This already happens now, it’s just not “legal”—we need to stand up and demand that our access to information not be limited, and create alternative connective tissue to prevent others from blocking access to our own information, while they simultaneously share and record our most private data! In some ways, we are already more totalitarian than their government is. We need to fix this situation because we created it collectively with the assistance of some very shady characters. In the days of dialup, it was actually easier for them to control because there were so few primary servers and backbones. So I’m not so sure that the task is actually easier these days, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of hacktivists who have the ability to help change things for the better through knowledge, effort and education.
As an "environmentalist" I actually agree with you wholeheartedly. This nuclear reactor plan is the same old junky, dangerous, highly pollutive nuclear meltdown waiting to happen, just slightly newer and shinier with a snazzy new brand name. I can't imagine that the residents of the areas where these will be built are very aware of what's going on. Not to mention that despite all of the "safety precautions" they've come up with so far, they still fail to take into account the gobs of radioactive material produced and the intentions of evil people who would target such facilities in an attack.
...as should we all, since we knowingly purchased--and still purchase--most of our products from China without checking the labeling on all of the products that we buy. We should not complain about things we support.
I fail to see how this article is "insightful". The point is not to address growing energy needs by possibly causing another environmental disaster. Experience has obviously proven useless in this case. I'm sure that the Congresspeople who were paid by their corporate owners at GE are overjoyed that they'll get their bonus, no matter what the residents who actually have to live next door to a freaking nuclear reactor will think.
Sounds like this wasn't such a conspiracy theory after all, eh? What better way to keep people from having any privacy than to kill the creator of the one website which would have worked to help provide it cheaply and easily to the public. It's time to make a diaspora, and leave Facebook forever, as far as I am concerned.
Mahalo for the correction/clarifications (esp. i.e. the *illusion* of being represented fairly, or at all, by our phony "representatives" in Washington, D.C., in the State Capitol, and the local governments); it's very telling that these people whom we have trusted for years, no matter what their claimed political bent, is ultimately serving as public relations agents for the top one hundredth of one percent of the wealthiest, internationally.
Scams like our current taxation system, phony environmental "regulations" which actually *deregulate* and allow much worse pollution to occur, and anti-discrimination legislation which actually winds up *creating* hatred and resentment...
In the past, we were simply told that we were not "holy" or "pure" enough; these days, we're not "law-abiding" or "in a high enough tax bracket". In the absence of scientific knowledge--when you could prevent people from knowing something by simply burning down the library [i.e. the Library at Alexandria] and hoping that no-one had managed to make copies of the books inside first--now these same facetious people are attempting to burn down vast swaths of the Internet simple because they do not like what people are saying.
As the censorship of our free speech becomes more obvious, the illegal detainment of people like the brave (gay) soldier Bradley Manning and the mud-smeared heroism of Julian Assange and the overt actions of beautiful/talented programmers of Anonymous, including an new, inspiring wave of incredibly akamai (female) computer programmers becomes more relevant and more highlighted in the public eye.
The more that the news cronies refuse to cover the thousands of daily protests involving thousands of Occupy demonstrators in thousands of locations around the world, the more important this type of thinking becomes in my mind.
I just don't understand how these people keep going; I mean, when it comes down to it, the foundation of all those peoples' lives is only money. As a member of a sociopolitical party which by definition can only ever include:
307,000,000 people in the U.S. (times).01% = 30,700 top wealthiest people in the U.S.
7,000,000,000 people in the world (times).01% = 700,000 top wealthier people in the world;...that's a huge minority. Especially once they start looking around at all the people they've screwed and continue to screw, pretty soon all their bankers, lawyers, buddies, gardeners and pals who make slightly to much less than them will start realizing who it is that's been messing with their finances, their medical health, their families, and their freedom in order to keep their bosses in charge all over the world. Deliberately.
Deliberately.
How long after this realization hits the supporters of the top.0001 (i.e. me and you and 99.99% of the rest of us on this Earth) will we tolerate these phony revolutions, these assassinations, these character assassinations, this mutual atta-boy backslapping and disgusting Real Housewives international jet-setting while the rest of us try to afford a single bag of poi (which now costs $9 in our local grocery store and is no longer affordable)?
It won't take long for people to realize that this economic prison is just as illusory as the other ones those people have created for us to believe in and so peacefully slot ourselves into at their demand. I, personally, will be much more aware of political pandering to my liberalism, my homosexuality, my economic status, and I will not be supporting those who say one thing and do another.
If Hawaii is going to start keeping track of every website that we visit from now on, I demand a list of every website that our public legislators visit, and those of the lobbyists who pay them. I want this "public record" to include those unexpurgated records of our highest politicians and religious leaders, alongside our own. Only then will people see how disgustingly filthy this system is, from bottom to top.
ACTA represents the end of political power as we knew it, growing up. ACTA, the NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, and the inconcievably invasive H.B. 2288 (which I am ashamed to say originated here in Hawaii) represent some of the best efforts by the 1% to control what we say and do, especially online. What hubris!
Reality is a messy business, especially when you get humans involved!
You really have to love the Internet for all its flaws, and to take its accuracy with a grain of salt.
3D Porn! Need I say more?
Anyway now that I got your attention I remember sketching a camera like this 15 years ago and learning *then* that it was nothing new... I heard that Disney's panoramic movie at Disneyland LA used something like this, just in analog and without the processing. True 3d processing is like what you see at http://2d3.com/...
...er. Well, I hope that there will be an exhibit explaining how they didn't need ride designers, engineers and economists to put this all together, but how all they did was get together in a circle and pray, and a golden shaft of warm salty light from heaven spilled down upon their upturned faces, and turned into roller coaster rides. Then, they can go on TV and rant against Darwinism, and explain how all animals on Earth evolved from Ocelots and Orangutans present on the ark in B.C. 500 or so.
I think this is hilarious, my boyfriend and I will probably go, dressed normally, then rip off our hetero clothes and kiss in full-on drag in the central courtyard, while a videocamera records our big gay kiss in front of the park's opening sign. I love this stuff. So easy to do... hee hee!
Shows how much bad thinking is left in Wall Street... when one of history’s most successful computer retailers thinks it’s better to artificially “pump up” its stock prices, rather than increasing its true overall value through better products and better customer service. And as Pikoro noted above, the settlement funds should go towards programs which provide or promote technology for the public good (i.e. pumping up Kno/iPad tablet availability for schools to replace textbooks, or funding a practical, decent, open school admin database), and not going directly into mysterious government coffers where people like defense contractors can get at it, which is doing nothing but *harming* the public good.
The procedure is actually to write random bits (01101111010110000 etc) at least seven to 13 times! This doesnâ(TM)t 100% guarantee nonrecovery, but it comes very close. Also, most hard drives are *not* regularly zeroed out (in free space), unless thereâ(TM)s a security policy in place at that particular facility/organization/office that implements a daemon thatâ(TM)s going to handle it for you.
I mean, gosh, I love NatGeo, have for many years, but I immediately think, “for kids”—which is funny, because these days I think of games as being for young adults/adults. They will do well in a niche market.
but I love opening up Vista on my Mac Pro and seeing Microsoft give my machine such an incredible performance index—especially when compared against their biggest and baddest PC OEM’s.
I mean, what if the sole purpose of the processor is to tell Hubble to "activate servomoter #3 for 2.5 seconds spinning left"?
You only need a decent processor if you're going to be doing image compression and other demanding stuff.
Otherwise, you're switching to a newer piece of hardware that may not be 20% as reliable, so you can gain a lot more power that you don't need - doh!
Just ignore anything else! Don't waste time learning new APIs, etc. Expensive and annoying proprietary platforms, and I'm an iPhone developer (i.e. if you're not already developing for it, and you're not doing something like 3D graphics, forget it, it's time-expensive).
I might be biased, as we've developed over seven web-based apps for iPhone + mobile and it seems to be the best solution. If you have the budget for several platforms, I'd next go with iPhone. Widespread Android adoption will be a slow process, and a little too exclusive (did I just say that, even though I'm an iPhone user?!? ha). Other platforms, unless your ecology currently has a wide adoption of some particular platform, aren't widespread enough, and there's plenty of iPhone adoption that's already happened/happening.
But again, the Web is your best bet. It is the only one that will work on all your phones. Otherwise, it's the iPhone because all your base will belong to us. Mwahahahaha!
...in our current government, it's a politics thing. Before, it was "America Must Be First in Space to Beat Out Those Reds!" (not my words, believe me) - and we weren't first. Now, it's, "golly, let's cut funding because this thing is too expensive." This is the government trying to get out of doing anything related to space research - we're too busy blowing people up and trying to decrypt 128-bit (1024? 2048? 10240-bit?) keys to get at personal data - both of which require enormous amounts of money in and of themselves.
The U.S. really needs to wake up and get a clue - there was so much benefit, scientifically, financially and morally from NASA, that we really need to continue this. *sigh*
Accidentally left out:encodings should probably be limited to UTF-8. No matter what people say, having to deal with a bazillion different encodings over the last twenty years has made me itch to throw the rest out the freakin' window. I don't want to have to guess every five seconds which encoding we're using now as opposed to then - did the user's agent really just try to paste in BIG-5 encoding into our Latin1 charset? Was the UTF-8 incorrectly served as a MacRoman document? Etc etc etc...
We need more, simplified thinking like this. The feature and tag bloat that is HTML now needs to be slimmed down, and bad. It seems a lof people who read the (yes, short, thank god) proposal neglected to read the part about custom tags and attributes: this is how we solve the problem of semantics. We can use microformats with real, custom tags. Regarding security, the iFrame/Frameset model can be maintained for backwards compatibility when serving version=4 documents, and the "module" tag (needs a better name IMHO) can use the message queue methodology he proposes. Most of the structural complexity can now simply be expressed with simple heirarchy. The only major change I'd add to his proposed spec is removal of all the crazy bloat-tags made redundant by CSS (HTML 5 proposes only removing about 8 tags!)
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This already happens now, it’s just not “legal”—we need to stand up and demand that our access to information not be limited, and create alternative connective tissue to prevent others from blocking access to our own information, while they simultaneously share and record our most private data! In some ways, we are already more totalitarian than their government is. We need to fix this situation because we created it collectively with the assistance of some very shady characters. In the days of dialup, it was actually easier for them to control because there were so few primary servers and backbones. So I’m not so sure that the task is actually easier these days, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of hacktivists who have the ability to help change things for the better through knowledge, effort and education.
As an "environmentalist" I actually agree with you wholeheartedly. This nuclear reactor plan is the same old junky, dangerous, highly pollutive nuclear meltdown waiting to happen, just slightly newer and shinier with a snazzy new brand name. I can't imagine that the residents of the areas where these will be built are very aware of what's going on. Not to mention that despite all of the "safety precautions" they've come up with so far, they still fail to take into account the gobs of radioactive material produced and the intentions of evil people who would target such facilities in an attack.
...as should we all, since we knowingly purchased--and still purchase--most of our products from China without checking the labeling on all of the products that we buy. We should not complain about things we support.
I fail to see how this article is "insightful". The point is not to address growing energy needs by possibly causing another environmental disaster. Experience has obviously proven useless in this case. I'm sure that the Congresspeople who were paid by their corporate owners at GE are overjoyed that they'll get their bonus, no matter what the residents who actually have to live next door to a freaking nuclear reactor will think.
Sounds like this wasn't such a conspiracy theory after all, eh? What better way to keep people from having any privacy than to kill the creator of the one website which would have worked to help provide it cheaply and easily to the public. It's time to make a diaspora, and leave Facebook forever, as far as I am concerned.
Mahalo for the correction/clarifications (esp. i.e. the *illusion* of being represented fairly, or at all, by our phony "representatives" in Washington, D.C., in the State Capitol, and the local governments); it's very telling that these people whom we have trusted for years, no matter what their claimed political bent, is ultimately serving as public relations agents for the top one hundredth of one percent of the wealthiest, internationally. Scams like our current taxation system, phony environmental "regulations" which actually *deregulate* and allow much worse pollution to occur, and anti-discrimination legislation which actually winds up *creating* hatred and resentment... In the past, we were simply told that we were not "holy" or "pure" enough; these days, we're not "law-abiding" or "in a high enough tax bracket". In the absence of scientific knowledge--when you could prevent people from knowing something by simply burning down the library [i.e. the Library at Alexandria] and hoping that no-one had managed to make copies of the books inside first--now these same facetious people are attempting to burn down vast swaths of the Internet simple because they do not like what people are saying. As the censorship of our free speech becomes more obvious, the illegal detainment of people like the brave (gay) soldier Bradley Manning and the mud-smeared heroism of Julian Assange and the overt actions of beautiful/talented programmers of Anonymous, including an new, inspiring wave of incredibly akamai (female) computer programmers becomes more relevant and more highlighted in the public eye. The more that the news cronies refuse to cover the thousands of daily protests involving thousands of Occupy demonstrators in thousands of locations around the world, the more important this type of thinking becomes in my mind. I just don't understand how these people keep going; I mean, when it comes down to it, the foundation of all those peoples' lives is only money. As a member of a sociopolitical party which by definition can only ever include: 307,000,000 people in the U.S. (times) .01% = 30,700 top wealthiest people in the U.S.
7,000,000,000 people in the world (times) .01% = 700,000 top wealthier people in the world; ...that's a huge minority. Especially once they start looking around at all the people they've screwed and continue to screw, pretty soon all their bankers, lawyers, buddies, gardeners and pals who make slightly to much less than them will start realizing who it is that's been messing with their finances, their medical health, their families, and their freedom in order to keep their bosses in charge all over the world. Deliberately.
Deliberately.
How long after this realization hits the supporters of the top .0001 (i.e. me and you and 99.99% of the rest of us on this Earth) will we tolerate these phony revolutions, these assassinations, these character assassinations, this mutual atta-boy backslapping and disgusting Real Housewives international jet-setting while the rest of us try to afford a single bag of poi (which now costs $9 in our local grocery store and is no longer affordable)?
It won't take long for people to realize that this economic prison is just as illusory as the other ones those people have created for us to believe in and so peacefully slot ourselves into at their demand. I, personally, will be much more aware of political pandering to my liberalism, my homosexuality, my economic status, and I will not be supporting those who say one thing and do another.
If Hawaii is going to start keeping track of every website that we visit from now on, I demand a list of every website that our public legislators visit, and those of the lobbyists who pay them. I want this "public record" to include those unexpurgated records of our highest politicians and religious leaders, alongside our own. Only then will people see how disgustingly filthy this system is, from bottom to top.
ACTA represents the end of political power as we knew it, growing up. ACTA, the NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, and the inconcievably invasive H.B. 2288 (which I am ashamed to say originated here in Hawaii) represent some of the best efforts by the 1% to control what we say and do, especially online. What hubris!
Reality is a messy business, especially when you get humans involved! You really have to love the Internet for all its flaws, and to take its accuracy with a grain of salt.
3D Porn! Need I say more? Anyway now that I got your attention I remember sketching a camera like this 15 years ago and learning *then* that it was nothing new... I heard that Disney's panoramic movie at Disneyland LA used something like this, just in analog and without the processing. True 3d processing is like what you see at http://2d3.com/ ...
Shows how much bad thinking is left in Wall Street... when one of history’s most successful computer retailers thinks it’s better to artificially “pump up” its stock prices, rather than increasing its true overall value through better products and better customer service. And as Pikoro noted above, the settlement funds should go towards programs which provide or promote technology for the public good (i.e. pumping up Kno/iPad tablet availability for schools to replace textbooks, or funding a practical, decent, open school admin database), and not going directly into mysterious government coffers where people like defense contractors can get at it, which is doing nothing but *harming* the public good.
OK, obviously /. has a problem with UTF8, which my browser's inserting by default. sorry
The procedure is actually to write random bits (01101111010110000 etc) at least seven to 13 times! This doesnâ(TM)t 100% guarantee nonrecovery, but it comes very close. Also, most hard drives are *not* regularly zeroed out (in free space), unless thereâ(TM)s a security policy in place at that particular facility/organization/office that implements a daemon thatâ(TM)s going to handle it for you.
I mean, gosh, I love NatGeo, have for many years, but I immediately think, “for kids”—which is funny, because these days I think of games as being for young adults/adults. They will do well in a niche market.
but I love opening up Vista on my Mac Pro and seeing Microsoft give my machine such an incredible performance index—especially when compared against their biggest and baddest PC OEM’s.
If you’re good, I’ll publish you! But it has to be good.
Maybe he needs a better Vista from his new office.
I have an old TI-99 4/A I can donate if you need it.
I mean, what if the sole purpose of the processor is to tell Hubble to "activate servomoter #3 for 2.5 seconds spinning left"? You only need a decent processor if you're going to be doing image compression and other demanding stuff. Otherwise, you're switching to a newer piece of hardware that may not be 20% as reliable, so you can gain a lot more power that you don't need - doh!
Just ignore anything else! Don't waste time learning new APIs, etc. Expensive and annoying proprietary platforms, and I'm an iPhone developer (i.e. if you're not already developing for it, and you're not doing something like 3D graphics, forget it, it's time-expensive).
I might be biased, as we've developed over seven web-based apps for iPhone + mobile and it seems to be the best solution. If you have the budget for several platforms, I'd next go with iPhone. Widespread Android adoption will be a slow process, and a little too exclusive (did I just say that, even though I'm an iPhone user?!? ha). Other platforms, unless your ecology currently has a wide adoption of some particular platform, aren't widespread enough, and there's plenty of iPhone adoption that's already happened/happening.
But again, the Web is your best bet. It is the only one that will work on all your phones. Otherwise, it's the iPhone because all your base will belong to us. Mwahahahaha!
Here's an interesting article on the advantages of mobile AJAX, that I enjoyed reading: http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/getting-started-with-mobile-ajax
...in our current government, it's a politics thing. Before, it was "America Must Be First in Space to Beat Out Those Reds!" (not my words, believe me) - and we weren't first. Now, it's, "golly, let's cut funding because this thing is too expensive." This is the government trying to get out of doing anything related to space research - we're too busy blowing people up and trying to decrypt 128-bit (1024? 2048? 10240-bit?) keys to get at personal data - both of which require enormous amounts of money in and of themselves.
The U.S. really needs to wake up and get a clue - there was so much benefit, scientifically, financially and morally from NASA, that we really need to continue this. *sigh*
I agree - it should just be an attribute of the HTML tag, then, like <html version=5 language=php />
Accidentally left out:encodings should probably be limited to UTF-8. No matter what people say, having to deal with a bazillion different encodings over the last twenty years has made me itch to throw the rest out the freakin' window. I don't want to have to guess every five seconds which encoding we're using now as opposed to then - did the user's agent really just try to paste in BIG-5 encoding into our Latin1 charset? Was the UTF-8 incorrectly served as a MacRoman document? Etc etc etc...
We need more, simplified thinking like this. The feature and tag bloat that is HTML now needs to be slimmed down, and bad. It seems a lof people who read the (yes, short, thank god) proposal neglected to read the part about custom tags and attributes: this is how we solve the problem of semantics. We can use microformats with real, custom tags. Regarding security, the iFrame/Frameset model can be maintained for backwards compatibility when serving version=4 documents, and the "module" tag (needs a better name IMHO) can use the message queue methodology he proposes. Most of the structural complexity can now simply be expressed with simple heirarchy. The only major change I'd add to his proposed spec is removal of all the crazy bloat-tags made redundant by CSS (HTML 5 proposes only removing about 8 tags!)