How many times do we have to snicker at some IBM execs quote about the computers that is almost 60 years old. Think about it, IBM didn't say this in '79, but back in the 40's where no one here could even recognize a '40s computer if it fell on their head.
If you think this is funny, try some futurists's sites, you'll fall over in laughter. Or check out what Arthur C. Clarke has written in the past 5 years about the future.
This is just ridiculous, is there a need to impose such a system? Can we trust the government not to abuse this? Of course not. Unfortunatly for us there aren't many geek celebrities so any various crap that happens to fall out of their mouths eventually becomes "news."
If a DNA program was to begin guess who it would start with first? Ex-Felons like Kevin. "Looks like you used this computer Kevin, time to goto jail again."
"But, it was an ATM machine and I needed the money."
"You should have thought of that before you cloned cell phones."
That's how your government is most likely to treat you not some pie in the sky utopian ideals of perfect permanant records of each citizen with guarantees of freedom.
State lotteries do focus on the working poor who really can't afford to play but do anyways and gambling is completely legal for non-profits like church bingo. On-line bingo is sure on its way.
State lotteries only have to gain with online sales, consider how many more upwardly mobile people they could get if all it took was one click and an automated pay-system. You could set up a condition like, if prize is greater than 20million buy 20 tickets and email everyone in my "lottery group." The twenty dollars is paid through a debit card and someone else has 1 in 50 million odds of winning that money.
This is pretty much what I wrote when this was up on Metafilter yesterday, the judge's reasoning is ludicrious. You think he'll give me a pilot's license if I put 40 hours into MS's Flight Simulator? Is this guy so fargone that he assumes violence = behavioral changes and videogame interface = military training?
He uses porn because he needs to compare games to something that's already has a huge taboo. This is conservative America at work for you.
The worst part of this ban is that I've seen more than my fair share of posts of people saying, "Well I'm 18 now so I don't care." You really have to look at legislation aimed at minors and think back to how it would have affected you back then and how you would have reacted along with the facts of the case. Its just like that Simpsons were the senior citizens eventually put on a 5pm cerfew.
That just means there's too many people unwilling to read other blogs, this is old news at www.memepool.com. Heck its old news here too.
Slashdot being this huge does have its ups and it definatly has its downs. I think with such a large audience they can post more than a handful of stories a day or put up a page of rejected stories. Doubt the latter will ever happen, then someone could make their own slashdot with those submitions and take ad revenue away from whomever owns/. this quarter.
Mod me down for expressing my opinion, I've got more Karma than you can imagine.
10 minutes after the interview Gary rolled a 6, which meant for him to keep his dying industry alive by being geekier than anyone else possible.
I'd probably need a good dose of biblethumping or therapy after reaching the zero-self esteem point which lets me say stuff like, "Okay, I'm an elf with turquise eyes and a +1 midget slaying dagger hidden in my garish coat of many-pockets" without extreme embarassment.
Who do you think sponsers your elections? All the campaign money is from corporations and candidates have an obligation to keep their underhanded promises when they get in office.
I may be able to avoid buying Nike, but everyone on the ballot who has a chance of winning has already been bought by the Nikes and others. Publicly funded campaigns are needed to avoid monied interests. Browne isn't against accepting gobs of soft-money just like everyone else on the hill.
Do you seriously think corporations don't have any control over you? You must live in on a planet free of monopolies and corporate abuse. Think Microsoft is bad now? Give them a dose of Browne-style "liberty" and we'll really have something to complain about.
That's what Harry Browne stands for, eliminating social programs and social progress. Remember one of the individuals who will be suddenly empowered will be corporations. Think big-business is out of control now, wait till Browne gets his turn in office. Make no mistake about it, Libertarianism is the new Republicanism, just less Jesus. Just look at his views on abortion. He should just become Buchanan's VP.
Back to the real issue, the problem is in a debate when one person says something especially stupid (anti-net propaganda) its the other person's job to jump right on it. But Gore just smiled showing agreement. If this isn't the best reason to open up the debates to third party candidates I don't know what is. Toss the Lib, Green, and the Socialist and we'll have a real debate.
After an exhaustive "9 volt to the tongue" type experiment outside NEC's cafeteria, 98% of the random subjects all reported that the "damn proton battery hurts like a motherfucker." The remaining 2% had tongue piercings and could not legally participate in the in-company experiment.
Results will be expected on-line shortly at the NEC homepage, with Realmedia clips of the after-effects of licking including slurred incomprehensible speech that may or may not be profanity.
An NEC engineer was later quoted as saying, "we're working hard on clear and concise warning labels for kids so they don't do the same thing, but it probably won't make much of a difference," probably refering to socially inept and possibly really stupid children like his own son, Samuel, who is often the subject of taunts and dares.
After a double-homicide in the quiet suburb of Oak Park, Illinois both residents of the Harry S. Adams House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, were found dead. Police are now suspecting both ICANN candidates Emerson Tiller and Barbara Simons as the murderers. Motive has not been established yet, but these ICANN candidates are still at large and presumably heading towards a trade-show in Indianapolis.
The directors have been quoted as having been "inspired" or influenced or whatever from certain anime movies. Serial Experiments Lain is definately one of them, not just in scenes but in concept and story.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 gives protections against interception and wiretaping. My employer can look at my mail that's saved and transmitted between her servers but cannot attempt to intercept my mail going to Hotmail or a remote ISP. This would be like Ameritech saying "we own these wires, we're going to record all your conversations."
This isn't half as freaky as this cyborg eel. It may only have a few neurons, but its still a real cyborg. No pictures but this is the robot model they used, scroll down its the one in the middle. This is a picture of the lamprey eel.
I can also see the preview for 'cyborg wars' on Comedy Central.
First off, how many people know what a packet sniffer is? It isn't obvious unless you live in a fantasy world full of geeks. Non-techs should not only be better informed but also don't need apthetic people like you saying, "too bad."
Imagine if my conservative company has a list of words they like to keep track of going over their network, like pot, work sucks, aids, etc. I IM or email a buddy about getting high, think that I could have a terrible illness, or what parts of my job suck and now the admins go and tell the execs that I'm suddenly high risk. They could easily come up with some bullshit reason to fire me, like "not being a team player."
What they won't do is read my email off to me and say "Okay looks like you've smoked pot before and don't like 3 people in your department, it says it right here to the people you emailed over the last six weeks."
In other words they won't admit to violating my privacy (which last I checked they dont have a right to if its on a remote server) but will easily use that information against me.
As much as I want to join in sophomoric fun chuckling at levitating frogs and sex in MRIs, I think a lot of people (especially/. readers) assume this is all CSICOP-style "debunking."
Its really just for a laugh, and a lot of the prize winners are great ideas. Ever try to plan a marriage? Quite the headache, Moon and the city of Las Vegas has done us a great social service. I know Pawsense has sold more than a few copies, how much software have you sold?
The awards would make a lot more sense if they didn't include ridiculous psuedoscience and just stuck to well-meaning research that just turns out to be hilarious. I'm sure its just easier to pick on Breatharians than to use your brain and sense of humor to find something that isn't painfully and obviously weird.
Gamers in general will be drawn to this, and depending on the marketing campaign curious onlookers too. The CGI is very nice, but I can't stand those damn celebrity voices, I can't stop thinking "James Woods" or whomever. Why is it that once an animated movie reaches a budget over 5 mill suddenly Jewel and Drew Barrymore "star" in it. It really distracts from the story as these people have more or less been typecast in their most popular roles, while real talented voice-only actors go ignored. Smart move Sony.
Not only is the block servers option missing, but everytime my hosts file blocks an ad I get an "Connection refused" dialog box I have to click. Nor can I get the properties of an image without first copying its location and then pasting it someplace I can see it or view the entire page source.
I can get rid of the box pop-ups if I run apache, then I get a quick "not Found" message in the ad space. But I don't think I'll be switching from IE anytime soon. How's junkbuster work with this version?
Rumors of a secret Siberian launch containing only 16oz of Desenex anti-fungal cream confirms earlier rumors of all this getting started with a bad case of Jock Itch. Much speculation has been focused on the Russian personal hygiene regimine and funding problems associated with finding the solution to the infamous "Sweaty space shorts."
RIAA artists and indie labels have a contract with the artists. The label pays to promote, produce, etc the artist and the artist agrees to their usually evil paying scheme. Lets say the "pay the signed artist" deal goes through then the RIAA will be suing their own musicians, and they will win everytime.
Un-signed bands are a completly different story, you can send them whatever you please.
Groupthink is exactly the problem. The solution? Disable the ability to take moderation points away from a post. Only allow users to push them up, the trolling/spamming nonsense can be taken care of by a small group of volunteers who will only take down "first post" and "penis bird" posts. Heck, you could write code for that.
Troll moderation should be eliminated as its been proven many times before that slashdotters can't tell the difference between a true troll and a dissenting opinion.
The windows learning curve is steep if you consider the problems associated with the OS itself, hardware problems, drivers, etc. It isn't exactly a NetPC or a WebTV for that matter. Every non-power user has a power user buddy they call on these frequent times of emergencies.
You shouldn't be so Linux-centric, if what you say is true there's always the Mac.
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How many times do we have to snicker at some IBM execs quote about the computers that is almost 60 years old. Think about it, IBM didn't say this in '79, but back in the 40's where no one here could even recognize a '40s computer if it fell on their head.
If you think this is funny, try some futurists's sites, you'll fall over in laughter. Or check out what Arthur C. Clarke has written in the past 5 years about the future.
This is just ridiculous, is there a need to impose such a system? Can we trust the government not to abuse this? Of course not. Unfortunatly for us there aren't many geek celebrities so any various crap that happens to fall out of their mouths eventually becomes "news."
If a DNA program was to begin guess who it would start with first? Ex-Felons like Kevin. "Looks like you used this computer Kevin, time to goto jail again."
"But, it was an ATM machine and I needed the money."
"You should have thought of that before you cloned cell phones."
That's how your government is most likely to treat you not some pie in the sky utopian ideals of perfect permanant records of each citizen with guarantees of freedom.
State lotteries do focus on the working poor who really can't afford to play but do anyways and gambling is completely legal for non-profits like church bingo. On-line bingo is sure on its way.
State lotteries only have to gain with online sales, consider how many more upwardly mobile people they could get if all it took was one click and an automated pay-system. You could set up a condition like, if prize is greater than 20million buy 20 tickets and email everyone in my "lottery group." The twenty dollars is paid through a debit card and someone else has 1 in 50 million odds of winning that money.
This is pretty much what I wrote when this was up on Metafilter yesterday, the judge's reasoning is ludicrious. You think he'll give me a pilot's license if I put 40 hours into MS's Flight Simulator? Is this guy so fargone that he assumes violence = behavioral changes and videogame interface = military training?
He uses porn because he needs to compare games to something that's already has a huge taboo. This is conservative America at work for you.
The worst part of this ban is that I've seen more than my fair share of posts of people saying, "Well I'm 18 now so I don't care." You really have to look at legislation aimed at minors and think back to how it would have affected you back then and how you would have reacted along with the facts of the case. Its just like that Simpsons were the senior citizens eventually put on a 5pm cerfew.
That just means there's too many people unwilling to read other blogs, this is old news at www.memepool.com. Heck its old news here too.
/. this quarter.
Slashdot being this huge does have its ups and it definatly has its downs. I think with such a large audience they can post more than a handful of stories a day or put up a page of rejected stories. Doubt the latter will ever happen, then someone could make their own slashdot with those submitions and take ad revenue away from whomever owns
Mod me down for expressing my opinion, I've got more Karma than you can imagine.
10 minutes after the interview Gary rolled a 6, which meant for him to keep his dying industry alive by being geekier than anyone else possible.
I'd probably need a good dose of biblethumping or therapy after reaching the zero-self esteem point which lets me say stuff like, "Okay, I'm an elf with turquise eyes and a +1 midget slaying dagger hidden in my garish coat of many-pockets" without extreme embarassment.
Who do you think sponsers your elections? All the campaign money is from corporations and candidates have an obligation to keep their underhanded promises when they get in office.
I may be able to avoid buying Nike, but everyone on the ballot who has a chance of winning has already been bought by the Nikes and others. Publicly funded campaigns are needed to avoid monied interests. Browne isn't against accepting gobs of soft-money just like everyone else on the hill.
Do you seriously think corporations don't have any control over you? You must live in on a planet free of monopolies and corporate abuse. Think Microsoft is bad now? Give them a dose of Browne-style "liberty" and we'll really have something to complain about.
That's what Harry Browne stands for, eliminating social programs and social progress. Remember one of the individuals who will be suddenly empowered will be corporations. Think big-business is out of control now, wait till Browne gets his turn in office. Make no mistake about it, Libertarianism is the new Republicanism, just less Jesus. Just look at his views on abortion. He should just become Buchanan's VP.
Back to the real issue, the problem is in a debate when one person says something especially stupid (anti-net propaganda) its the other person's job to jump right on it. But Gore just smiled showing agreement. If this isn't the best reason to open up the debates to third party candidates I don't know what is. Toss the Lib, Green, and the Socialist and we'll have a real debate.
Info on 3rd party candidates can be found here:
Nader
Browne
McReynolds
Buchanan
Read up before you vote, please. show is hardly a place to find facts.
After an exhaustive "9 volt to the tongue" type experiment outside NEC's cafeteria, 98% of the random subjects all reported that the "damn proton battery hurts like a motherfucker." The remaining 2% had tongue piercings and could not legally participate in the in-company experiment.
Results will be expected on-line shortly at the NEC homepage, with Realmedia clips of the after-effects of licking including slurred incomprehensible speech that may or may not be profanity.
An NEC engineer was later quoted as saying, "we're working hard on clear and concise warning labels for kids so they don't do the same thing, but it probably won't make much of a difference," probably refering to socially inept and possibly really stupid children like his own son, Samuel, who is often the subject of taunts and dares.
After a double-homicide in the quiet suburb of Oak Park, Illinois both residents of the Harry S. Adams House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, were found dead. Police are now suspecting both ICANN candidates Emerson Tiller and Barbara Simons as the murderers. Motive has not been established yet, but these ICANN candidates are still at large and presumably heading towards a trade-show in Indianapolis.
The directors have been quoted as having been "inspired" or influenced or whatever from certain anime movies. Serial Experiments Lain is definately one of them, not just in scenes but in concept and story.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 gives protections against interception and wiretaping. My employer can look at my mail that's saved and transmitted between her servers but cannot attempt to intercept my mail going to Hotmail or a remote ISP. This would be like Ameritech saying "we own these wires, we're going to record all your conversations."
This isn't half as freaky as this cyborg eel. It may only have a few neurons, but its still a real cyborg. No pictures but this is the robot model they used, scroll down its the one in the middle. This is a picture of the lamprey eel.
I can also see the preview for 'cyborg wars' on Comedy Central.
First off, how many people know what a packet sniffer is? It isn't obvious unless you live in a fantasy world full of geeks. Non-techs should not only be better informed but also don't need apthetic people like you saying, "too bad."
Imagine if my conservative company has a list of words they like to keep track of going over their network, like pot, work sucks, aids, etc. I IM or email a buddy about getting high, think that I could have a terrible illness, or what parts of my job suck and now the admins go and tell the execs that I'm suddenly high risk. They could easily come up with some bullshit reason to fire me, like "not being a team player."
What they won't do is read my email off to me and say "Okay looks like you've smoked pot before and don't like 3 people in your department, it says it right here to the people you emailed over the last six weeks."
In other words they won't admit to violating my privacy (which last I checked they dont have a right to if its on a remote server) but will easily use that information against me.
As much as I want to join in sophomoric fun chuckling at levitating frogs and sex in MRIs, I think a lot of people (especially /. readers) assume this is all CSICOP-style "debunking."
Its really just for a laugh, and a lot of the prize winners are great ideas. Ever try to plan a marriage? Quite the headache, Moon and the city of Las Vegas has done us a great social service. I know Pawsense has sold more than a few copies, how much software have you sold?
The awards would make a lot more sense if they didn't include ridiculous psuedoscience and just stuck to well-meaning research that just turns out to be hilarious. I'm sure its just easier to pick on Breatharians than to use your brain and sense of humor to find something that isn't painfully and obviously weird.
Gamers in general will be drawn to this, and depending on the marketing campaign curious onlookers too. The CGI is very nice, but I can't stand those damn celebrity voices, I can't stop thinking "James Woods" or whomever. Why is it that once an animated movie reaches a budget over 5 mill suddenly Jewel and Drew Barrymore "star" in it. It really distracts from the story as these people have more or less been typecast in their most popular roles, while real talented voice-only actors go ignored. Smart move Sony.
Say it with me, "Geneticaly-Designed Placenta Soup." Yummy.
Not only is the block servers option missing, but everytime my hosts file blocks an ad I get an "Connection refused" dialog box I have to click. Nor can I get the properties of an image without first copying its location and then pasting it someplace I can see it or view the entire page source.
I can get rid of the box pop-ups if I run apache, then I get a quick "not Found" message in the ad space. But I don't think I'll be switching from IE anytime soon. How's junkbuster work with this version?
Pepsi owns Pizza Hut, is it okay if they splashed some on top of my supreme or pre-dipped my breadsticks in it?
Rumors of a secret Siberian launch containing only 16oz of Desenex anti-fungal cream confirms earlier rumors of all this getting started with a bad case of Jock Itch. Much speculation has been focused on the Russian personal hygiene regimine and funding problems associated with finding the solution to the infamous "Sweaty space shorts."
RIAA artists and indie labels have a contract with the artists. The label pays to promote, produce, etc the artist and the artist agrees to their usually evil paying scheme. Lets say the "pay the signed artist" deal goes through then the RIAA will be suing their own musicians, and they will win everytime.
Un-signed bands are a completly different story, you can send them whatever you please.
Groupthink is exactly the problem. The solution? Disable the ability to take moderation points away from a post. Only allow users to push them up, the trolling/spamming nonsense can be taken care of by a small group of volunteers who will only take down "first post" and "penis bird" posts. Heck, you could write code for that.
Troll moderation should be eliminated as its been proven many times before that slashdotters can't tell the difference between a true troll and a dissenting opinion.
The windows learning curve is steep if you consider the problems associated with the OS itself, hardware problems, drivers, etc. It isn't exactly a NetPC or a WebTV for that matter. Every non-power user has a power user buddy they call on these frequent times of emergencies.
You shouldn't be so Linux-centric, if what you say is true there's always the Mac.
Get a sense of humor.
Click away I've got tons more Karma than you'll ever have.
Lisa "I recognize all three of those words but that statement doesn't make any sense."
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