It's always happened - the only difference is that the modern well educated citizen with freedom of information knows a lot more about it than our ancestors.
Knows a lot about what? Ancestors? Huh? I can't hear anything. Hold on second. (Aside) Honey! Turn down that TV I can't understand! Kids, go to your room! Can't you see I'm trying to talk to this nice slash dot man. Yes, Slash dot. No I don't know I think it's some kind of slashed tire repair service for our busted pickup. (Back to the Phone) Yes, I'm sorry. I don't know any ancestors other than grandpa's cateracts.
"The police raided my house on Sept. 17, 2002," said "Jack," who came to the United States from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee, and has requested that his name not be published. "Nobody gave me a chance to explain. I was told by judge and prosecutor that I will get years in prison if I go to trial. After negotiations through my lawyer I got 180 days in an adult correctional facility. I was imprisoned for 20 days and then released under the Electronic Home Monitoring scheme. I now have a felony sex-criminal record, and the court ordered me to register as a predatory sex offender for 10 years."
No. Post 9-11 madness. Even if it was his own porn... why does that make him a sex offender?
Gmail is bad? The argument is clear to me, something like:
"They talk so cute. They sound so nice. They are so smart (like me!) and their success makes me look more righteous amongst my peers. They are not a cop-out
"So we love Google. We love them so much that everything they do is ok. We quickly dismiss any criticism. We believe that they will strike down evil!"
And the only thing I believe in is the inevitable corruption of centralized power. However, if they distribute their power like they do their clusterd search tecnology... then maybe I'll sing along as well:)
Yes, McCrapDeluze: what you describe is the blowback, the reaction against the controllers.
Technology tries to liberate. Technology was once thought of as the essence of freedom's revolution itself. Recall Apple/1984... recall www-idealism. Then technology turns against itself and tries to control. Porn regulation, satillite cameras, fingerprints, RIAA server-side 'intellectual property' monitoring. Liberation vs. control. Hacktivists and regulators engaging in battle royal.
Sure there are always loopholes and entropy... but I fear the capability of technology to regulate and control will become so strong and so automated that only the most astute hacktivists or fleeting script kiddies will find sanctuary, leaving the rest of the populace to graze like sheep on genetic grass.
Regarding all the talk of "get Bush out of the office, and make the world a better place." While Bush does need to go ASAP, projects such as this Earth simulator necessitate understanding of a finer point: Technological Inertia.
Just becuase we can do something, does not mean that we should. We ought to categorically oppose all technology used for the sake of automated control (red light cameras, airport profile scanning, etc). Unfortuantely, because we can do it, we do it anyway... obsessive-compuslively sticking our fingers in the electric socket despite conditioned responses warning us otherwise. As the Beatles said in Yellow Submarine "I can't help it I'm a born lever puller."
Slowly this automated control enters and enters and we adjust and become accustomed... and whether or not Bush is in office doesn't matter, for we have already become a prisoner in our own minds and houses.
worthwhile to the time spent of certain "musically inclined" cronies... if you know what I mean... various underlings of undlings mentioned a certain rumorette told by secretaries of secretaries... certain, RIAA officials would love to discourage usage of Kazaa no matter how they can do it... viri certainly frighten the little piratkateers away... say no more!
Knighthood is just like awarding the Hollywood Star. They should display icons of all the knights down the Thames.
We need to create a rewards system that rewards not celebrities but progressives. The Martyr Award or the like. Give it a sexy title... and *poof* suddenly being a progressive is hip.
>> The funny thing is though, the general vibe I got from the two weeks I spent there was that people really just didn't care.
That's what I would say describes the majority of Americans. Americans don't want to be bothered. The typical says I don't care about ozone, children in sweatshops making my disney t-shirts, special interest bombs going off in cities where I can't pronounce the names. Bush is cool. He wants to stop baseball players from using steroids. And I like MARS--let's go to MARS!
So, arguably, the average American, Cuban, whoever, may equally not care as their rights are taken away. I guess what marks Americans is that Americans feel they have to impose their values on others... and they have a long history of doing so. Manefist Destiny spirit.
I mean, if Fidel were to suddenly wage an all out war against a country who didn't attack Cuba because Fidel wanted better control of its resources and was afraid, wetting his pants with fear... would Cubans care then? Would they?
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Problem with tolls is that tolls were originally founded to pay off the bond that funded the bridge or highway. After the bond is matured, there is no reason for the toll. One may claim that maintenance costs still need funding via the toll, but that cost is a trifling compared to the bond costs, and was historically charged into the general maintenance funding of the local municipality anyway. What we see now are toll booths still staying open despite the fact that the bond has been paid off. This is schitzophrenic, and I'm surprised no one questions it.
Technology should be used *ONLY* where it enhances human expression. Books, paint, and the internet are examples of various expressive-friendly technologies, for example.
*AUTOMATED* technologies used for purposes of control and regulation are inherently wrong. Such automation grossly assumes a kind of ridged non-humaness in how society ought to function. Automated "anti-cheat" devices for schools, automated red light policing cameras, tickets, and racial profiling, as examples, must be stopped now.
There is an abstract class called Terrorism(Object o). 2600 points out that with propaganda all marginals are passed into the Abstract. It is the job of the Hope conference to instill Honor in all the OOP spin doctors in the world: Beware of Reckless OOP. There goal of a good hacker is to overload Terrorism(Object o) with something a bit more easy rider, while still properly passing deadly free radicals, with something a little more easy rider like Freedom(Object o). Are you with me on this????
"In a number of areas scientific data is being generated at enormous rates, creating the need for the automated analysis of the data," said Ross D. King, the system's co-inventor and a professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
But is is self-learning? Meaning, would it go against the scientific method if scientific method itself turns out to be wrong and thus we have to reinvent scientific method? I doubt it could mimic a Schroedinger or Heisenberg.
This is a lab rat. Big number cruncher with some sophistication. Still though, if it succeeds, and implemented by professors worldwide... all the grad students will have to spend their weekends doing something outside of the lab....
Why does technology for purposes of automated control always sound so cute when first released? Then you face the reality of a life filled with biometric monitoring chips and automated traffic light camera police.
For your safety, help take a bite out of true crime. Fight technocracy.
What are the more popular jibber-makers? Definately interested.
Break it up. This seems like it would be essential material for artists. Sort of like a William S Burroughs cut up technique--invoke the spammer whenever writer's block or a some hard transitions are needed. Shake it up.
This hit me. While MARS watches are a cool-nerdy thing, it is also indicitave of a secondary pattern--humans mentally divergent behavior to avoid Earthly situations, and instead focus their heads way up past the bombs and pollution into the clouds.
Slashdot Mirror
You don't need petrochemical fertilizer, pesticides, etc to grow vegaetables. Some people eat food that does not come from gas station shelves.
RING RING! TELEPHONE!
Hello?
It's always happened - the only difference is that the modern well educated citizen with freedom of information knows a lot more about it than our ancestors.
Knows a lot about what? Ancestors? Huh? I can't hear anything. Hold on second. (Aside) Honey! Turn down that TV I can't understand! Kids, go to your room! Can't you see I'm trying to talk to this nice slash dot man. Yes, Slash dot. No I don't know I think it's some kind of slashed tire repair service for our busted pickup. (Back to the Phone) Yes, I'm sorry. I don't know any ancestors other than grandpa's cateracts.
"The police raided my house on Sept. 17, 2002," said "Jack," who came to the United States from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee, and has requested that his name not be published. "Nobody gave me a chance to explain. I was told by judge and prosecutor that I will get years in prison if I go to trial. After negotiations through my lawyer I got 180 days in an adult correctional facility. I was imprisoned for 20 days and then released under the Electronic Home Monitoring scheme. I now have a felony sex-criminal record, and the court ordered me to register as a predatory sex offender for 10 years."
No. Post 9-11 madness. Even if it was his own porn... why does that make him a sex offender?
Gmail is bad? The argument is clear to me, something like:
:)
"They talk so cute. They sound so nice. They are so smart (like me!) and their success makes me look more righteous amongst my peers. They are not a cop-out
"So we love Google. We love them so much that everything they do is ok. We quickly dismiss any criticism. We believe that they will strike down evil!"
And the only thing I believe in is the inevitable corruption of centralized power. However, if they distribute their power like they do their clusterd search tecnology... then maybe I'll sing along as well
Yes, McCrapDeluze: what you describe is the blowback, the reaction against the controllers.
Technology tries to liberate. Technology was once thought of as the essence of freedom's revolution itself. Recall Apple/1984... recall www-idealism. Then technology turns against itself and tries to control. Porn regulation, satillite cameras, fingerprints, RIAA server-side 'intellectual property' monitoring. Liberation vs. control. Hacktivists and regulators engaging in battle royal.
Sure there are always loopholes and entropy... but I fear the capability of technology to regulate and control will become so strong and so automated that only the most astute hacktivists or fleeting script kiddies will find sanctuary, leaving the rest of the populace to graze like sheep on genetic grass.
And the l33+ will put back orifices into the homeland defense systesm...
And yes, finally, every young hacker heart's dream will come true: The movie WarGames finally becomes a reality tv show.
I don't care so much for Paris, but what's wrong or disgusting with sex? So she was privately videotaped--that's a hot thing to do in bed.
Puritans....
Regarding all the talk of "get Bush out of the office, and make the world a better place." While Bush does need to go ASAP, projects such as this Earth simulator necessitate understanding of a finer point: Technological Inertia.
Just becuase we can do something, does not mean that we should. We ought to categorically oppose all technology used for the sake of automated control (red light cameras, airport profile scanning, etc). Unfortuantely, because we can do it, we do it anyway... obsessive-compuslively sticking our fingers in the electric socket despite conditioned responses warning us otherwise. As the Beatles said in Yellow Submarine "I can't help it I'm a born lever puller."
Slowly this automated control enters and enters and we adjust and become accustomed... and whether or not Bush is in office doesn't matter, for we have already become a prisoner in our own minds and houses.
Bomb them all from the moon! We must not allow a mine shaft gap!
...I'll give you .50%!
Whoever it is I can top the last offer and give you give you 50.50%!
worthwhile to the time spent of certain "musically inclined" cronies... if you know what I mean... various underlings of undlings mentioned a certain rumorette told by secretaries of secretaries... certain, RIAA officials would love to discourage usage of Kazaa no matter how they can do it... viri certainly frighten the little piratkateers away... say no more!
Knighthood is just like awarding the Hollywood Star. They should display icons of all the knights down the Thames.
We need to create a rewards system that rewards not celebrities but progressives. The Martyr Award or the like. Give it a sexy title... and *poof* suddenly being a progressive is hip.
>> The funny thing is though, the general vibe I got from the two weeks I spent there was that people really just didn't care.
That's what I would say describes the majority of Americans. Americans don't want to be bothered. The typical says I don't care about ozone, children in sweatshops making my disney t-shirts, special interest bombs going off in cities where I can't pronounce the names. Bush is cool. He wants to stop baseball players from using steroids. And I like MARS--let's go to MARS!
So, arguably, the average American, Cuban, whoever, may equally not care as their rights are taken away. I guess what marks Americans is that Americans feel they have to impose their values on others... and they have a long history of doing so. Manefist Destiny spirit.
I mean, if Fidel were to suddenly wage an all out war against a country who didn't attack Cuba because Fidel wanted better control of its resources and was afraid, wetting his pants with fear... would Cubans care then? Would they?
It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on Amerika's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?
Problem with tolls is that tolls were originally founded to pay off the bond that funded the bridge or highway. After the bond is matured, there is no reason for the toll. One may claim that maintenance costs still need funding via the toll, but that cost is a trifling compared to the bond costs, and was historically charged into the general maintenance funding of the local municipality anyway. What we see now are toll booths still staying open despite the fact that the bond has been paid off. This is schitzophrenic, and I'm surprised no one questions it.
Technology should be used *ONLY* where it enhances human expression. Books, paint, and the internet are examples of various expressive-friendly technologies, for example.
*AUTOMATED* technologies used for purposes of control and regulation are inherently wrong. Such automation grossly assumes a kind of ridged non-humaness in how society ought to function. Automated "anti-cheat" devices for schools, automated red light policing cameras, tickets, and racial profiling, as examples, must be stopped now.
Who wants to shop for music anyway?
There is an abstract class called Terrorism(Object o). 2600 points out that with propaganda all marginals are passed into the Abstract. It is the job of the Hope conference to instill Honor in all the OOP spin doctors in the world: Beware of Reckless OOP. There goal of a good hacker is to overload Terrorism(Object o) with something a bit more easy rider, while still properly passing deadly free radicals, with something a little more easy rider like Freedom(Object o). Are you with me on this????
"In a number of areas scientific data is being generated at enormous rates, creating the need for the automated analysis of the data," said Ross D. King, the system's co-inventor and a professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
But is is self-learning? Meaning, would it go against the scientific method if scientific method itself turns out to be wrong and thus we have to reinvent scientific method? I doubt it could mimic a Schroedinger or Heisenberg.
This is a lab rat. Big number cruncher with some sophistication. Still though, if it succeeds, and implemented by professors worldwide... all the grad students will have to spend their weekends doing something outside of the lab....
If you can DO it, DREAM it.
--Roy Disney
stay away from me, hee.
Why does technology for purposes of automated control always sound so cute when first released? Then you face the reality of a life filled with biometric monitoring chips and automated traffic light camera police.
For your safety, help take a bite out of true crime. Fight technocracy.
What are the more popular jibber-makers? Definately interested.
Break it up. This seems like it would be essential material for artists. Sort of like a William S Burroughs cut up technique--invoke the spammer whenever writer's block or a some hard transitions are needed. Shake it up.
This hit me. While MARS watches are a cool-nerdy thing, it is also indicitave of a secondary pattern--humans mentally divergent behavior to avoid Earthly situations, and instead focus their heads way up past the bombs and pollution into the clouds.
Now when MARS attacks we'll know what time it is.
I wonder if they sell to non-catholics? Or do they first circumsize and baptize everyone who buys a modem from them? :D
They are making preparations to buffer their new role as being total service providers, providing OS helpdesk and contracting support to corporaions.
OS was supposed to be use at your own risk... but it seems they are now going to make promises above and beyond a general GNU contract.