Yeah its cute, but its just the equilevent of pepper spray for electronics. Where's the promises of the EMP gun I've been hearing all my life? Crashing a computer running windows is an accomplishment?!?! Redmond mastered this years ago.
I don't just want to crash your system I want to destroy it. Oh, I'm not limiting myself to PCs, I need an EMP gun to get cell phones, cell towers, and most importantly assholes with giant subwoofers in their cars. Snoop, your days are numbered!
Alec is just about the only person who gives Star Wars its much deserved criticisms. IMO, he's a lot like Pete Townshend talking about the successes and failures of The Who.
How would you like it if you're an oscar winning actor with some great movies under your belt and the press and the public only want to talk about a small role you played at the end of your career. The Star Wars effect has branded almost everyone associated with the project except Harrison Ford, mainly because he was in some great movies AFTER Star Wars, so to the fans he's not just Han Solo. But Alec made a lot of great movies BEFORE Star Wars, and not kid movies (lets be real SW IS a kid's movie)so he's forever Obi-Wan. I'd be pissed too.
He kind of walked that fine line between the 'old school' productions where movies were good stories acted out well and today's big-ass-hyped-blow-stuff-up productions. SW did change the the movie industry, not through any fault of its own, but because studios realised that theres big money in fanatic moviegoers.
Personally, I have little respect for people who just love one thing out of a huge genre. SW fanatics and Trekkies should go get a library card.
it would surely be shot down in flames. This is a government that is currently doing its best to keep people away from encryption and putting its intelligence agencies plugged in to every wire they can find.
In a more progressive government it would be a very intersting experiment, but here and now it would only give politicians less control over the voting process. We can't even register online right now yet it would be relativly simple to set that up.
What an optimistic view. Get out and vote! How I wish it was true, like any one candidate won't continue to disapoint you in his/her 2/4 years in office. Your choices are:
1. The right wing religious gun nuts!
2. The liberal fascists!
Please forget about emailing your congressperson, the center for democracy and technology did a little experiment and found 90+% of these emails go unread. Its just a nice way of saying "Hey I'm hip and on the web."
The best you can hope for is voting for what SEEMS to be the least of 2 evils and calling your congressman when they're fucking up. Phone calls and letters they tend to listen to, in the way that letters make big piles and phones make ringing noise - hard to ignore.
So please spare me this simple minded "Lets go vote, guys" solution.
Another real concern of mine is that the ratings system in this country will always be completely afraid of anything with sexual content. You can cut off a breast but you'll get a worse rating if you show someone kissing one. So we get the thumbs up on all this violent badly written trash and anything with any merit is suddenly in a ratings level where the producers will lose money from its bad stigma.
You guys really think a rating does nothing? It has a severe economical affect, especially in movies. If you can conform to the R rating, the studio wont back you up and suddenly you have a real form of censorship. Look at the damnable Walmart, anything that doesn't contain X amount of southern hospitality is banned.
The overly-religious have such a stronghold on this country its not even funny anymore.
Unisys has no reason to go straight after users/consumers for their inability to control their patents. Why aren't they going after developers? One reason. Money!!!!!! Imagine all these companies they can milk because of ignorance to patents. Sorry Unisys, you're still evil.
Save your sanctimonius working class tragedy for people who are easily moved. Any secretary worth her salt knows when to hold down the delete key and let it fly. Right now I'm picturing her running to her boss with the 20+ mail order ads they get every hour and somewhere a slashdot Indian is crying.
Don't bother guys, I just got my patent for E=mc2. I can now legally control all nuclear power and have a say when someone wants to detonate a nuke. Thanks for the inspiration UNISYS!!!!!
Like many others I'm curious why/. is suddenly news? The article *seems* like the kind you'd pay to have publish to push your product - fluff. Heh, not that I'm suggesting Rob is paying Wired for this crap. Wired should be paying each of us for all that extra traffic/attention for absolutly NOTHING. No 'reliable' or 'informed' opinions there.
When has a paragraph pointing to an article or web page considered journalism? If anyone here is guilty of the crime of being a journalist its the infinite army of posters. Scary, I know.
Tech journalists float somewhere between lawyers who have been on TV and MTV VJ's on the great ladder of integrity. They are the inside jokes among anyone who actually has read the manual for what they're writing about.
Biased? Maybe. Slashdot doesn't have to sell ad space to Microsoft, thus they can speak their minds. Bill as borg too much? Its called humor, martian, we take pleasure in it.
Enough of the "I have to be on the net x hours a day, its my job!"
We all know something is an addiction when it interferes with you responsibilities. Work is your duty, chill.
Though there weren't any details, I'm sure they tried to use an average user, who is usually in an AOL chat room. That's a terrible waste of 4 hours, but I doubt its an addiction. Most people's existance is a complete waste, let em pretend they're lesbians named Brynn for a while.
As others have stated before, assuming that 50/50 will make everything alrightfor men and women is simply... stupid. People, be it geeks or jocks, are each socialized to be part of their gender culture. Its happened before and it'll happen again. Females will break into whatever field they like. Keep your "men are made for this, women are made for that" argument for the 19th century. Putting out a notice that this or that school is 'safe' for females is a nice gesture, but essentially meaningless. If there isn't a market to attract in the first place why bother? Proposals to somehow make women love tech in high school sounds a lot like mind control to me. "Yes, we will mold them at an early age." Sorry, everyone has the right to be typical - look in the mirror geeks. Not that I'm pulling a half assed psuedo-social commentary on WHY men do this and women do this. If you could explain all the effects on culture for each gender you probably would have better things to do than post here. The worst part is how most posts end with "Now I'm gonna get some." Sad guys, really sad.
First off, great movies are great stories. The story here is almost non-existant and very unsatisfying as presented in a movie. Heck, in any form this story is pretty crappy. Imagine reading a novel with the same content.
Katz knows nothing about the number of independant films that are constantly being made. Every so often this happens and critics sing its praises and warn hollywood about new up and comers. Remember Bottlerocket?
BWP will probably do absolutly nothing to the industry except give new filmmakers a little false hope.
Why does the yuppie-orientated press keep making the assumption that if something critical isn't controled by a large corporation with a team of lawyers its anarchistic and dangerous? I'd rather have a team of volunteers running the show than the propietary crap they seem to love.
but not in the way you think. Its not the US it was the UN a little bit ago. Some bureucrats without anything else to do wrote up a little paper on how a penny an email would solve world hunger or some other BS. It's nothing more than a way for the UN to stuff its pockets imho. If this was seriously proposed in congress I'm sure they'd just add a percentage tax to net access like they do to cigs and booze regardless of how much email your little fingers can type out.
So far Lifehouse has been broken up onto Who are You, Who's Next, and Psychoderelict. If you listen to Psychoderelict you'll hear songs mentioning the grid. Pete must have released 6 or 7 songs from his Lifehouse project leaving, what, 2 or 3 left?
Chinese Eyes is on CD, the trick is finding cause I'm sure its out of print.
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I don't just want to crash your system I want to destroy it. Oh, I'm not limiting myself to PCs, I need an EMP gun to get cell phones, cell towers, and most importantly assholes with giant subwoofers in their cars. Snoop, your days are numbered!
Umm... HES DEAD. This is an ancient interview.
gives Star Wars its much deserved criticisms. IMO, he's a lot like Pete Townshend talking about the successes and failures of The Who.
How would you like it if you're an oscar winning actor with some great movies under your belt and the press and the public only want to talk about a small role you played at the end of your career. The Star Wars effect has branded almost everyone associated with the project except Harrison Ford, mainly because he was in some great movies AFTER Star Wars, so to the fans he's not just Han Solo. But Alec made a lot of great movies BEFORE Star Wars, and not kid movies (lets be real SW IS a kid's movie)so he's forever Obi-Wan. I'd be pissed too.
He kind of walked that fine line between the 'old school' productions where movies were good stories acted out well and today's big-ass-hyped-blow-stuff-up productions. SW did change the the movie industry, not through any fault of its own, but because studios realised that theres big money in fanatic moviegoers.
Personally, I have little respect for people who just love one thing out of a huge genre. SW fanatics and Trekkies should go get a library card.
a government that is currently doing its best to
keep people away from encryption and putting its intelligence agencies plugged in to every wire they can find.
In a more progressive government it would be a very intersting experiment, but here and now it would only give politicians less control over the voting process. We can't even register online right now yet it would be relativly simple to set that up.
This is still Amerika.
wish it was true, like any one candidate won't continue to disapoint you in his/her 2/4 years in office. Your choices are:
1. The right wing religious gun nuts!
2. The liberal fascists!
Please forget about emailing your congressperson, the center for democracy and technology did a little experiment and found 90+% of these emails go unread. Its just a nice way of saying "Hey I'm hip and on the web."
The best you can hope for is voting for what SEEMS to be the least of 2 evils and calling your congressman when they're fucking up. Phone calls and letters they tend to listen to, in the way that letters make big piles and phones make ringing noise - hard to ignore.
So please spare me this simple minded "Lets go vote, guys" solution.
Another real concern of mine is that the ratings system in this country will always be completely afraid of anything with sexual content. You can cut off a breast but you'll get a worse rating if you show someone kissing one. So we get the thumbs up on all this violent badly written trash and anything with any merit is suddenly in a ratings level where the producers will lose money from its bad stigma.
You guys really think a rating does nothing? It has a severe economical affect, especially in movies. If you can conform to the R rating, the studio wont back you up and suddenly you have a real form of censorship. Look at the damnable Walmart, anything that doesn't contain X amount of southern hospitality is banned.
The overly-religious have such a stronghold on this country its not even funny anymore.
Unisys has no reason to go straight after
users/consumers for their inability to control their patents. Why aren't they going after developers? One reason. Money!!!!!! Imagine all these companies they can milk because of ignorance to patents. Sorry Unisys, you're still evil.
Save your sanctimonius working class tragedy for people who are easily moved. Any secretary worth her salt knows when to hold down the delete key and let it fly. Right now I'm picturing her running to her boss with the 20+ mail order ads they get every hour and somewhere a slashdot Indian is crying.
When the revolution comes I'll be the guy with the assault rifle aiming for ties!
ObMotto: I'll have 'patent this!' written on my helmet.
Don't bother guys, I just got my patent for E=mc2. I can now legally control all nuclear power and have a say when someone wants to detonate a nuke. Thanks for the inspiration UNISYS!!!!!
Like many others I'm curious why /. is suddenly news? The article *seems* like the kind you'd pay to have publish to push your product - fluff. Heh, not that I'm suggesting Rob is paying Wired for this crap. Wired should be paying each of us for all that extra traffic/attention for absolutly NOTHING. No 'reliable' or 'informed' opinions there.
When has a paragraph pointing to an article or web page considered journalism? If anyone here is guilty of the crime of being a journalist its the infinite army of posters. Scary, I know.
Tech journalists float somewhere between lawyers who have been on TV and MTV VJ's on the great ladder of integrity. They are the inside jokes among anyone who actually has read the manual for what they're writing about.
Biased? Maybe. Slashdot doesn't have to sell ad space to Microsoft, thus they can speak their minds. Bill as borg too much? Its called humor, martian, we take pleasure in it.
For all we know he has a taste for bugs and this may well be a way for him to get a decent meal in during working hours.
Soon we'll be seeing plenty of these, "I'll have sex with a minor if this doesn't get 100% of the market!"
If they're looking for addiction, give it to
them. About time they learned:
1. No one cares about such studies, only paranoid parents who are terribly busy trying to get smut removed from the net. Go family values!
2. Unless you're paying money you can't really expect good data. Its the internet, haven of liars and assholes.
3. How about a report on how writing up addicted to the internet surveys is itself an addiction.
Enough of the "I have to be on the net x hours a day, its my job!"
We all know something is an addiction when it interferes with you responsibilities. Work is your duty, chill.
Though there weren't any details, I'm sure they tried to use an average user, who is usually in an AOL chat room. That's a terrible waste of 4 hours, but I doubt its an addiction. Most people's existance is a complete waste, let em pretend they're lesbians named Brynn for a while.
If it wasn't this it would be network TV.
As others have stated before, assuming that 50/50 will make everything alrightfor men and women is simply... stupid. People, be it geeks or jocks, are each socialized to be part of their gender culture.
Its happened before and it'll happen again. Females will break into whatever field they like. Keep your "men are made for this, women are made for that" argument for the 19th century.
Putting out a notice that this or that school is 'safe' for females is a nice gesture, but essentially meaningless. If there isn't a market to attract in the first place why bother?
Proposals to somehow make women love tech in high school sounds a lot like mind control to me.
"Yes, we will mold them at an early age." Sorry, everyone has the right to be typical - look in the mirror geeks.
Not that I'm pulling a half assed psuedo-social commentary on WHY men do this and women do this. If you could explain all the effects on culture for each gender you probably would have better things to do than post here.
The worst part is how most posts end with "Now I'm gonna get some." Sad guys, really sad.
Katz knows nothing about the number of independant films that are constantly being made. Every so often this happens and critics sing its praises and warn hollywood about new up and comers. Remember Bottlerocket?
BWP will probably do absolutly nothing to the industry except give new filmmakers a little false hope.
I'm sick of these AI experiments that pop up now and again. They simply do what they're programmed to do. Tamagotchi's running on pentiums.
Yawn..........
Why does the yuppie-orientated press keep making
the assumption that if something critical isn't
controled by a large corporation with a team of lawyers its anarchistic and dangerous? I'd rather have a team of volunteers running the show than the propietary crap they seem to love.
Well it was MSNBC...
Whats the use of a clear case if you don't have a
clear harddrive. That would look sweet.
but not in the way you think. Its not the US it
was the UN a little bit ago. Some bureucrats without anything else to do wrote up a little paper on how a penny an email would solve world hunger or some other BS. It's nothing more than a way for the UN to stuff its pockets imho.
If this was seriously proposed in congress I'm sure they'd just add a percentage tax to net access like they do to cigs and booze regardless of how much email your little fingers can type out.
Most nerds I know aren't able to handle that much drugs and booze. T'ain't gonna happen.
Wow, they must be serious is they can gather
together all 53 states! Any organization with a working time machine is something to be feared.
*Saving up to buy their stock!*
So far Lifehouse has been broken up onto Who are You, Who's Next, and Psychoderelict. If you listen to Psychoderelict you'll hear songs mentioning the grid. Pete must have released 6 or 7 songs from his Lifehouse project leaving, what, 2 or 3 left?
Chinese Eyes is on CD, the trick is finding cause I'm sure its out of print.
I'm sitting here slack-jawed and confused. Bob Packwood is still alive and lobbying for net access? Less restrictions = more porn. Good work Bob!