It was either Hugh Hefner or someone else at Playboy who said that they realize that their work is pirated and while they have been known to crack the whip when it got out of hand, they also realize that at least their work is good enough for someone to consider to pirate and that it keeps them in the public view even if they aren't directly making money from it.
"The reason Sagan and people like him were popular was that they had such an ability. It is so rare among scientists that having it becomes noteworthy."
Agreed. I have come to realize that it's all about the metaphor or parallel understanding that too often exists but we choose to ignore. For example, back in 1999 when someone with a grudge decided to DDOS eBay(and I think CNN?) all of my friends were asking me, since I am an old skewl hacker, what happened. I explained that a ping is like sending someone a postcard with a S.A.S.E., and that someone sent a few million of those postcards to a bunch of random people with the return address set as eBay and that eBay was having a hard time sorting through their mail to determine who was real. You could tell they immediately understood the concept and were thrilled that I could bring them into my world, even if only slightly. That's rare though because usually my wife has to explain to everyone what I just said...
You definitely didn't RTFA, or understand the summary. It's a locally run program that reveals passwords for the sites you visit to the person who runs the program.
I was about to reply to you and give you hell for assuming these Indian kids were from other countries but then I realized the summary said "Indian-Americans" not "American Indians"...while that's confusing at least it's not the generic "native Americans".
Johnny Mnemonic?!?!? Sorry, old chump, I'm far more discriminating in regards to what I'll watch and it didn't make the top 100 that year, much less the 3 movies per year I'd bother to see.
They will make it and I will not watch it.. Hollywood has managed to ruin every old movie and TV show from my childhood and they are NOT going to start with one of my favorite books and take Neuromancer away from me.
And to make matters worse, if the police raided your home and killed you and your family "by accident", they'd be all like "oops, my bad" and that'd be the last you'd hear of it. Try to defend yourself and you're committing some form of crime whether that be murder or "obstruction of justice"..
Right, because we should all just do away with the appeals process and kill them without even giving them a trial, huh? I don't think you'd feel the same if someone framed you as happened with a lifetime friend of mine going through a nasty divorce.
I never said that was my reasoning, that was your misinterpretation. As I point out above, an adult always has the option of saying yes where a child does not have that choice.
It's more acceptable because it's far easier to prey on a child than an adult, and taking advantage of that is enhancement to the crime. If you would like to disagree, tell me how easy it would be to get a 21 year old to enter your van because you lost your puppy versus how easy it would be to get a 5 year old to do so. You might be able to trick 1 in every 1,000 women to enter your van(I'll even allow you to offer free Prada purses or whatever they might be hot for)but your odds of preying on a child are far greater since they don't have the experience to know what you're up to.
Can you provide some citations for that? It's always been my experience that it costs far, FAR more to execute someone than to imprison them for life when you take into account that the appeals process is expensive.
Funny thing is, practitioners of neurolinguistic programming(NLP) have been treating and curing(though the FDA, etc. have problems with non-doctors using that word..fuck 'em) phobias in under 5 minutes for close to 30 years. The first person I ever worked with had a phobia of cockroaches and in 5 minutes she was able to function normally; she even petted one of the roaches to prove it wasn't faked.
The device is called MotionWare and was released as a prototype about 10 years ago. The inventor had a hard time getting it to the fast track so the 100 prototypes he made are all that exist. It uses electro-vestibular stimulation to generate the sense of motion(though only through one "channel"[the inner ear] of the three, at least, from which we sense motion[inner ear, proprioceptive and visual]).
Anyway, the hallucinations/visuals seemed to be generated right around my forehead where the front electrode made contact and were always at that spot regardless of where I looked. They were always triggered by cranking the power output up to the maximum setting(I have VERY high skin resistance so this was necessary for me to feel the movement). I attempted to bring this up to the inventor but he didn't seem quite as interested in it as I was. I've since shelved the prototype I bought since I don't really do VR research any more; shame, someone should get some real use out of it as I know it's still functional.
Thank you, sir!!(please someone mod the parent up) That sounds like the issue. My only problem is that I don't recall if I started my subscription in 85 or 86...I guess I'll know shortly when I find the box with all of them in it.
Yet what you provide as proof against its existence is actually just a statement about electricity.... Remember, electricity follows the path of least resistance and copper in power lines provides far less resistance than does air, so perhaps it's just able to "live" longer with power lines around. I've got a friend who once saw what he assumes was ball lightning and he wasn't remotely close to power lines(he was in the woods) but also wasn't remotely close to a camera. He only mentioned it made a crackling sound and moved very erratically...at first he thought it might be a UFO but then realized it was definitely from this earth.
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Playboy were talking more about piracy on the individual level where no commercial gain is typically made.
It was either Hugh Hefner or someone else at Playboy who said that they realize that their work is pirated and while they have been known to crack the whip when it got out of hand, they also realize that at least their work is good enough for someone to consider to pirate and that it keeps them in the public view even if they aren't directly making money from it.
"The reason Sagan and people like him were popular was that they had such an ability. It is so rare among scientists that having it becomes noteworthy."
Agreed. I have come to realize that it's all about the metaphor or parallel understanding that too often exists but we choose to ignore. For example, back in 1999 when someone with a grudge decided to DDOS eBay(and I think CNN?) all of my friends were asking me, since I am an old skewl hacker, what happened. I explained that a ping is like sending someone a postcard with a S.A.S.E., and that someone sent a few million of those postcards to a bunch of random people with the return address set as eBay and that eBay was having a hard time sorting through their mail to determine who was real. You could tell they immediately understood the concept and were thrilled that I could bring them into my world, even if only slightly. That's rare though because usually my wife has to explain to everyone what I just said...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan
Seriously, with all the plot issues of Tron, it was still light years ahead of that...
You definitely didn't RTFA, or understand the summary. It's a locally run program that reveals passwords for the sites you visit to the person who runs the program.
If you assign a master password that changes for you a bit; it won't show them without you entering the master password, twice IIRC.
I was about to reply to you and give you hell for assuming these Indian kids were from other countries but then I realized the summary said "Indian-Americans" not "American Indians"...while that's confusing at least it's not the generic "native Americans".
Johnny Mnemonic?!?!? Sorry, old chump, I'm far more discriminating in regards to what I'll watch and it didn't make the top 100 that year, much less the 3 movies per year I'd bother to see.
They will make it and I will not watch it.. Hollywood has managed to ruin every old movie and TV show from my childhood and they are NOT going to start with one of my favorite books and take Neuromancer away from me.
Think of all the fun you could have with the people who are talking on a cell phone, smoking a cigarette and reading the newspaper while driving..
He was a magician too...for that he'll be missed equally as much...
And to make matters worse, if the police raided your home and killed you and your family "by accident", they'd be all like "oops, my bad" and that'd be the last you'd hear of it. Try to defend yourself and you're committing some form of crime whether that be murder or "obstruction of justice"..
Right, because we should all just do away with the appeals process and kill them without even giving them a trial, huh? I don't think you'd feel the same if someone framed you as happened with a lifetime friend of mine going through a nasty divorce.
"With the money we save by executing people who we don't give any appeals process to, we could save 100s of starving people all over the world."
FTFY
I never said that was my reasoning, that was your misinterpretation. As I point out above, an adult always has the option of saying yes where a child does not have that choice.
An adult can always say yes, a child doesn't have that option.
I'd agree except people don't work for free and there are a LOT of people involved in the process, not just lawyers and judges.
No, but only one of those choices allows for a mistake to be somewhat corrected if there is a mistake on the part of the court system.
It's more acceptable because it's far easier to prey on a child than an adult, and taking advantage of that is enhancement to the crime. If you would like to disagree, tell me how easy it would be to get a 21 year old to enter your van because you lost your puppy versus how easy it would be to get a 5 year old to do so. You might be able to trick 1 in every 1,000 women to enter your van(I'll even allow you to offer free Prada purses or whatever they might be hot for)but your odds of preying on a child are far greater since they don't have the experience to know what you're up to.
Can you provide some citations for that? It's always been my experience that it costs far, FAR more to execute someone than to imprison them for life when you take into account that the appeals process is expensive.
It should work with needles no problem. See if you can find an NLP practitioner in your area and they can walk you through it pretty quickly.
Funny thing is, practitioners of neurolinguistic programming(NLP) have been treating and curing(though the FDA, etc. have problems with non-doctors using that word..fuck 'em) phobias in under 5 minutes for close to 30 years. The first person I ever worked with had a phobia of cockroaches and in 5 minutes she was able to function normally; she even petted one of the roaches to prove it wasn't faked.
The device is called MotionWare and was released as a prototype about 10 years ago. The inventor had a hard time getting it to the fast track so the 100 prototypes he made are all that exist. It uses electro-vestibular stimulation to generate the sense of motion(though only through one "channel"[the inner ear] of the three, at least, from which we sense motion[inner ear, proprioceptive and visual]).
Anyway, the hallucinations/visuals seemed to be generated right around my forehead where the front electrode made contact and were always at that spot regardless of where I looked. They were always triggered by cranking the power output up to the maximum setting(I have VERY high skin resistance so this was necessary for me to feel the movement). I attempted to bring this up to the inventor but he didn't seem quite as interested in it as I was. I've since shelved the prototype I bought since I don't really do VR research any more; shame, someone should get some real use out of it as I know it's still functional.
Thank you, sir!!(please someone mod the parent up) That sounds like the issue. My only problem is that I don't recall if I started my subscription in 85 or 86...I guess I'll know shortly when I find the box with all of them in it.
Yet what you provide as proof against its existence is actually just a statement about electricity.... Remember, electricity follows the path of least resistance and copper in power lines provides far less resistance than does air, so perhaps it's just able to "live" longer with power lines around. I've got a friend who once saw what he assumes was ball lightning and he wasn't remotely close to power lines(he was in the woods) but also wasn't remotely close to a camera. He only mentioned it made a crackling sound and moved very erratically...at first he thought it might be a UFO but then realized it was definitely from this earth.