts off when it gets to be 22 degrees C. Try putting so many blankets on with the thermostat cranked to the max and get back to me.
Geothermal energy is a moot point.
"I'm just not jumping on the bandwagon when I smell the stench of a political agenda."
You mean you aren't working toward creating a sustainable and ecologically friendly economy right? You're scared of planned human change, but don't give a fig if unplanned climate change ravishes us. That's the epitome of an irresponsible approach, especially when you don't deny that climate change is happening.
The bandwagon as you call it, is headed toward making our environment last longer, even if it changes how our economy works. We know our economy can't last forever, so it's better that we change it on our own terms instead of waiting for the weather to do it for us.
You buy into the real myth, that we'd "wreck" every economy by going green and sustainable. By definition, you SAVE every economy and simply change the culture of each society by creating a sustainable and ecologically interdependent economy and moving us away from a consumption-capitalistic economy.
If only people would accept that pollution is bad for us, and agree that we need to reduce it. Climate Change is only one reason of many to reduce pollution, so if you don't agree there is human caused climate change, FIND ANOTHER REASON to find a way to reduce pollution. I'd have never thought when growing up that so many people could be so stupid as to argue for more pollution, "because money is good" is their primary reasoning.
I had thought that line of commenting was unusual for you. I think whether we like it or not though, optics has a role to play with directing public thought on the Internet, and unless we throw ourselves into fighting pollution without a lot of caveats that stupid people can't understand because they lack education, we won't turn the tide on climate change denial.
"The irony of our modern civilization is how incredibly inhuman it is. Our cities are most notable for being entirely devoid of the things necessary to sustain human life, all of which must be provided from outside."
Bravo, well said. I think in your bike/antibiotic society if there are apple trees on every corner, and berry bushes in every gully, count me in.
I don't like how DNS is run at all. The business with phishing sites, and name stealing is bad enough, but if .xxx is bad because places might block it, why isn't .ca or .org bad?
.com and then we don't have to remember if our site is ebay.com or ebay.ca or ebay.xxx or ebay.org etc..
Why don't we just have everything be
"Curiosity killed the dinosaurs."
I didn't know they were like felines. Do you have a reference, perhaps on Wikipedia or Uncyclopedia to back this up?
"
No, I am not a global warming denier."
No, but it looks like you're OK with us polluting willy nilly when we know other byproducts of combustion that turns fossil fuel into air carbon, are killing us and given us increased rates of cancer and asthma.
If by Dinosaurs you mean Senators, then yeah, I expect Bush to throw a House Warming party in Gitmo when they vote to Impeach.
An interesting "blanket" theory I've not heard before. The problem is, the earth is not a warm blooded mammal that can SWEAT! Shit, I don't typically swear but that's a fucking stupid talking point.
-Pardon my french, I'm trying a new tact with CO2 lovers this weekend.
"Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs"
;-)
So Global Warming looks like a comet? Good thing McNaught isn't going to hit us, eh?
It's sad that there's a massive following of climate change deniers online, but such is the nature of the Internet - even the kooks have large communities that can email millions of people.