we can always commit burglary and hope for a court-enforced electronic tagging. heck, just get a cellphone and be happy in the knowledge that the hsa can find you wherever you are.
from the article: Controlled Entropy Ventures is seeking investors to expand the lounge into different markets. The company says it expects to expand overseas in London.
i dunno about the wi-fi stuff tho. if this is the same company it may be jumping the gun a bit. afterall, the press love buzzwords like that.
but i don't see how simply putting up a enabling connection to their server via wifi / bluetooth devices will mean free internet access, as the poster seems to be implying ("Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."). If anything, as a (probably) large well invested business interest they will most likely have have pretty tight security on it, with little or no net access.
besides does anyone really want to risk lookin up from your pint to see teh goatse.cx ? yes i'm talking to *you*, 2600 london;)
at last I will know to where in Nigeria I should go!
seriously tho. even if it is all legal-ified and I'D correctly, there will still be such things as ticking the little box to say you dont want any spam from service X,Y, and Z. In fact, the way online revenues are going i can see recieving/solicited/ spam as being the only way you will be able to read salon. if it's still going by then.
it would be nice(?) to have a better system but I never forget the age old adage of no system being tamperproof. Lots of enterprising folks enjoy anonymity for non-spam purposes, so naturally some form of workaround should emerge fairly quickly. oh lord i'm sounding like Toffler.
i wonder how hard it would be to reprogram a phone's behaviour by inconspicously swarming the user with a gang of your friends and their improperly programmed phones.. [insert Goatse-style scenario here]
i can see how it can work in a communications context, but how does this work in the case of an addressbook/contact list?
such a device would require knowledge of a key/passcode on the owner's behalf simply to access the device/transmission/address. chances are you will find the key-bearer w/ the device. and when they do i suppose it wouldnt be difficult to 'extract' this key from the holder.
2 way comms i can understand, but as long as you can get the password/fingerprint/retina required for access out of the user, then such safeguards seem pointless.
all of the security safeguards we usually employ are with respect to people doing it behind your back without your 'assistance'....much better would be to obfuscate the access method or even disguse the device as something seemingly innocuous - say a minidisk recorder with 'easter egg' access.
it seems a little odd that a book about comic books gains greater mainstream acceptance than a comic book itself. and that is doubly odd considering the standard of writing in comics today. but then accusing literary critics of prejudice is akin to accusing a bum of homelessness.
indeed there is, albeit with dhtml - in this case i refer to the International Herald Tribune's pagination scheme which implements a very cute way of getting past the unavailability of the any <MULTICOL> tag in today's browsers.
it also offers the option to reformat the page in a varity of ways, but the default layout (for applicable browsers) is that of a columned, page by page setup.
newspapers work in columns because they are easier to scan and digest. most people dislike scrolling, as it means the reading material moves - as opposed to one's eyes moving. QED.:)
and i wonder, is referring to Mike Myers films the way/. intends to attract now readers to science articles?
solar system? is Jupiter to shortly become our second solar body, a'la 2010? c'mon, they're just satellites of a planet. I'd have thought a science poster to know the definition of a solar system. with that cleared up, could you inform us of meaning of the new astrological term "mini-me"?
(spoiler: i probably don't know what im talking about)
in my mind the best solution would be to hand control to an org with a board of appointed members each representing their own nation (say, the Ministar de Intarweb for Erewhon); such as the UN. Proposals and issues could then be dealt with on a consensual basis, and organisations concerned with TLDs based in those countries could then communicate their issues to their Minister/Spokesman/whatever funding for tech expertise etc etc can also come through those channels
the UN makes consensual decisions pretty well (at least as well as it can), why not model after it?
yeah. I wonder how much of the plastic and metal in these kindly donated components are from african soils in the first place. <BR><BR>and they say ken saro-wiwa died in vain.
training for what, exactly? how are IT skills and improved communications going to help free impoverished countries from the grip of corrupt administrations and natural resource leeches such as Shell or deBeers?
what do these businesses sell, in any case? last i heard, putting your small business on teh internet was only useful if you are producing something someone in [affluent country here] wants - and sadly, outside of big business concerns such as oil or diamonds, that doesn't amount to much.
You're not far off the mark - Take a look at egypt's attempts to form a technocratic (as opposed to fundamentalist) society.
It's all very well and good to want to provide communications access to those that don't have it, but do they *need* it? I would have thought that tackling the causes of Africa's poverty, rather than attempt to "boost it into the 21st century" (whatever that means) would be a more effective and longer-lasting solution.
but no. we'd rather show we care enough to give them the benefits of Fark, AYBABTU, and hotmail accounts (and who wants to bet some enterprizing fellow won't work out a way to capitalise on our own greed and idiocy - Nigerian 411, anyone?)
not belittling the hard work people put into this, but it seems to be yet another case of malformed priorities/treating symptoms not cause. but then, treating symptoms doesn't carry so much responsibility/difficulty, does it?
.."raided to [..] seek the identity of particular subscribers in relation to their activity and files"..
.."'declined to name' ISPs"...
like me, did anyone else think this was regarding child pornography, and not (as is the case) a trickle of users in the sea that is filesharing, arrested at the behest of record companies?
Alvin + Heidi Toffler note, in War and Anti-War how subsonics can be used as a defense mechanism, where the sound is on the same frequency as the resonance of materials found in human internal organs - in other words, the dreaded brown noise. <BR><BR>fun idea, I just hope the sound engineers are doing their job properly at the next gig I go to. <BR><BR><BR>On a personal note, I am acutely affected by ultrasonics - some of which include televisions, which means I can hear a high pitch whenever i am in proximity to a TV (even if it is behind a closed door). I have also experienced this in physics class, where a high voltage was being passed through a sphere painted with metallic paint. <BR>can anyone enlighten me as to how this ultrasonic side-effect occurs in the first place?
When the window was removed back on Earth, the embedded mote was found to contain traces of aluminum and titanium.
It was a fleck of paint, most likely from a derelict rocket casing.
If it had been slightly heavier, the window could have imploded, killing the crew, experts concluded.
the only surprising thing about the article is the apparent disregard for collision hazards that various space agencies have had. this is not a new problem, in fact it's been known about for decades. how, then, is it possible for a manned capsule to be threatened with implosion in this manner?
surely, safety mechanisms (say, an internal airlock hooked up to a barometer), as on a submarine, are worth implementing. or would it be too much of a payload to send up there?
or even (fantastically), a "giant nano-sponge, scouring the orbits". there's got to be a solution, somewhere.
this - plus the recent loss of the Challenger - once more reminds me that for all the huff, puff and political aggrandizement, it is still (effectively) the age of guys floating around in tin cans.
i'd like to see an integrated pointing device as standard (trackpoint) on all keyboards. reduces RSI and the amount of time it takes to switch between keyboard and pointing device. all round, it's a winner for efficiency, space-saving and convenience. sadly, (outside of laptop manufacturers) hardly anybody produces decent, tactile keyboards with a incorporated pointing device.
why is this?
secondly, i'd like to see 'power', 'sleep' and 'wake up' taken off of the keyboard - they cause more problems they are worth, if pressed accidentally.
i can imagine that many artists will be contractually prevented at venues where this service is on sale.
As for the consumers, some folk don't care about the quality - witness the many poor quality live bootlegs floating around since year one.. but for a paid service, i would imagine that with all the studio wizardry in force at large gigs there's very little chance of it not being a top-notch recording. I've heard live bootlegs that were recorded straight from the mixing desk, and the quality is superb.
Besides, what kind of business venture provides shoddy product and expects to stay in business? word gets around quickly.
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Someone better tell them the Internet isn't restricted to the United States. see you in china
'hey, kid, your dad has a 50 in his back pocket.. now, to the candy store! '
we can always commit burglary and hope for a court-enforced electronic tagging.
heck, just get a cellphone and be happy in the knowledge that the hsa can find you wherever you are.
it'll appear about the same time as the nanites that break down foreign matter entering my skin.
even the "knowledge" part of "knowledge based economy" seems to be leaving the west..
a similar (same?) concept is already up n running in NY @ the Remote Lounge
from the article: Controlled Entropy Ventures is seeking investors to expand the lounge into different markets. The company says it expects to expand overseas in London.
i dunno about the wi-fi stuff tho. if this is the same company it may be jumping the gun a bit. afterall, the press love buzzwords like that.
but i don't see how simply putting up a enabling connection to their server via wifi / bluetooth devices will mean free internet access, as the poster seems to be implying ("Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."). If anything, as a (probably) large well invested business interest they will most likely have have pretty tight security on it, with little or no net access.
;)
besides does anyone really want to risk lookin up from your pint to see teh goatse.cx ? yes i'm talking to *you*, 2600 london
at last I will know to where in Nigeria I should go!
/solicited/ spam as being the only way you will be able to read salon. if it's still going by then.
seriously tho. even if it is all legal-ified and I'D correctly, there will still be such things as ticking the little box to say you dont want any spam from service X,Y, and Z.
In fact, the way online revenues are going i can see recieving
it would be nice(?) to have a better system but I never forget the age old adage of no system being tamperproof. Lots of enterprising folks enjoy anonymity for non-spam purposes, so naturally some form of workaround should emerge fairly quickly.
oh lord i'm sounding like Toffler.
i wonder how hard it would be to reprogram a phone's behaviour by inconspicously swarming the user with a gang of your friends and their improperly programmed phones.. [insert Goatse-style scenario here]
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i'm thinking of menstrual cycles here
i can see how it can work in a communications context, but how does this work in the case of an addressbook/contact list?
..much better would be to obfuscate the access method or even disguse the device as something seemingly innocuous - say a minidisk recorder with 'easter egg' access.
;)
such a device would require knowledge of a key/passcode on the owner's behalf simply to access the device/transmission/address. chances are you will find the key-bearer w/ the device. and when they do i suppose it wouldnt be difficult to 'extract' this key from the holder.
2 way comms i can understand, but as long as you can get the password/fingerprint/retina required for access out of the user, then such safeguards seem pointless.
all of the security safeguards we usually employ are with respect to people doing it behind your back without your 'assistance'..
L, R, L, R, U, D, U, D, Select + Start
organ thieves wouldn't even bother
it seems a little odd that a book about comic books gains greater mainstream acceptance than a comic book itself. and that is doubly odd considering the standard of writing in comics today.
but then accusing literary critics of prejudice is akin to accusing a bum of homelessness.
indeed there is, albeit with dhtml - in this case i refer to the International Herald Tribune's pagination scheme which implements a very cute way of getting past the unavailability of the any <MULTICOL> tag in today's browsers.
:)
it also offers the option to reformat the page in a varity of ways, but the default layout (for applicable browsers) is that of a columned, page by page setup.
newspapers work in columns because they are easier to scan and digest. most people dislike scrolling, as it means the reading material moves - as opposed to one's eyes moving. QED.
of orbiting Verne Troyers
/. intends to attract now readers to science articles?
and i wonder, is referring to Mike Myers films the way
solar system? is Jupiter to shortly become our second solar body, a'la 2010? c'mon, they're just satellites of a planet. I'd have thought a science poster to know the definition of a solar system.
with that cleared up, could you inform us of meaning of the new astrological term "mini-me"?
(spoiler: i probably don't know what im talking about)
in my mind the best solution would be to hand control to an org with a board of appointed members each representing their own nation (say, the Ministar de Intarweb for Erewhon);
such as the UN. Proposals and issues could then be dealt with on a consensual basis, and organisations concerned with TLDs based in those countries could then communicate their issues to their Minister/Spokesman/whatever
funding for tech expertise etc etc can also come through those channels
the UN makes consensual decisions pretty well (at least as well as it can), why not model after it?
yeah. I wonder how much of the plastic and metal in these kindly donated components are from african soils in the first place.
<BR><BR>and they say ken saro-wiwa died in vain.
training for what, exactly? how are IT skills and improved communications going to help free impoverished countries from the grip of corrupt administrations and natural resource leeches such as Shell or deBeers?
what do these businesses sell, in any case? last i heard, putting your small business on teh internet was only useful if you are producing something someone in [affluent country here] wants - and sadly, outside of big business concerns such as oil or diamonds, that doesn't amount to much.
You're not far off the mark - Take a look at egypt's attempts to form a technocratic (as opposed to fundamentalist) society.
It's all very well and good to want to provide communications access to those that don't have it, but do they *need* it?
I would have thought that tackling the causes of Africa's poverty, rather than attempt to "boost it into the 21st century" (whatever that means) would be a more effective and longer-lasting solution.
but no. we'd rather show we care enough to give them the benefits of Fark, AYBABTU, and hotmail accounts (and who wants to bet some enterprizing fellow won't work out a way to capitalise on our own greed and idiocy - Nigerian 411, anyone?)
not belittling the hard work people put into this, but it seems to be yet another case of malformed priorities/treating symptoms not cause. but then, treating symptoms doesn't carry so much responsibility/difficulty, does it?
sadly, a pointless excercise.
i'll "work" that "backdoor", baybeh
like me, did anyone else think this was regarding child pornography, and not (as is the case) a trickle of users in the sea that is filesharing, arrested at the behest of record companies?
..priorities, priorities...
Alvin + Heidi Toffler note, in War and Anti-War how subsonics can be used as a defense mechanism, where the sound is on the same frequency as the resonance of materials found in human internal organs - in other words, the dreaded brown noise.
<BR><BR>fun idea, I just hope the sound engineers are doing their job properly at the next gig I go to.
<BR><BR><BR>On a personal note, I am acutely affected by ultrasonics - some of which include televisions, which means I can hear a high pitch whenever i am in proximity to a TV (even if it is behind a closed door). I have also experienced this in physics class, where a high voltage was being passed through a sphere painted with metallic paint.
<BR>can anyone enlighten me as to how this ultrasonic side-effect occurs in the first place?
the only surprising thing about the article is the apparent disregard for collision hazards that various space agencies have had. this is not a new problem, in fact it's been known about for decades. how, then, is it possible for a manned capsule to be threatened with implosion in this manner?
surely, safety mechanisms (say, an internal airlock hooked up to a barometer), as on a submarine, are worth implementing. or would it be too much of a payload to send up there?
or even (fantastically), a "giant nano-sponge, scouring the orbits". there's got to be a solution, somewhere.
this - plus the recent loss of the Challenger - once more reminds me that for all the huff, puff and political aggrandizement, it is still (effectively) the age of guys floating around in tin cans.
i'd like to see an integrated pointing device as standard (trackpoint) on all keyboards.
reduces RSI and the amount of time it takes to switch between keyboard and pointing device. all round, it's a winner for efficiency, space-saving and convenience.
sadly, (outside of laptop manufacturers) hardly anybody produces decent, tactile keyboards with a incorporated pointing device.
why is this?
secondly, i'd like to see 'power', 'sleep' and 'wake up' taken off of the keyboard - they cause more problems they are worth, if pressed accidentally.
$0.02
i can imagine that many artists will be contractually prevented at venues where this service is on sale.
/. borken: pls fix kthx :)
As for the consumers, some folk don't care about the quality - witness the many poor quality live bootlegs floating around since year one..
but for a paid service, i would imagine that with all the studio wizardry in force at large gigs there's very little chance of it not being a top-notch recording.
I've heard live bootlegs that were recorded straight from the mixing desk, and the quality is superb.
Besides, what kind of business venture provides shoddy product and expects to stay in business? word gets around quickly.
(ps.
but is it a decepticon or an autobot?