"How about we make a site which lets people rate their boss, and if the boss gets enough bad ratings hopefully the higher ups will see the data and fire him."
Not to nitpick and punch holes in a nice conceptual idea.....but this wouldn't work because people could get their friends to vote etc, and could unfairly get someone some bad attention by the higherups. And that's assuming if this was annonymous. If it wasn't......well.....this is Slashdot, so the privacy implications would be so severe that we can't even speak of them.
Anybody else get the warm fuzzy picture of Darl & Associates soon to be roasting over an open fire on a spit turned by a big blue man? Maybe shove an apple in their mouths (or much worse if they're in federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison!).
"Retailers will set off alarms every time you leave a store if you block their signals and readers will be made to defeat them in time."
I don't know about you, but if I paid for everything, and this anti-RFID watch thingy sets an alarm off and they want to check me, you can be DAMNED SURE i'm going to make a scene about it if I KNOW its the watch setting it off.
On a side note, I was wondering, when I worked at Kohl's and Blockbuster, we had product that had security tags on them. You'd swipe them to turn them off after they were purchased, but often times the machine didn't turn them off, and the customer would beep on the way out. Is the store allowed to make the person come back and check? If you don't go back and they chase after you, is that the same as accusing you of stealing? What are the legal restrictions on that (yeah.....i know, great place to ask for legal advice).
I wonder what would happen if they shut this down.....and it had been determined that people lost a substantial amount of money because of their characters being deleted.
It has been discussed numerous times about whether or not people's investment of time/money into an MMORPG should be protected by the law........but what if the company yanks the plug on the game in question? Would they be liable for your lost investment? This is why I think MMORPGs will never be a source of legally protected income. It literally makes it impossible for the hosting company to shut down the game once people have made a serious investment into it. Otherwise they face a barrage of lawsuits.
THIS is what Disneyland needs to combat the hordes of kids who assault the people dressed in Mickey costumes. Let's see them try to kick a metal dinosaur in the nuts! Better yet, they should make a Godzilla one, and give it a flamethrower breathweapon. The possibilities are ENDLESS. In fact, I think a game should be made where you are a crazy robot running amok in a themepark and your goal is to kill visitors in creative and gory ways!
" What happens when the user is a sick, twisted and sadistic person. Will the computer adapt to that kind of user?"
Well, if you've ever played Black & White the answer should be clear. Your computer will throw its feces at everybody it sees.....it will do handstands in the middle of town to attract attention, and then when everybody is mesmerized, zap them with lightning..............it will not listen to a damn thing you tell it to do because it enjoys causing you pain, until of course you slap the bejesus out of it.
" The next killer app, in my opinion, is the application that allows you to not only save content, but also the context (or contexts, even - human beings don't keep things in their head under one strict association - there are multiple pointers to the same information) behind that word doc, picture, etc."
Exactly, and this context could be applied to many things. For example, when I download torrents of anime now, I always save them to the same folder which is my holding area for anime I download, which I later move to its correct folder upon viewing. If my computer could sense that I was downloading anime (yet again) and direct it to the proper folder, that would be great. If it could generate a list of what I've viewed completely, what I've partially watched, and what I haven't watched yet, that would be amazing.
Even better, sometimes a series gets moved around in my folder because it has a different file name than others of its kind because it was subbed by a different group. I do not rename the filenames because I like to keep them the same for when I send to others, yet if my computer could figure out that a file was part of a certain group of files even though it had a different filename, that would be a great boon to my productivity.
I believe their reasoning for the insane amount per infringement is that I don't believe they have a way to find out how many others downloaded the track from that sharer. So while one instance of infringement may only be 'worth' $20 or so, or even less if you take out all the other material as you did, if you don't know how many people they transferred that file to, you would go for the maximum allowed by law.
That would be bad. We don't want this settled out of court in some form of bullying where many students lose their entire life savings over a couple britney spears songs. We want this to go to court so some sort of verdict may be had. We want the RIAA stopped dead in its tracks.
" The coolest way we could stop spam from being distributed......"
I have a much cooler way to stop spam. It involves many blunt objects, and many sharp objects, as well as some objects that go BANG and cause things to fly out of them at very high velocity. I think these would be very effective but have not had a chance to test them yet.
If it said Videogames Attract More Women Than Slashdotters it'd be true.
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"Perhaps...just maybe...it's because they actually make some fairly decent, reasonably functional, well designed software? "
Or perhaps it has to do with the fact that MS is giving the school a boatload of money and free software to do it? This is MS we're talking about, do you honestly think they DON'T have an agenda with this? Don't be so naive. There's a reason many people on Slashdot bash MS and its not because they're closed source. Its because they make poor software, and use monopolistic practices to make sure it remains dominant in the marketplace, as opposed to other software developers who try to do something called "compete". Maybe you should take Business 101 instead of trolling.
I was actually thinking something similar, although I wasn't joking about it. If diamonds are going to be cheap to make, why not put a diamond coating on CDs? Protects the data, incredible optical qualities...i fail to see why this WOULDN'T work.
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"Once they find a way to make money on filesharing, I bet two things happen. a) they stop harrassing folks and b) CD prices drop b/c they're no longer a one trick pony.
Sooooo... in an effort to stop the lawsuits and help get CD prices down, we, the buying public, need to find a way for the RIAA/labels to make billions off of online file sharing... hopefully without some terrible DRM integrated into the solution."
And why exactly would they stop? In the long run, if they could eliminate P2P, it would make them money. If they have another viable business model, this would just be more money on top of that. And I'd like you to explain why I should help come up with a business model to support a dying industry who refuses to change their business model to adapt, and instead decides to ruin the lives of students through litigation because they were unable to catch the P2P wave before it crested.
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"Wait... you mean that you'd marry a girl like that?"
Yes, I would, if I loved her for other reasons. Not everybody has to share the exact same social/economic/political agenda as you to be compatible with you. Nor is it your place to pass judgement on those people. It is not really a persons fault if they grow up in a society....nay....a WORLD where diamonds are considered rare and wonderous things. Granted, the rare bit is now known to be false, but there is still a social value given to diamonds. It is not so much the rarity of the diamonds....it is that the man who buys his woman a bigger rock has more money, and is thus better able to provide for her.
When women brag about their ring to their friends, its not about the rock itself, as I'm sure you are aware. They are merely bragging about their husband. While their basis for such bragging may be misguided, you should not fault them for being so happy with the person they are marrying that they want to show them off. Now, to be fair, there are certainly those women out there who only care about the size of the rock, and about where they rest in the social pecking order. And I would never come near a girl like that. But you should not fault the rest.
You stated that asylum seekers in general are "are violent, compulsive liars, often involved with drugs and other 'dangers to society'." I'm curious what you are basing this on. I'm also curious why you have to swear so much to carry on a discussion. Or were you not intending to have a discussion, and merely rant. And you did paint all foreigners with the same brush when you state:
"Call me xenophobic, but I would rather we deal with our problems before we welcome foreigners who may or may not be in immediate danger."
Not only does your statement prove this, but perhaps you were not aware that the term xenophobic, as defined by Merriam-Webster is:
"one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin"
So please, explain to me how you did not paint all foreigners with the same brush.
I believe they have this on the autobahn as well. I remember reading about how at the exit of it, you'd have a TON of expensive sports cars sitting there, with people eating sandwiches and such killing time, because they'd calculate what their speed would look like based on when they exited and didn't want to get busted.
How this got modded insightful is beyond me. Talk about a troll if I ever saw one.
Listen up. Just because YOU are xenophobic does not mean others should not be allowed into the country. Just because some of his tenants are Albanians and Kosovans does not mean they are all like that. There are other forces at play if you want to properly stereotype someone. Such as their income level. I think that would be a more likely reason for their use of drugs and other 'dangers to society' as you put it.
Frankly, if I had to deal with people like you, i'd probably be violent and a compulsive liar as well. Xenophobic does not do you justice. I would also add racist to your list of titles.
And I, for one, welcome our MIT overlords. As a trusted Slashdot personality, I can be useful in rounding up other Slashbots to toil in their underground...........oh wait....the story's about robotic waterstriders?
AOL needs to stop blocking other domains and start blocking their own. Seriously, my mother uses AOL and 90% of the spam she gets is from hijacked AOL accounts.
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Not to nitpick and punch holes in a nice conceptual idea.....but this wouldn't work because people could get their friends to vote etc, and could unfairly get someone some bad attention by the higherups. And that's assuming if this was annonymous. If it wasn't......well.....this is Slashdot, so the privacy implications would be so severe that we can't even speak of them.
For a grand total of 99% of all households? Don't you mean 50%?
I don't know about you, but if I paid for everything, and this anti-RFID watch thingy sets an alarm off and they want to check me, you can be DAMNED SURE i'm going to make a scene about it if I KNOW its the watch setting it off.
On a side note, I was wondering, when I worked at Kohl's and Blockbuster, we had product that had security tags on them. You'd swipe them to turn them off after they were purchased, but often times the machine didn't turn them off, and the customer would beep on the way out. Is the store allowed to make the person come back and check? If you don't go back and they chase after you, is that the same as accusing you of stealing? What are the legal restrictions on that (yeah.....i know, great place to ask for legal advice).
It has been discussed numerous times about whether or not people's investment of time/money into an MMORPG should be protected by the law........but what if the company yanks the plug on the game in question? Would they be liable for your lost investment? This is why I think MMORPGs will never be a source of legally protected income. It literally makes it impossible for the hosting company to shut down the game once people have made a serious investment into it. Otherwise they face a barrage of lawsuits.
Cuz we here in the US of A will bomb.......errr...liberate that content if you don't. Heh, just kidding.
But seriously....cough up the Monty Python and Douglas Adams OR ELSE!
Some poor sop's FTP
Heh, I was smart, waited to post this AFTER I downloaded it.
Well, if you've ever played Black & White the answer should be clear. Your computer will throw its feces at everybody it sees.....it will do handstands in the middle of town to attract attention, and then when everybody is mesmerized, zap them with lightning..............it will not listen to a damn thing you tell it to do because it enjoys causing you pain, until of course you slap the bejesus out of it.
Exactly, and this context could be applied to many things. For example, when I download torrents of anime now, I always save them to the same folder which is my holding area for anime I download, which I later move to its correct folder upon viewing. If my computer could sense that I was downloading anime (yet again) and direct it to the proper folder, that would be great. If it could generate a list of what I've viewed completely, what I've partially watched, and what I haven't watched yet, that would be amazing.
Even better, sometimes a series gets moved around in my folder because it has a different file name than others of its kind because it was subbed by a different group. I do not rename the filenames because I like to keep them the same for when I send to others, yet if my computer could figure out that a file was part of a certain group of files even though it had a different filename, that would be a great boon to my productivity.
I have a much cooler way to stop spam. It involves many blunt objects, and many sharp objects, as well as some objects that go BANG and cause things to fly out of them at very high velocity. I think these would be very effective but have not had a chance to test them yet.
If it said Videogames Attract More Women Than Slashdotters it'd be true.
Or perhaps it has to do with the fact that MS is giving the school a boatload of money and free software to do it? This is MS we're talking about, do you honestly think they DON'T have an agenda with this? Don't be so naive. There's a reason many people on Slashdot bash MS and its not because they're closed source. Its because they make poor software, and use monopolistic practices to make sure it remains dominant in the marketplace, as opposed to other software developers who try to do something called "compete". Maybe you should take Business 101 instead of trolling.
And why exactly would they stop? In the long run, if they could eliminate P2P, it would make them money. If they have another viable business model, this would just be more money on top of that. And I'd like you to explain why I should help come up with a business model to support a dying industry who refuses to change their business model to adapt, and instead decides to ruin the lives of students through litigation because they were unable to catch the P2P wave before it crested.
Yes, I would, if I loved her for other reasons. Not everybody has to share the exact same social/economic/political agenda as you to be compatible with you. Nor is it your place to pass judgement on those people. It is not really a persons fault if they grow up in a society....nay....a WORLD where diamonds are considered rare and wonderous things. Granted, the rare bit is now known to be false, but there is still a social value given to diamonds. It is not so much the rarity of the diamonds....it is that the man who buys his woman a bigger rock has more money, and is thus better able to provide for her.
When women brag about their ring to their friends, its not about the rock itself, as I'm sure you are aware. They are merely bragging about their husband. While their basis for such bragging may be misguided, you should not fault them for being so happy with the person they are marrying that they want to show them off. Now, to be fair, there are certainly those women out there who only care about the size of the rock, and about where they rest in the social pecking order. And I would never come near a girl like that. But you should not fault the rest.
"Call me xenophobic, but I would rather we deal with our problems before we welcome foreigners who may or may not be in immediate danger."
Not only does your statement prove this, but perhaps you were not aware that the term xenophobic, as defined by Merriam-Webster is:
"one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin"
So please, explain to me how you did not paint all foreigners with the same brush.
Listen up. Just because YOU are xenophobic does not mean others should not be allowed into the country. Just because some of his tenants are Albanians and Kosovans does not mean they are all like that. There are other forces at play if you want to properly stereotype someone. Such as their income level. I think that would be a more likely reason for their use of drugs and other 'dangers to society' as you put it.
Frankly, if I had to deal with people like you, i'd probably be violent and a compulsive liar as well. Xenophobic does not do you justice. I would also add racist to your list of titles.