I also think:
Boobs = Good, and it also fits with your reasoning. With boobs you can flesh out the details, innacuracies (different size of left vs right) and if your lucky you may collaborate with them as well.
iCould see Apple having some sort of store interface for interactive entertainment. Steam is a pretty good example of that (grumbling about required internet connection aside).
I don't think that the legitamate uses of BitTorrent come close to equaling the bandwidth wasted on downloading pr0n, music and the latest blockbuster movies. So why would Apple build this into thier OS? Will it help legitimize BitTorrent? I doubt it.
It would be interesting to see them distribute updates via bittorrent though.
I agree, indexing articles based on the tags might not be usefull, I kind of look at them as a microcosm of the type of posts I'm going to find inside. It is amazing how four words sum up hundreds of posts, all at once. If not in content, at least tone.
No! Well let me restatae that. The answer *should be* no if we are talking about conjecture. I could see merit in a suit if the original book was a work of fiction.. but the author (..hoax perpatrator?) claims that it is truth.
I read a sci-fi book about these neural networks many years ago. It featured a computer, with a rat brain, that simulated weather changes, or something like that. It wasn't powerful enough, and the plot involved a scientist turning to a human brain and all the ramifications etc...
Does anyone rememeber that book (or something like it, my memory of it is pretty fuzzy).
Your plea to be absolved from "parenting" is pointless, especially as a retailer. While I agree that more, if not all of our moral standards should be kept and taught in the home, it does not mean that retailers can't card. We card for alcohol and tobacco don't we? Games would be no different. It is not difficult nor time consuming to do Identification checks and there is no real reason to not do them to enforce an age rating, so where does your argument *really* come from? You are worried about your bottom dollar (hey we are capitalists, it's ok). If you are a retailer, you are surely familiar with the fact that the age group with the most disposable income are underage teens. That money is spent on entertainment more than anything else. By carding, you may be cutting down on your revenue.
Bottom line, society enforces de facto moral standards all the time through regulation. Big deal... I don't think you'll be losing much money in the end if you have to start carding.
Indeed, but what systems are they downloading these torrents on. I bet the number of "pirates" who have built thier own systems and have not payeds the windows tax EVER are is small compared to the hordes of users who torrent (shiney new verb) on machines they bought that kicked back licensing fees to M$.
To shift to a more general sense.. Microsoft, Intel, (insert your broadband provider here) are all making money *in part* by illegal downloading. It is akin to the porn industry motivating video technology or the drug war. We here a lot of clamour about "illegal and immoral" but these markets bolster the economy. What happens when this money dries up becasue of enforcement of the moral and legal standards? Answer: It will never happen.
... 35 percent of software worldwide is pirated. In North America alone, the piracy rate for software is 22 percent. "We consider that to be a staggering number," said MacNaughton.
What I find staggering is the ammount of money Micro$oft clears in a year. They seem to make so much money, I can't help wonder if the piracy is only helping business.
1. they really aren't as stupid as we accuse them of being 2. most of us techies probably would have to admit to an infection or two ourselves, that with our extensive knowledge and background 3. the world of malware is incredibly aggressive at staying ahead of the defensive curve.
You make a very good point that I don't think a lot of [technical users/geeks/l33ts/etc] get very often. There really isn't that much difference between these and an "average user" no matter what troll may claim here. These technical users are not heros (unsung or not) standing up and protecting everyone. Malware/Spyware authors are finding ways to eclipse the imagined skill of geeks more effectively everyday. You can throw a rock here and hit umpteen posts a day about how security is just another fence to cross, how drm does not matter, we can crack it in 2ms etc. Well guess what, geeks/technical users present a form of security/DRM/encryption to nefarious users. Some may throw up a pretty good defense, but in the end all end up getting screwed.
I have a 1999 Volvo S80. The car basically runs on a server/client basis with all the systems. The steering is even drive by wire. I have had two incedents where scheduled maintenance included software updates to the car's systems.
Your comment is very funny and yet also very interesting. You mention the Truman Show, which deals with a simulated environment created to fool Truman. In many ways an underlying message of the Truman Show might also share in common themes from The Matrix, 13th floor, or a bevy of other movies that parody/observe/comment on our link to reality. As far as tourism goes, what you see when you reach Cancun, or Bali, and check into a resort, are environments (social) that are constructed for the experience of the user/tourist. An idea like this is a natural extension and in many ways a parody of the real thing all at the same time. Very interesting, but not new perhaps. Theme parks like Disnleyland have simulated other created experiences for a long time now, this is just in a different context. A lot of theory around this is rooted in psycoanalysis, which is the motivating thought for movies like the Matrix/Truman Show, and the capital forces behind destinations like Cancun or Disnleyland, whether they care to give credit to it or not.
This is hard to argue with; but it is also hard to support, because it involves predicting the future, and the future, when it comes to public opinion, is extremely unpredictable.
Well, hindsight is 20/20 so that's a simple fix, just arrive in the future and then look back and change the past!
I am assuming that ou are using linux as the shockwave and flash are readily available for M$ products. Interestingly enough macromedia also releases these plugins for netscape/mozilla/mozilla firefox for linux as well. I find these plugins to work just as well as there windows counterparts. I need the plugin to look at the motorcycle manufacturer sites and when I get writers block I go and play flash games at ebaums world. my point is that the plugin is available and it is easy to install. It may not be open source but the software is distributed freely and is activley developed for linux. WHen my nieces want to use my computer they can't tell the difference between thier dad's XP machine and My Slack Box for web purposes... just my experience!
Nintendo had a bunch of their chicks walking around with GBAs strapped to their hips, and both me and my friend had happened to run into them at the same time.
Yeah and the french caterers, rolling the gourmet food around, had bags of rotten trash strapped to thier hips... thanks to the trash I wasn't hungry for long!
What seems funny to me is that I have know about 15 people who download gigs of crap a week, and each one of them thinks that BitTorrent is untraceable. They give me excuses like "The packets don't have the file name information", among others. I tell them all the time that thier only real protection is thier isp's willingness (or lack thereof) of getting involved.
Well your a piece of work. Thank you for assuming that I know NOTHING about these things, because your wrong. I am quite familiar with history and the cases listed but your passionate post proves my point! I am sure that there are many ideological issues, and historical evidence to back them up, reguarding privacy and freedom. At the end of the day I'll still use email, and so will millions of others, in an environment less private than any of us really think. Radical political and social change, or secret movments like COINTELPRO will always happen as you suggest, but pleae use your head when lecturing me. The phrase "I have nothing to hide" is probably the most truthfull statement anybody can make these days. No matter how hard you try none of your life can remain secret and the search abilities of google have not made it easier.. The access has always been there.
Who can show me a "secret" link to sign up for the beta?
But seriously, I'm not to concerned about my mail privacy. I'm pretty open about my life because I have nothing to hide. Information like when I take a crap, or my credit card number (and etc) shouldn't be in an email that I write or recieve so no worries. It's hard to have your privacy violated electronically when you don't leave much hidden. Another point of view is that while there may be ideological issues at stake surrounding these privacy concerns in reality there is nothing to worry about for the majority of potential users [of Gmail].
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Oh, you mean the Rule of Thumb?
http://xkcd.com/384/
Nah he just has not upgraded to Reality 2.0, you know the, uh... more *real* version.
I also think: Boobs = Good, and it also fits with your reasoning. With boobs you can flesh out the details, innacuracies (different size of left vs right) and if your lucky you may collaborate with them as well.
A similar story was posted a while back about U.S. Scientists doing this to dogs.
iCould see Apple having some sort of store interface for interactive entertainment. Steam is a pretty good example of that (grumbling about required internet connection aside).
I don't think that the legitamate uses of BitTorrent come close to equaling the bandwidth wasted on downloading pr0n, music and the latest blockbuster movies. So why would Apple build this into thier OS? Will it help legitimize BitTorrent? I doubt it. It would be interesting to see them distribute updates via bittorrent though.
I agree, indexing articles based on the tags might not be usefull, I kind of look at them as a microcosm of the type of posts I'm going to find inside. It is amazing how four words sum up hundreds of posts, all at once. If not in content, at least tone.
No! Well let me restatae that. The answer *should be* no if we are talking about conjecture. I could see merit in a suit if the original book was a work of fiction.. but the author (..hoax perpatrator?) claims that it is truth.
I read a sci-fi book about these neural networks many years ago. It featured a computer, with a rat brain, that simulated weather changes, or something like that. It wasn't powerful enough, and the plot involved a scientist turning to a human brain and all the ramifications etc... Does anyone rememeber that book (or something like it, my memory of it is pretty fuzzy).
Your plea to be absolved from "parenting" is pointless, especially as a retailer. While I agree that more, if not all of our moral standards should be kept and taught in the home, it does not mean that retailers can't card. We card for alcohol and tobacco don't we? Games would be no different. It is not difficult nor time consuming to do Identification checks and there is no real reason to not do them to enforce an age rating, so where does your argument *really* come from? You are worried about your bottom dollar (hey we are capitalists, it's ok). If you are a retailer, you are surely familiar with the fact that the age group with the most disposable income are underage teens. That money is spent on entertainment more than anything else. By carding, you may be cutting down on your revenue. Bottom line, society enforces de facto moral standards all the time through regulation. Big deal... I don't think you'll be losing much money in the end if you have to start carding.
Indeed, but what systems are they downloading these torrents on. I bet the number of "pirates" who have built thier own systems and have not payeds the windows tax EVER are is small compared to the hordes of users who torrent (shiney new verb) on machines they bought that kicked back licensing fees to M$. To shift to a more general sense.. Microsoft, Intel, (insert your broadband provider here) are all making money *in part* by illegal downloading. It is akin to the porn industry motivating video technology or the drug war. We here a lot of clamour about "illegal and immoral" but these markets bolster the economy. What happens when this money dries up becasue of enforcement of the moral and legal standards? Answer: It will never happen.
1. they really aren't as stupid as we accuse them of being
2. most of us techies probably would have to admit to an infection or two ourselves, that with our extensive knowledge and background
3. the world of malware is incredibly aggressive at staying ahead of the defensive curve.
You make a very good point that I don't think a lot of [technical users/geeks/l33ts/etc] get very often. There really isn't that much difference between these and an "average user" no matter what troll may claim here. These technical users are not heros (unsung or not) standing up and protecting everyone. Malware/Spyware authors are finding ways to eclipse the imagined skill of geeks more effectively everyday. You can throw a rock here and hit umpteen posts a day about how security is just another fence to cross, how drm does not matter, we can crack it in 2ms etc. Well guess what, geeks/technical users present a form of security/DRM/encryption to nefarious users. Some may throw up a pretty good defense, but in the end all end up getting screwed.
..I had hoped that it would be a Hildebrant illustrated guide to Postfix.
I have a 1999 Volvo S80. The car basically runs on a server/client basis with all the systems. The steering is even drive by wire. I have had two incedents where scheduled maintenance included software updates to the car's systems.
Your comment is very funny and yet also very interesting. You mention the Truman Show, which deals with a simulated environment created to fool Truman. In many ways an underlying message of the Truman Show might also share in common themes from The Matrix, 13th floor, or a bevy of other movies that parody/observe/comment on our link to reality. As far as tourism goes, what you see when you reach Cancun, or Bali, and check into a resort, are environments (social) that are constructed for the experience of the user/tourist. An idea like this is a natural extension and in many ways a parody of the real thing all at the same time. Very interesting, but not new perhaps. Theme parks like Disnleyland have simulated other created experiences for a long time now, this is just in a different context. A lot of theory around this is rooted in psycoanalysis, which is the motivating thought for movies like the Matrix/Truman Show, and the capital forces behind destinations like Cancun or Disnleyland, whether they care to give credit to it or not.
This is hard to argue with; but it is also hard to support, because it involves predicting the future, and the future, when it comes to public opinion, is extremely unpredictable.
Well, hindsight is 20/20 so that's a simple fix, just arrive in the future and then look back and change the past!
10000 ways to create a cd cataloging system..
I am assuming that ou are using linux as the shockwave and flash are readily available for M$ products. Interestingly enough macromedia also releases these plugins for netscape/mozilla/mozilla firefox for linux as well. I find these plugins to work just as well as there windows counterparts. I need the plugin to look at the motorcycle manufacturer sites and when I get writers block I go and play flash games at ebaums world. my point is that the plugin is available and it is easy to install. It may not be open source but the software is distributed freely and is activley developed for linux. WHen my nieces want to use my computer they can't tell the difference between thier dad's XP machine and My Slack Box for web purposes... just my experience!
Nintendo had a bunch of their chicks walking around with GBAs strapped to their hips, and both me and my friend had happened to run into them at the same time.
Yeah and the french caterers, rolling the gourmet food around, had bags of rotten trash strapped to thier hips... thanks to the trash I wasn't hungry for long!
Only on Slashdot...
What seems funny to me is that I have know about 15 people who download gigs of crap a week, and each one of them thinks that BitTorrent is untraceable. They give me excuses like "The packets don't have the file name information", among others. I tell them all the time that thier only real protection is thier isp's willingness (or lack thereof) of getting involved.
Well your a piece of work. Thank you for assuming that I know NOTHING about these things, because your wrong. I am quite familiar with history and the cases listed but your passionate post proves my point! I am sure that there are many ideological issues, and historical evidence to back them up, reguarding privacy and freedom. At the end of the day I'll still use email, and so will millions of others, in an environment less private than any of us really think. Radical political and social change, or secret movments like COINTELPRO will always happen as you suggest, but pleae use your head when lecturing me. The phrase "I have nothing to hide" is probably the most truthfull statement anybody can make these days. No matter how hard you try none of your life can remain secret and the search abilities of google have not made it easier.. The access has always been there.
Who can show me a "secret" link to sign up for the beta?
But seriously, I'm not to concerned about my mail privacy. I'm pretty open about my life because I have nothing to hide. Information like when I take a crap, or my credit card number (and etc) shouldn't be in an email that I write or recieve so no worries. It's hard to have your privacy violated electronically when you don't leave much hidden. Another point of view is that while there may be ideological issues at stake surrounding these privacy concerns in reality there is nothing to worry about for the majority of potential users [of Gmail].
I just type my sig in the reply form...
I've heard you can use steganography to hide your data in .JPGs ;)
.JPGs in data :-)
I've heard that Pr0n viewers in Russia hide their