The person reporting the ads seems to be the only person seeing them. Therefore, "Person" is reporting ads, not "People." And it could very well be spyware.
The people running LiveJournal seem to be quite aware of an average user's worries about the project; hell, Brad Fitzpatrick himself seems to be one of the crowd who has chosen specifically not to sell his soul to the devil. RTFA to hear what he's actually saying. As he says, "Really you shouldn't see any negative changes." The LiveJournal operators wouldn't violate this statement within moments of its being posted!
Viewing these changes in LiveJournal as positive things may seem bleak at first, but these advancements require a bit of faith. There will always be people to decry every bit of progress as "turning to the dark side," but I, for one, have faith in several of my favorite Internet organizations: Slashdot, LiveJournal, Something Awful, Google, and Amazon, to name several. Usually even their most questionable steps eventually wind up in the bounds of smart thinking and usually good taste.
Man, I'm so unbelievably relieved that you guys are listing off virtually every torrent site in existence. Since obviously nobody at the MPAA would ever think to read Slashdot, it's totally obvious that you should post more torrent sites, including a mirror of one site that was apparently just forced to shut down. No need to be covert here!!
Microsoft learned this the hard way thanks to a certain Mike Rowe's Software company.
I am not quite sure what the Nintendo executives think they're doing, but a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1% of people would have been offended by a couple of this Suicide Girls' favorite games being "Zelda" and "Mario." And yet, they expect far, far more people to buy their new Nintendo portable system. I was just thinking today about how much I wanted this new system... but this unnecessary anal retentive actions has given me a sour taste in my mouth, if only for its blatant stupidity.
Oh maybe I didn't make myself clear. At this stage in time, one's vision is supposed not to be clear. What I was trying to say was that, this is true for me and my vision isn't as clear as it will be. And *yet*, despite this, my vision is still better than that of the other members of my family.
As for the rest of what you said... well you are definitely right. I hope for the best!
Incredible coincidence... I got laser eye surgery today. All I can say is, it's amazing. The best investment I've ever made.
(I'm actually not supposed to be on the computer right now, but... oh well.)
I can already read things at distances that my parents and brother cannot, and my vision hasn't even cleared up yet, the way that it is supposed to.
I got Wavefront LASIK. Traditional LASIK had many problems with it: for example, it tended to injure night vision, and its accuracy wasn't incredible. However, Wavefront LASIK actually pinpoints what your individual eyes look like, and works on your eye so well that it has great accuracy, doesn't hurt night vision much, and has fewer problems associated with it. I can already tell you that I highly recommend LASIK Wavefront, even if it leaves you broke. It's that worth it.
This woman sounds like a capital... (insert word that I don't want to say). People should always try to be as accurate as they can be, and the fact that she doesn't care astounds me. It's ridiculous because anyone, for example in politics, should strive to spread the truth and not lies. Truth that is damning is fine, but lies are terrible, and getting the scoop on a true story is a small reward when the majority of the information coming from your loud mouth is false.
I'm a little afraid of this technology. I can see incorporating visual bits or even taste (I can eat my phone!) into a cell phone...
But feeling? Uh oh.
What happens if someone gets on the phone with you, and punches the little graphic if your tele-head in the face? I can just imagine the new wave of tele-assassinations.
But hey, just imagine the possibilities with pornography!
New advertisements! They're so unintrusive, you don't even see them! All these handy advertisements do is beam signals into your brain that makes you want whatever they're selling! You won't even know that you don't want to buy it!
I can just see it now... "Man... I may be in my college's computer lab, but damn I feel like shampooing with Herbal Essences right now!!"
I can just see it now. People will start hacking into cars' computer systems... you'll start seeing random crashes, or cars doing 360s constantly. Or driving off cliffs.
Not to mention that the market for off-road vehicles will either boom or bust if self-driving cars become a standard.
Though I imagine that most of America will hate the cars anyway. How will people possibly deal with their road rage?! (And don't tell me that people won't have road rage if cars are self-driving. Don't you ever get the urge to just ram old ladies off the road just because?)
I believe most of us feel angry when reading about these vigilantes. I know I do. However, I would encourage all of us to remember that if these vigilantes were, say... tracking down spammers... then we would be extatic.
Yes, I'm aware that there's a difference between pirates and spammers. But keep in mind that the RIAA probably sees P2P users the same way that we see spammers. Annoying, a growing threat, and obsessed with large penises.
This is a very impressive development... but I have to wonder. Current home computers would have no chance of even processing fast enough to keep up with that speed. I wonder how long it would take to get to the point that they would?
However, the idea is exciting... imagine! Internet at the speed of computer.
I find it strange and somewhat stupid that Nintendo hasn't tapped into this market... they should be teaming up with the people making emulators, rather than trying to stop the community from doing what they love.
It's not like they're going to get any money from the Nintendo/SNES/Etc. at this point anyway. I can understand their frustration with a GBA emulator, but the others... just think of the possibilities, Nintendo!!
Surely Nintendo couldn't hurt itself by teaming up with the creators of ZSNES and releasing a commercial version (rather like Linux commercial releases) that includes a bunch of games and some extra features (PDF guides for the games, maybe some touch-ups to the emulator, etc.). Plus, people would get a warm fuzzy feeling for knowing that they'd be collaborating with both Nintendo and emulator creators.
Windows may take $45 dollars per year, but trust me... it certainly takes a lot more, when you factor in all of those lost papers, doomed databases, and the dozen hours each of us loses from meddling with its problems.
SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user.
SCO doesn't sue a Linux user.
Try this:
Tomorrow, we log onto the Internet and witness a vicious battle going on. There's a flash video in which a streaming clip manifests Darl McBride in every home user's web browser. Why? It turns out that the hacker behind MyDoom is actually an evil corporation trying to destroy SCO, the promoter of Open Source software. Its first target was Goatse: by removing an object of internet culture that everyone has a love/hate relationship with, it destabalized the internet. SCO has been working around the clock to resolve the issue and restore the internet to its full power. SCO couldn't tell us its true intents only because that would ruin their plan. And thus we witness Darl McBride fighting against the MyDoom virus, incarnate, yet coded into a flash file.
Suddenly, when it looks like Darl McBride might lose the valiant fight, brilliant hackers intercept the sattelite connection going to SCO and insert special weapons for Darl McBride.
Whammo, Darl McBride wins the battle, and in a tremendous flash of colors, the creepy Peak Oil website literally explodes, covering Google in a hidden cache of virtual oil, which can be printed out by any inkjet printer into real oil.
People even write offensive, politically volatile websites solely for the purpose of getting people to donate money so they can buy Dance Dance Revolution.
Goatse.cx is restored, to the detriment of Internet users everywhere but to the spirit of the Internet altogether.
Darl McBride is hailed as a captain of the Internet, and he forms a team with Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates (who decides to make Windows open source) and Steve Jobs (who decides that maybe Mac programs, as good as they are, should have more than 2 options per program). They develop the ultimate flawless operating system, and Netscape, Opera, and IE combine all their best parts into a browser that has the ability to stretch one's computer screen to twice its physical dimensions while in use.
I've always found the physics to be amazing, and something to aspire to. I'm sure everyone has.
Naturally, it's not possible.
It's rather disappointing to be among the people on earth that don't have super powers, but I suppose we'll live. The fact is, us comic readers (as well as anime-watchers and game-players) constantly see heroes that seem to know when to do the right thing at the right time. No matter how stupid an anime hero can be, he (she?) always seems to be able to take on 20 enemies at once and see a punch coming a mile away. It's the same sort of thing with this comic book physics stuff. These heroes have super powers and they don't appreciate them the way we would. You know what I mean. If you were Superman, you would totally pick a fight with some big dude, and then punch him in the face. You know you would.
To be honest, it feels more like a disappointment than a relief. I'm sure people can identify: we've all faced our horrible problems in the era of Windows 95 and 98 (and others). The operating system seems to completely crash and will only boot up to a screen that tells us some vital file is missing. Or perhaps we have that horrible old floppy disk with a few core programs on it, all of which are near useless. DOS is our only way to go... unless of course the floppy drive is broken. (Happened to me once... rendered the computer seemingly quite useless to me, with my level of knowledge at that time).
Do you know what it's like remembering my MSN searches from 5 years ago, when I checked if a Windows bootable CD was a plausible thing?
After all of those years, and all of those trials... suddenly, it's here. I happen to think that Windows XP is a fine operating system, and with Norton & Ad-Aware, most bad things are kept off my system anyway. Even the horrible "Your computer has started up in 640x480 with 16 colors, no sound card registered, no video card recognized, and no monitor apparently ever installed for NO APPARENT REASON WHATSOEVER" situation rarely comes up. And NOW we have bootable Windows?
It's a silver lining with a cloud, if you ask me.
Good thing that video games aren't just more Matrix worlds... or else every cancellation would mean the deaths of thousands of people currently in beta form.
And, following then trend of the Matrix movies themselves, any sequels would be spectacularly crappy.
(I would have to agree. There are good and evil capatalists, assuming one would demote their descriptions to such general words. But it's the same way with... say... presidential elections; most voters don't seem to realize that there are kind, reasonable Democrats AND Republicans, for instance. It isn't a war where both sides are evil... rather, it's a war where the thoughtful people are against the ignorant/greedy people. The smart, reasonable Republicans and Democrats should gang together and make humanitarian/business decisions without spending millions of dollars swaying the ignorant layman!!)
What I find humorous is that SCO consistently trumps up their services as the "good" side in a war of good vs. evil. Do hardened capatalists actually succeed when they try to convince the public that something free and welcoming to public scrutiny is a bad thing?
Linux sure violates that Constitution... how dare they be kind to the public! This will be the end of America as we know it, surely!
After that article a couple of days ago about the hackers, I was wondering how new potential "script kiddies" would react... would they go in search of viruses and start sending them out, inspired by the article?
Oh well, it doesn't matter.
Now, for a horrible joke!
What did the dog call the cat who was an amateur hacker?
A script kitty!
(sigh)
Slashdot Mirror
The person reporting the ads seems to be the only person seeing them. Therefore, "Person" is reporting ads, not "People." And it could very well be spyware.
The people running LiveJournal seem to be quite aware of an average user's worries about the project; hell, Brad Fitzpatrick himself seems to be one of the crowd who has chosen specifically not to sell his soul to the devil. RTFA to hear what he's actually saying. As he says, "Really you shouldn't see any negative changes." The LiveJournal operators wouldn't violate this statement within moments of its being posted!
Viewing these changes in LiveJournal as positive things may seem bleak at first, but these advancements require a bit of faith. There will always be people to decry every bit of progress as "turning to the dark side," but I, for one, have faith in several of my favorite Internet organizations: Slashdot, LiveJournal, Something Awful, Google, and Amazon, to name several. Usually even their most questionable steps eventually wind up in the bounds of smart thinking and usually good taste.
Man, I'm so unbelievably relieved that you guys are listing off virtually every torrent site in existence. Since obviously nobody at the MPAA would ever think to read Slashdot, it's totally obvious that you should post more torrent sites, including a mirror of one site that was apparently just forced to shut down. No need to be covert here!!
Microsoft learned this the hard way thanks to a certain Mike Rowe's Software company.
I am not quite sure what the Nintendo executives think they're doing, but a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1% of people would have been offended by a couple of this Suicide Girls' favorite games being "Zelda" and "Mario." And yet, they expect far, far more people to buy their new Nintendo portable system. I was just thinking today about how much I wanted this new system... but this unnecessary anal retentive actions has given me a sour taste in my mouth, if only for its blatant stupidity.
Wait, is this a joke?
Are you serious or kidding?
"Fantastic Four" series. One.
Moran.
Hey Judge Don't let me down Take a security threat And make it better Remember, for all the harm that you do Screw the FBI, and be a trendsetter
Oh maybe I didn't make myself clear. At this stage in time, one's vision is supposed not to be clear. What I was trying to say was that, this is true for me and my vision isn't as clear as it will be. And *yet*, despite this, my vision is still better than that of the other members of my family. As for the rest of what you said... well you are definitely right. I hope for the best!
Incredible coincidence... I got laser eye surgery today. All I can say is, it's amazing. The best investment I've ever made. (I'm actually not supposed to be on the computer right now, but... oh well.) I can already read things at distances that my parents and brother cannot, and my vision hasn't even cleared up yet, the way that it is supposed to. I got Wavefront LASIK. Traditional LASIK had many problems with it: for example, it tended to injure night vision, and its accuracy wasn't incredible. However, Wavefront LASIK actually pinpoints what your individual eyes look like, and works on your eye so well that it has great accuracy, doesn't hurt night vision much, and has fewer problems associated with it. I can already tell you that I highly recommend LASIK Wavefront, even if it leaves you broke. It's that worth it.
This woman sounds like a capital... (insert word that I don't want to say). People should always try to be as accurate as they can be, and the fact that she doesn't care astounds me. It's ridiculous because anyone, for example in politics, should strive to spread the truth and not lies. Truth that is damning is fine, but lies are terrible, and getting the scoop on a true story is a small reward when the majority of the information coming from your loud mouth is false.
I'm a little afraid of this technology. I can see incorporating visual bits or even taste (I can eat my phone!) into a cell phone...
But feeling? Uh oh.
What happens if someone gets on the phone with you, and punches the little graphic if your tele-head in the face? I can just imagine the new wave of tele-assassinations.
But hey, just imagine the possibilities with pornography!
New advertisements! They're so unintrusive, you don't even see them! All these handy advertisements do is beam signals into your brain that makes you want whatever they're selling! You won't even know that you don't want to buy it!
I can just see it now... "Man... I may be in my college's computer lab, but damn I feel like shampooing with Herbal Essences right now!!"
Just imagine the pornography ads.
I can just see it now. People will start hacking into cars' computer systems... you'll start seeing random crashes, or cars doing 360s constantly. Or driving off cliffs. Not to mention that the market for off-road vehicles will either boom or bust if self-driving cars become a standard.
Though I imagine that most of America will hate the cars anyway. How will people possibly deal with their road rage?! (And don't tell me that people won't have road rage if cars are self-driving. Don't you ever get the urge to just ram old ladies off the road just because?)
I believe most of us feel angry when reading about these vigilantes. I know I do. However, I would encourage all of us to remember that if these vigilantes were, say... tracking down spammers... then we would be extatic.
Yes, I'm aware that there's a difference between pirates and spammers. But keep in mind that the RIAA probably sees P2P users the same way that we see spammers. Annoying, a growing threat, and obsessed with large penises.
This is a very impressive development... but I have to wonder. Current home computers would have no chance of even processing fast enough to keep up with that speed. I wonder how long it would take to get to the point that they would?
However, the idea is exciting... imagine! Internet at the speed of computer.
I find it strange and somewhat stupid that Nintendo hasn't tapped into this market... they should be teaming up with the people making emulators, rather than trying to stop the community from doing what they love. It's not like they're going to get any money from the Nintendo/SNES/Etc. at this point anyway. I can understand their frustration with a GBA emulator, but the others... just think of the possibilities, Nintendo!! Surely Nintendo couldn't hurt itself by teaming up with the creators of ZSNES and releasing a commercial version (rather like Linux commercial releases) that includes a bunch of games and some extra features (PDF guides for the games, maybe some touch-ups to the emulator, etc.). Plus, people would get a warm fuzzy feeling for knowing that they'd be collaborating with both Nintendo and emulator creators.
Maybe every comment was modded down so heavily that they simply ceased to exist...
Windows may take $45 dollars per year, but trust me... it certainly takes a lot more, when you factor in all of those lost papers, doomed databases, and the dozen hours each of us loses from meddling with its problems.
Someone's suing the RIAA! Good things are going to happen, good things are going to happen.
(Of course, this will end when the RIAA then settles with the woman herself, paying her to shut up.)
In fact, whether the woman wins or loses, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user. SCO is going to sue a Linux user.
SCO doesn't sue a Linux user.
Try this:
Tomorrow, we log onto the Internet and witness a vicious battle going on. There's a flash video in which a streaming clip manifests Darl McBride in every home user's web browser. Why? It turns out that the hacker behind MyDoom is actually an evil corporation trying to destroy SCO, the promoter of Open Source software. Its first target was Goatse: by removing an object of internet culture that everyone has a love/hate relationship with, it destabalized the internet. SCO has been working around the clock to resolve the issue and restore the internet to its full power. SCO couldn't tell us its true intents only because that would ruin their plan. And thus we witness Darl McBride fighting against the MyDoom virus, incarnate, yet coded into a flash file.
Suddenly, when it looks like Darl McBride might lose the valiant fight, brilliant hackers intercept the sattelite connection going to SCO and insert special weapons for Darl McBride.
Whammo, Darl McBride wins the battle, and in a tremendous flash of colors, the creepy Peak Oil website literally explodes, covering Google in a hidden cache of virtual oil, which can be printed out by any inkjet printer into real oil.
People even write offensive, politically volatile websites solely for the purpose of getting people to donate money so they can buy Dance Dance Revolution.
Goatse.cx is restored, to the detriment of Internet users everywhere but to the spirit of the Internet altogether.
Darl McBride is hailed as a captain of the Internet, and he forms a team with Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates (who decides to make Windows open source) and Steve Jobs (who decides that maybe Mac programs, as good as they are, should have more than 2 options per program). They develop the ultimate flawless operating system, and Netscape, Opera, and IE combine all their best parts into a browser that has the ability to stretch one's computer screen to twice its physical dimensions while in use.
True... but then he died.
I've always found the physics to be amazing, and something to aspire to. I'm sure everyone has.
Naturally, it's not possible.
It's rather disappointing to be among the people on earth that don't have super powers, but I suppose we'll live. The fact is, us comic readers (as well as anime-watchers and game-players) constantly see heroes that seem to know when to do the right thing at the right time. No matter how stupid an anime hero can be, he (she?) always seems to be able to take on 20 enemies at once and see a punch coming a mile away. It's the same sort of thing with this comic book physics stuff. These heroes have super powers and they don't appreciate them the way we would. You know what I mean. If you were Superman, you would totally pick a fight with some big dude, and then punch him in the face. You know you would.
To be honest, it feels more like a disappointment than a relief. I'm sure people can identify: we've all faced our horrible problems in the era of Windows 95 and 98 (and others). The operating system seems to completely crash and will only boot up to a screen that tells us some vital file is missing. Or perhaps we have that horrible old floppy disk with a few core programs on it, all of which are near useless. DOS is our only way to go... unless of course the floppy drive is broken. (Happened to me once... rendered the computer seemingly quite useless to me, with my level of knowledge at that time). Do you know what it's like remembering my MSN searches from 5 years ago, when I checked if a Windows bootable CD was a plausible thing? After all of those years, and all of those trials... suddenly, it's here. I happen to think that Windows XP is a fine operating system, and with Norton & Ad-Aware, most bad things are kept off my system anyway. Even the horrible "Your computer has started up in 640x480 with 16 colors, no sound card registered, no video card recognized, and no monitor apparently ever installed for NO APPARENT REASON WHATSOEVER" situation rarely comes up. And NOW we have bootable Windows? It's a silver lining with a cloud, if you ask me.
Good thing that video games aren't just more Matrix worlds... or else every cancellation would mean the deaths of thousands of people currently in beta form. And, following then trend of the Matrix movies themselves, any sequels would be spectacularly crappy.
(I would have to agree. There are good and evil capatalists, assuming one would demote their descriptions to such general words. But it's the same way with... say... presidential elections; most voters don't seem to realize that there are kind, reasonable Democrats AND Republicans, for instance. It isn't a war where both sides are evil... rather, it's a war where the thoughtful people are against the ignorant/greedy people. The smart, reasonable Republicans and Democrats should gang together and make humanitarian/business decisions without spending millions of dollars swaying the ignorant layman!!)
What I find humorous is that SCO consistently trumps up their services as the "good" side in a war of good vs. evil. Do hardened capatalists actually succeed when they try to convince the public that something free and welcoming to public scrutiny is a bad thing? Linux sure violates that Constitution... how dare they be kind to the public! This will be the end of America as we know it, surely!
After that article a couple of days ago about the hackers, I was wondering how new potential "script kiddies" would react... would they go in search of viruses and start sending them out, inspired by the article? Oh well, it doesn't matter. Now, for a horrible joke! What did the dog call the cat who was an amateur hacker? A script kitty! (sigh)