I despise Palin, and it's hilarious that someone got in just by guessing her 'security' questions, but why is the secret email with other officials bad? Shouldn't secret communications always be an option? She could have just had meetings in closed conference rooms, what's the difference if it's done over the 'net?
Looks fun and all, but it's proprietary, so what's the use? It's probably full of FBI back doors, or at the very least, marketing dept. back doors. Even without evilness on their part, do you really trust their precompiled java binary to encrypt your data in a way you can't inspect, or can't verify with people who know more about crypto?
If you really need something like this, go with what others have posted, and try http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
This is because fat has *no* taste whatsoever to humans. Fat can absorb other flavors, and is essential to texture, but the idea that you can taste fat is ludicrous. You might get good brain feedback from the feeling of fat in your mouth, but the flavor is coming from other parts of the food.
I don't eat meat anymore, but when I did, I only liked meat that was heavily spiced or smoked. I think this is because corn-fed meat basically tastes like nothing. Gamey meat like venison was interesting, and fish obviously is great, but I don't get what the big deal is about beef and chicken esp. the industrially-produced kind.
Kinda how I imagine dust would taste.
Lateley I eat fake meat (seitan, wheat, soy, and other types) that is way more interesting flavor-wise than meat ever was, without indigestion, gas, and that slightly nauseated feeling you get about eating a corpse. There is still a lot of really awful-tasting fake meat out there (tofurkey, boca burgers, etc. that stuff makes me miss real animals) but the 'technology' is advancing to the point where I'm on the brink of veganism. Once they figure out cheese pizza, I'll be set.
Monster Cables are always recommended by the longhairs in Guitar Center and other music stores. Those dudes get really confused when I say I never buy Monster. Worst Instrument Cables Ever. They're so noisy, tangle easily, crappy frequency response. And did I mention they're noisy? By this I mean you plug in your guitar and when you move around the electrical capacitance (or whatever, I'm no engineer) of the cable turns it into one giant contact mic. Terrible. I hope people will wake up and realize that these products suck.
Excuse me? Invisible hand? This is a monopoly. I'm not allowed to just start a huge company and set up copper wires spanning the country to sell broadband. The free market has nothing to do whatever with crony capitalist systems like the U.S. telecommunications industry.
Excuse me if this sounds radical, but I don't really think it is...
You can't fix it, and industries die with time. There is no reason why anyone should ever expect to be compensated for their work, unless they made a very specific agreement with another person beforehand. That's not a joke. If you are a writer, and it becomes impossible for people to both have their rights (the right to share information freely, in this case) and for you to make money, then guess what? It means you need a new job. This is not an attempt to be snide or mean to writers or artists. People will always create, no matter what. The poorest, most overworked people in the world produce amazing music and writing every day, and are compensated only in the rarest cases. I'm not talking about people at Comedy Central, I'm talking about farmers, file clerks, janitors, and even homeless people. I'm in favor of socialism, but the prevailing religion is the free market. In a truly free market there are no guarantees.
The article refers to FZ as 'largely self-taught.' Try 100% self-taught, and in no way an intellectual or tech geek. Just a guy who got obsessed with 20th century composition and spent many hours in music libraries reading scores. No one with hordes of groupies counts as a geek.
Um, guess what? All that stuff can be encrypted. Get with it, people. If it's possible to log in to someone else's computer as their user, you're living in the stone age. Worried about network sniffing in the age of SSL? People reading your email in the age of PGP and encrypted folders or partitions? If you work in IT, you should have some idea how and where your computer stores data, and how easy that is for others to read.
Wow, way to miss the point. It's not that I want things changed to my liking, I want things left the way they originally were for years. That's a perfectly reasonable request. Make both versions available or whatever. Besides, boycotting a sci-fi fantasy movie isn't exactly throwing a tantrum, it's staying home and doing something else when the movie comes out. I still encourage others to do the same. It shouldn't be difficult considering the level of quality of episodes I and II.
Until I see an official dvd release of the original 3 movies, as they were edited in the 80s, with no added digital jabbas walking around, and without horrible late-90s smooth jazz in ROtJ, I will be boycotting all George-Lucas related everything, including (and most importantly) the movies themselves. I encourage you all to do the same. Please do not let this be a reason for you to tell me why the movies shouldn't be boycotted, because I don't care. You're either with me or against me!
The term libertarian used to mean someone who wanted to be free from the bonds that power imposes on us. Now it means those who favor corporate power over state power. Whoopy for libertarianism.
I consider myself both a libertarian and a socialist, which is only a contradiction if you accept the prevailing framework of politics. Unfortunately most people associate libertarianism with "The Libertarian Party". I guess the term "anarchist" is good enough for me, but it's been co-opted as meaning pro-violence or pro-destruction.
I hereby Second the parent post, however not as an Anonymous Coward, since they said pretty much what I would have said. More on-topic, I'd like to mention that I'm very worried about the obvious brainwashing (not to mention historical revision in games about various past wars) being put forth by game designers. Hopefully people will still read books in the future, so they will know it's all a bunch of crap. I stick with games that don't involve modern warfare, because it pisses me off that it's supposed to be realistic and obviously could never be realistic.
Imagine a realistic game about Vietnam for example: Torturing the enemy, rape, venereal disease, not really knowing what your mission is, free-fire zones, search and destroy missions, snorting heroin and getting hooked..... wow sounds like a lot of fun!
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I despise Palin, and it's hilarious that someone got in just by guessing her 'security' questions, but why is the secret email with other officials bad? Shouldn't secret communications always be an option? She could have just had meetings in closed conference rooms, what's the difference if it's done over the 'net?
They obviously put "flamebait" because there's no "-1, Racist" mod. Although I think "Troll" generally covers racist remarks.
Those guys sound like they care about issues, and know how to give speeches, read and write. Doesn't that disqualify them from running for president?
Looks fun and all, but it's proprietary, so what's the use? It's probably full of FBI back doors, or at the very least, marketing dept. back doors. Even without evilness on their part, do you really trust their precompiled java binary to encrypt your data in a way you can't inspect, or can't verify with people who know more about crypto? If you really need something like this, go with what others have posted, and try http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
This is because fat has *no* taste whatsoever to humans. Fat can absorb other flavors, and is essential to texture, but the idea that you can taste fat is ludicrous. You might get good brain feedback from the feeling of fat in your mouth, but the flavor is coming from other parts of the food.
I don't eat meat anymore, but when I did, I only liked meat that was heavily spiced or smoked. I think this is because corn-fed meat basically tastes like nothing. Gamey meat like venison was interesting, and fish obviously is great, but I don't get what the big deal is about beef and chicken esp. the industrially-produced kind.
Kinda how I imagine dust would taste.
Lateley I eat fake meat (seitan, wheat, soy, and other types) that is way more interesting flavor-wise than meat ever was, without indigestion, gas, and that slightly nauseated feeling you get about eating a corpse. There is still a lot of really awful-tasting fake meat out there (tofurkey, boca burgers, etc. that stuff makes me miss real animals) but the 'technology' is advancing to the point where I'm on the brink of veganism. Once they figure out cheese pizza, I'll be set.
Monster Cables are always recommended by the longhairs in Guitar Center and other music stores. Those dudes get really confused when I say I never buy Monster. Worst Instrument Cables Ever. They're so noisy, tangle easily, crappy frequency response. And did I mention they're noisy? By this I mean you plug in your guitar and when you move around the electrical capacitance (or whatever, I'm no engineer) of the cable turns it into one giant contact mic. Terrible. I hope people will wake up and realize that these products suck.
Assuming it's not a joke... Anyone using this standard for anything deserves a punch in the face.
Excuse me? Invisible hand? This is a monopoly. I'm not allowed to just start a huge company and set up copper wires spanning the country to sell broadband. The free market has nothing to do whatever with crony capitalist systems like the U.S. telecommunications industry.
Excuse me if this sounds radical, but I don't really think it is...
You can't fix it, and industries die with time. There is no reason why anyone should ever expect to be compensated for their work, unless they made a very specific agreement with another person beforehand. That's not a joke. If you are a writer, and it becomes impossible for people to both have their rights (the right to share information freely, in this case) and for you to make money, then guess what? It means you need a new job. This is not an attempt to be snide or mean to writers or artists. People will always create, no matter what. The poorest, most overworked people in the world produce amazing music and writing every day, and are compensated only in the rarest cases. I'm not talking about people at Comedy Central, I'm talking about farmers, file clerks, janitors, and even homeless people. I'm in favor of socialism, but the prevailing religion is the free market. In a truly free market there are no guarantees.
Just let it die, people. It's not like you'll starve to death .
The article refers to FZ as 'largely self-taught.' Try 100% self-taught, and in no way an intellectual or tech geek. Just a guy who got obsessed with 20th century composition and spent many hours in music libraries reading scores. No one with hordes of groupies counts as a geek.
Um, guess what? All that stuff can be encrypted. Get with it, people. If it's possible to log in to someone else's computer as their user, you're living in the stone age. Worried about network sniffing in the age of SSL? People reading your email in the age of PGP and encrypted folders or partitions? If you work in IT, you should have some idea how and where your computer stores data, and how easy that is for others to read.
Because U.S. cops aren't just plain trigger happy, are they?
You buy the books, which is why the "intellectual property" is so valuable.
Create and/or participate in a non-commercial culture if this stuff bothers you.
If your song was:
4'33" by John Cage, press 1.
Tape Dada by Merzbow, press 2.
Schrei X by Diamanda Galas, press 3.
The Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer by Lamonte Young, press 4.
I don't think this will work with my music collection.
--Matt
The Fifth HOPE conference had some great lectures. Here's a link.
Matt
Since we all have guns here in the good ol' USA, no one is ever mugged. Matt
Wow, way to miss the point. It's not that I want things changed to my liking, I want things left the way they originally were for years. That's a perfectly reasonable request. Make both versions available or whatever. Besides, boycotting a sci-fi fantasy movie isn't exactly throwing a tantrum, it's staying home and doing something else when the movie comes out. I still encourage others to do the same. It shouldn't be difficult considering the level of quality of episodes I and II.
Matt
Until I see an official dvd release of the original 3 movies, as they were edited in the 80s, with no added digital jabbas walking around, and without horrible late-90s smooth jazz in ROtJ, I will be boycotting all George-Lucas related everything, including (and most importantly) the movies themselves. I encourage you all to do the same. Please do not let this be a reason for you to tell me why the movies shouldn't be boycotted, because I don't care. You're either with me or against me!
Matt, soon to lose my good karma.
I think my point about "the prevailing framework" is pretty well proven by the above post.
Matt
The term libertarian used to mean someone who wanted to be free from the bonds that power imposes on us. Now it means those who favor corporate power over state power. Whoopy for libertarianism.
I consider myself both a libertarian and a socialist, which is only a contradiction if you accept the prevailing framework of politics. Unfortunately most people associate libertarianism with "The Libertarian Party". I guess the term "anarchist" is good enough for me, but it's been co-opted as meaning pro-violence or pro-destruction.
Matt
I hereby Second the parent post, however not as an Anonymous Coward, since they said pretty much what I would have said. More on-topic, I'd like to mention that I'm very worried about the obvious brainwashing (not to mention historical revision in games about various past wars) being put forth by game designers. Hopefully people will still read books in the future, so they will know it's all a bunch of crap. I stick with games that don't involve modern warfare, because it pisses me off that it's supposed to be realistic and obviously could never be realistic.
Imagine a realistic game about Vietnam for example: Torturing the enemy, rape, venereal disease, not really knowing what your mission is, free-fire zones, search and destroy missions, snorting heroin and getting hooked..... wow sounds like a lot of fun!
Matt
I'm pretty sure D&D was invented in Wisconsin.
Matt
You guys want 4000 dollars for that plasma screen TV? You clearly do not have a legitimate interest in holding it....YOINK.
Matt
No, it's not ironic. It's every major business venture in modern day America.
Matt