What kind of 'bad stuff' is he talking about? Child porn? Regular porn? Photos of mangled dead bodies? Opposing political views? Goatse?
I think he's calling for each of us to be specific about our own dislikes, and then arranging not to encounter that stuff. There's no one standard for indecency: one man's erotica is another woman's porn, etc.
think about it as if someone else controlled the book. They can tell you things over the phone, and they can cause answers to pop out of the book. If they waste the book on something you actually already knew, your total information goes down, so the information in the transaction is negative
So basically, this thing creates an open flame while pumping pure oxygen into the room surrounding it. That doesn't sound very safe.
Could be worse. Imagine an attachment that pipes some of the oxygen to a face mask. The proud owner could take big hits of pure O2 while gazing into the hypnotic depths of the fireplace. Add a fondue pot to this tableau, and you've got the makings of home-cooked decadence!
You have successfully nitpicked. Pretentious award achieved. Mission complete.
A front-page post deserves to be nitpicked, when written by a nitwit. Slashdot has editors for this purpose. Not very good editors, perhaps, but editors nonetheless. It's the business of editors to make sure that their flagship publication is free of nits. That's the very definition of good writing in a good publication: it doesn't itch with nits.
Individual posts withing a thread, I don't give a damn. But if a writer is going to make himself look stupid on Slashdot's home page, he deserves all the insult he gets.
This was a really hard review to write. It's been a long time since I've read a book that was so fascinating on the first reading and yet raised so many questions on the second and third. Books on the history of gaming are relatively few -- Joystick Nation, High Score, Game Over, Masters of Doom and The Ultimate History of Video Games, the major works on the topic, all focus on the West. Finding out more about the history of gaming in Japan is harder. Suffice to say that if you're interested in game trivia, Japanese console gaming industry history, or the Eastern cultural drivers behind game design and communication, you owe it to yourself to get Power Up.
Emphasis mine. If it were suffice to say that part -- which sums up the review nicely -- then why subject us to the tedium of the preceding sentences?
Really hard to write? Then be a better writer; or get an editor.
I think you could find 10,000,000 people who'd fork over $10 for a chance to orbit the moon.
I'm guessing that you're thinking of a lottery system. This is okay, I might plunk down ten clams for the long shot at the long shot.
However, I propose an alternate approach. I'll bet you could 10,000,000 people who'd fork over $10 for a chance to send one particular person to the moon, and not bring them back.
Actually, what they meant to say was "HP Invest." Just one letter. Simple mistake, really.
Actually actually, I think it meant to say "HP Invert", as in Rectal-Cranial Inversion, which is what HP has collectively accomplished with moves like this.
Fact: they meant to say "HP Invect" -- that is, to issue invective.
Examples:
"Fuck you, losers -- we're better off without you!"
I wonder what will happen to Open Croquet [opencroquet.org] and TeaTime [doebe.li] without his leadership... I just hope development on Croquet doesn't stall now, otherwise us cyberspace-lusting techno-hopefuls will just have to wait for the inevitable (but still hopefully far-off) day where you can open Word documents and Excel spreadsheets from inside World of Warcraft.
I wish I had mod points! This is both +Informative and way, way +Funny -- !
Bob Metcalfe invented the Ethernet network protocol, which has evolved to into the standard that most network run on. It got that way because he gave it the headroom for it to evolve. He also can see the limitations that today's OSes bring to the table. Bob also accurately forecasted the collapse of the Internet stock bubble before anyone else that I knew of. I took his advice and got out ahead of the collapse. I think I would cut Bob some slack and agree with him that a new look at hardware and OSes may be the best way to fuel a new wave of true innovations.
Interesting, informative, insightful. Wish I had mod points....
An examination the page source reveals that the trick relies on invalid HTML. It puts an unordered list inside a span, which is a no-no. Inline elements can't contain block elements.
my expectations of this "peer-to-peer government" you speak of is also pretty low, especially at present (since it doesn't exist yet). It's easy to have high expectations of organizations that haven't been formed. Frankly, I suspect that this peer-to-peer organization you have in mind will have all sorts of unexpected problems in practice. I mean, democracy looks good on paper too. But I'm willing to wait and see.
Quite right, my so-called peer-to-peer hasn't emerged... it may be emergent, I don't know. Nor am I very confidant of how things might turn out -- really, I'm like you -- I'm willing to wait and see.
In the mean time, I'm going to try to take advantage of the infrastructure that does exist. I may be a cynic, but I'm a practical one.
Agreed, I'm with you. I omitted this line of thought from my original post, to more sharply define my manifesto. But of course we must be practical: vision alone does not pay the bills.
Nice idea, but anarchy is an inherently unstable system.
I'm not calling for anarchy, it's a bad way to live.
Think of how the Greek city-states learned to develop constitutions, entered into by a relatively large proportion of citizens (exclusive of slaves and women, of course), and debated in the agora. Some constitutions suited their cities; some were less successful; but in any case, men learned to collectively develop laws by which they reasoned they could live. We're speaking here of the sixth, fifth, fourth centuries B.C.
Fast-forward to our time. We have the technological means to develop new institutions, in the manner of city-state constitutions but suitable for our modern global survival. This is what I mean by peer-to-peer government: open source code, collectively developed and debated, of benefit to all and malice to as few as possible.
Shrimp farming in America and even more in Australia and Indonesian is a multimillion dollar industry.
Thailand, too -- huge business. Serious pollution problems in many of these sites, dense-packed farms breed diseases and parasites, generate lots of nasty wastewater (and require lots of fresh water, which in some places is scarce and expensive). To which add the heavy use of antibiotics....
What about Tenser's Floating Disk? Huh? What about that?
Early prototypes of Tenser's Floating Disk used tethered hydrogen balloons for lift. These were soon replaced with vacuum-filled balloons, for great lift. Finally, vacuum-balloons were compressed to nano-scale, embedded in the disk itself, whereupon the embedded vacuum was replaced with negative space, creating the Tenser's Floating Disk we know today.
While Clark sentiments are noble, they're equivalent to saying that we shouldn't even be having these rivalries here on the ground. He is correct, but wishing does not make reality so.
Agreed.
"Thou Shall Not Kill" and "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" are noble and time-honored sentiments -- yet the world remains long on killing and short on love.
Ideals are probably a good thing, we'd be in even worse shape without them. But we sure as Hell don't live in Utopia.
The government sees someone who opposes the administration rising in prominance so they use his private information against him in some manner.
Example: J. Edgar Hoover collected dirt on John F. Kennedy as early as the Second World War:
"One of the first examples of Hoover's activities that would lead to blackmail on his part occurred during World War II, when Hoover had his agents follow a young Naval Officer named John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was the son of one of Hoover's closest associates, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Officer Kennedy was involved in a sexual relationship with a woman, Inga Arvad, who was a Danish national believed to be a Nazi spy. Thus, Hoover was conveniently able to launch an investigation of Kennedy's relationship with this woman 'for reasons of national security.' Hoover's agents spied on the couple and obtained tape recordings of the two in intimate activities."
Link
But when the first guy who can figure out how to do porn spam for this comes along, I do not want to be anywhere near the roads. On the other hand when this happens I probably won't be leaving my apartment anyway.
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What kind of 'bad stuff' is he talking about? Child porn? Regular porn? Photos of mangled dead bodies? Opposing political views? Goatse?
I think he's calling for each of us to be specific about our own dislikes, and then arranging not to encounter that stuff. There's no one standard for indecency: one man's erotica is another woman's porn, etc.
-kgj
think about it as if someone else controlled the book. They can tell you things over the phone, and they can cause answers to pop out of the book. If they waste the book on something you actually already knew, your total information goes down, so the information in the transaction is negative
Nicely explained. Thanks.
-kgj
So basically, this thing creates an open flame while pumping pure oxygen into the room surrounding it. That doesn't sound very safe.
Could be worse. Imagine an attachment that pipes some of the oxygen to a face mask. The proud owner could take big hits of pure O2 while gazing into the hypnotic depths of the fireplace. Add a fondue pot to this tableau, and you've got the makings of home-cooked decadence!
-kgj
You have successfully nitpicked. Pretentious award achieved. Mission complete.
A front-page post deserves to be nitpicked, when written by a nitwit. Slashdot has editors for this purpose. Not very good editors, perhaps, but editors nonetheless. It's the business of editors to make sure that their flagship publication is free of nits. That's the very definition of good writing in a good publication: it doesn't itch with nits.
Individual posts withing a thread, I don't give a damn. But if a writer is going to make himself look stupid on Slashdot's home page, he deserves all the insult he gets.
-kgj
Because the part that suffices does so in virtue of being a response to the problem presented before.
I disagree. The "suffice" sentence stands nicely on its own, the preceding sentences add pointless bloat.
-kgj
This was a really hard review to write. It's been a long time since I've read a book that was so fascinating on the first reading and yet raised so many questions on the second and third. Books on the history of gaming are relatively few -- Joystick Nation, High Score, Game Over, Masters of Doom and The Ultimate History of Video Games, the major works on the topic, all focus on the West. Finding out more about the history of gaming in Japan is harder. Suffice to say that if you're interested in game trivia, Japanese console gaming industry history, or the Eastern cultural drivers behind game design and communication, you owe it to yourself to get Power Up.
Emphasis mine. If it were suffice to say that part -- which sums up the review nicely -- then why subject us to the tedium of the preceding sentences?
Really hard to write? Then be a better writer; or get an editor.
-kgj
Your comments are right on the money.
-kgj
I think you could find 10,000,000 people who'd fork over $10 for a chance to orbit the moon.
I'm guessing that you're thinking of a lottery system. This is okay, I might plunk down ten clams for the long shot at the long shot.
However, I propose an alternate approach. I'll bet you could 10,000,000 people who'd fork over $10 for a chance to send one particular person to the moon, and not bring them back.
Only question is, who's the lucky* winner?
-kgj
* N.B., I didn't say good luck.
Actually, what they meant to say was "HP Invest." Just one letter. Simple mistake, really.
Actually actually, I think it meant to say "HP Invert", as in Rectal-Cranial Inversion, which is what HP has collectively accomplished with moves like this.
Fact: they meant to say "HP Invect" -- that is, to issue invective.
Examples:
"Fuck you, losers -- we're better off without you!"
And:
"HP Rules! U-S-A-!! U-S-A-!!," etc.
-kgj
I wonder what will happen to Open Croquet [opencroquet.org] and TeaTime [doebe.li] without his leadership ... I just hope development on Croquet doesn't stall now, otherwise us cyberspace-lusting techno-hopefuls will just have to wait for the inevitable (but still hopefully far-off) day where you can open Word documents and Excel spreadsheets from inside World of Warcraft.
I wish I had mod points! This is both +Informative and way, way +Funny -- !
-kgj
Dear Sweet Jesus, please make it stop -- I can't tell you how much I hate (hate, hate, Fucking Hate) Daylight Slavings Time ....
-kgj
Bob Metcalfe invented the Ethernet network protocol, which has evolved to into the standard that most network run on. It got that way because he gave it the headroom for it to evolve. He also can see the limitations that today's OSes bring to the table. Bob also accurately forecasted the collapse of the Internet stock bubble before anyone else that I knew of. I took his advice and got out ahead of the collapse. I think I would cut Bob some slack and agree with him that a new look at hardware and OSes may be the best way to fuel a new wave of true innovations.
....
Interesting, informative, insightful. Wish I had mod points
-kgj
An examination the page source reveals that the trick relies on invalid HTML. It puts an unordered list inside a span, which is a no-no. Inline elements can't contain block elements.
You hit that nail right on the head.
-kgj
... :)
my expectations of this "peer-to-peer government" you speak of is also pretty low, especially at present (since it doesn't exist yet). It's easy to have high expectations of organizations that haven't been formed. Frankly, I suspect that this peer-to-peer organization you have in mind will have all sorts of unexpected problems in practice. I mean, democracy looks good on paper too. But I'm willing to wait and see.
... it may be emergent, I don't know. Nor am I very confidant of how things might turn out -- really, I'm like you -- I'm willing to wait and see.
... see my post regarding Hellenic city-state constitutions and the development of modern open-souce government.
Quite right, my so-called peer-to-peer hasn't emerged
Interesting that you mention how democracy looks good on paper
In the mean time, I'm going to try to take advantage of the infrastructure that does exist. I may be a cynic, but I'm a practical one.
Agreed, I'm with you. I omitted this line of thought from my original post, to more sharply define my manifesto. But of course we must be practical: vision alone does not pay the bills.
-kgj
Nice idea, but anarchy is an inherently unstable system.
I'm not calling for anarchy, it's a bad way to live.
Think of how the Greek city-states learned to develop constitutions, entered into by a relatively large proportion of citizens (exclusive of slaves and women, of course), and debated in the agora. Some constitutions suited their cities; some were less successful; but in any case, men learned to collectively develop laws by which they reasoned they could live. We're speaking here of the sixth, fifth, fourth centuries B.C.
Fast-forward to our time. We have the technological means to develop new institutions, in the manner of city-state constitutions but suitable for our modern global survival. This is what I mean by peer-to-peer government: open source code, collectively developed and debated, of benefit to all and malice to as few as possible.
-kgj
This has got to be the best, most lucid, most interesting post on slashdot for at least 5 years.
Thanks, made my day.
In the interest of journalistic balance, it should be noted that I've posted plenty of asinine, ill-thought-out comments in the past five years.
But I recognized the Authority post as a keeper, the moment the idea came to me. So, thanks again for your affirmation.
-kgj
Shrimp farming in America and even more in Australia and Indonesian is a multimillion dollar industry.
....
Thailand, too -- huge business. Serious pollution problems in many of these sites, dense-packed farms breed diseases and parasites, generate lots of nasty wastewater (and require lots of fresh water, which in some places is scarce and expensive). To which add the heavy use of antibiotics
Shimp Farm Pollution
-kgj
The article goes into depth on how to monitor these attackes and to report them to the authorities.
... how very ... twentieth-century.
....
The authorities
Better we should self-organize our collective defense.
Peer-to-peer government -- making the nation-state obsolete, one node at a time
-kgj
Tim: I know that, Al, now help me here, I can't quite... reach... AAAAIIIII! My balls! My balls have frozen solid!
Made me laugh!
You know what else would be funny? A trick lapel-flower that squirts liquid nitrogen. Amuse your friends! Freeze the stupid look on their faces!
-kgj
What about Tenser's Floating Disk? Huh? What about that?
Early prototypes of Tenser's Floating Disk used tethered hydrogen balloons for lift. These were soon replaced with vacuum-filled balloons, for great lift. Finally, vacuum-balloons were compressed to nano-scale, embedded in the disk itself, whereupon the embedded vacuum was replaced with negative space, creating the Tenser's Floating Disk we know today.
-kgj
Now I hoped there was some magical forcefield to carry my laptop attached to my belt floating along.
... which will (a) float your laptop, and (b) power your car.
Of course there's no such thing as "magical forcefields".
What you want is a cluster of hydrogen-filled balloons
-kgj
While Clark sentiments are noble, they're equivalent to saying that we shouldn't even be having these rivalries here on the ground. He is correct, but wishing does not make reality so.
Agreed.
"Thou Shall Not Kill" and "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" are noble and time-honored sentiments -- yet the world remains long on killing and short on love.
Ideals are probably a good thing, we'd be in even worse shape without them. But we sure as Hell don't live in Utopia.
-kgj
The government sees someone who opposes the administration rising in prominance so they use his private information against him in some manner.
Example: J. Edgar Hoover collected dirt on John F. Kennedy as early as the Second World War:
"One of the first examples of Hoover's activities that would lead to blackmail on his part occurred during World War II, when Hoover had his agents follow a young Naval Officer named John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was the son of one of Hoover's closest associates, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Officer Kennedy was involved in a sexual relationship with a woman, Inga Arvad, who was a Danish national believed to be a Nazi spy. Thus, Hoover was conveniently able to launch an investigation of Kennedy's relationship with this woman 'for reasons of national security.' Hoover's agents spied on the couple and obtained tape recordings of the two in intimate activities."
Link
-kgj
But when the first guy who can figure out how to do porn spam for this comes along, I do not want to be anywhere near the roads. On the other hand when this happens I probably won't be leaving my apartment anyway.
Made me laugh!
-kgj