Why can't we just start our own damn channel? We have the money, we have the technical skill, we have the community here at slashdot and other sites. All we need to do is make a site, gather up all the communities like slashdot, all the gaming communities, etc and then spend months hyping up the launch of the new network. If properly hyped just like the PS2 or Longhorn, it can work.
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The Linux show would be a good start. Also a show about hacking, maybe a gaming based show, and then some entertaining shows like martin sargents unscrewe d or some anime stuff
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I'd pay for a subscription to the channel if you can get the talent that was just fired from TechTV to be the hosts.
This is not really a matter of money, most of us would pay for this. Also we are geeks so we have money, advertisers should want this channel
How can we start a new tech channel?
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If all of the rich geek techtv fans were to pool their money and start a new channel then it wouldnt be a problem would it?
I'm assuming all thats needed is a business plan, donations, etc
When will we have SlashdotTV?
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That's a problem, there is so much talent and brainpower being wasted because we can't even come up with a way to feed people in in the third world, let alone educate them to the extent that they can exploit their abilities.
Why do you assume we must feed them? Why do you assume they cannot educate themselves? Why won't we do business with companies from the third world?
There is enough food to feed every person in the world and food is pretty much free so anyone in the third world could eat yet somehow they cannot afford food because the jobs in the third world don't pay them enough money. The problem is not that they cannot do our work, look at India. The problem is that we don't pay them a fair amount of money and most of the idea based jobs will not be given to the third world because they are too profitable.
I can't wait for CEOs and Directors to be outsourced along with the programmers and sys admins. Why won't it happen?
The same people who say we have to compete with workers in the third world. Capitalism is all about competition, thats the core and soul of capitalism. Unless we are going to switch to communism overnight, what else are we supposed to do besides compete?
Humans are allowed to replace humans because at least the human species always comes out on top.
What the hell are they supposed to do? Don't you think they would be happy now that they can actually get a job elsewhere that makes use of their unique human abilities, like creativity for instance? We *do* have a shortage of innovators and thinkers in this world, after all. Why aren't there more people filling those positions? Well, because they are needed for dumping garbage bags in a truck. A waste of human talent, if you ask me. Bottom line, humans should be doing what humans are good at, *not* cutting lawns or picking up garbage bags.
You act as if everyone is designed to be creative. Most humans arent creative. Most arent smart enough to come up with some revolutionary new idea. But ok lets assume your idea is possible, if it were then why arent we tapping the people in the third world for "ideas" if theres truely a shortage? Theres billions of people who could come up with ideas but instead they are just being allowed to starve to death.
- there is always room to innovate, create, and if anything, create better robots.
Create better Robots? Yes we all have that PHD from MIT. You ignore my arguement on how as the jobs become more complex that the natural capabilities of most people will not be enough to do the job.
For your world to ever exist, we'd have to change the education system and make the focus of education on creative thinking instead of memorization. We aren't trying to make the masses creative so you are nt convincing me that theres a shortage of creative people. Most creative people want to limit the number of creative people so that their job remains important and they continue to get high pay.
Musicians, Actors, CEOs, etc don't want any competition else they'd end up like the average man constantly being replaced. Assuming we did do this we still would only pick the most creative and this may require a number of skills, such as using computers to increase your creativity. 1
Why are robots needed for space travel when we have all these humans in the third world who we could send to space? We have sent humans to the moon and could do it again easily.
We're going to need robots to make it happen. All the laborers are just going to have to become smarter than the robots. It's called progress.
You and I both know progress takes centuries if not longer. Evolution does not happen overnight, it takes thousands or millions of years. We have not evolved much since Roman times which explains why we keep making the same mistakes we made back then, getting into wars and making so called "human" mistakes which are then excused or ignored due to "human nature". Until we correct human nature, your utopia is as impossible as the communist utopia which would be required for machines to co-exist with man.
So forget about progress and worry about survival.
Do you hunt your own food? Did you build your own computer? When you go to malls or resturants do you make your own meals or do everything yourself? Humans are still useful however human labor is a lot less useful than it were only 20 years ago. Robots/Machines decrease the value of HUMAN LABOR. Humans decrease the value of labor as well but at least the job is going to the better human.
I work tech services... someone else could do my job I have lots of friends... someone could fill my place for each of them I pay rent... someone else could live here I have 2 cats... someone else could feed and care for them
Better to be replaced by superior humans than to be replaced by a superior machine. When replaced by humans then at least a human benefits.
Automation actually reduces jobs and eventually the reduction of jobs = a major major problem.
Yes at first the reduction of jobs will be good due to increased productivity, this happened with the computer industry in the USA, but after a point the productivity stops increasing while the jobs continue to decrease. The need for unskilled labor will continue to decrease until the majority of people in the world simply won't be as qualified as the machines are. What the hell are service workers supposed to do once they are told the robot can do their job perfectly? What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them? I don't see how robots is good, this would be equal to China working hard to increase its population.
Population is already out of control and needs to be vastly decreased simply because theres not enough jobs for the 6 billion people currently on the earth. Computers will only make us compete harder for fewer jobs. To top this all off, we will be paid less.
First I never said capitalism is good. What I'm saying is capitalism and robots can not co-exist. Humans become absolutely useless once robots become efficient. Yes at first robots increase jobs and productivity, but soon the knowledge and intelligence level required to continue to program/repair/ or stay above the robots will become too much for the average human to handle.
Can we all have A PHD from MIT/Harvard/Yale/etc? Competition with humans in the third world is enough, and the population keeps increasing every year meaning competition keeps increasing. How the hell are we supposed to compete with each other as 6 billion humans along with the machines?
Say we do live in your dream world of high tech utopia filled with robots and nanobots all over the place. What exactly will we humans be good for? Do you have a PHD from MIT? If not you won't be very useful at all once robots learn to repair, upgrade and program themselves.
I want robots to be as stupid as insects forever, this way we will all have jobs as programmers at least. The day robots can learn is the day humans go exstinct. There is simply no way for us to compete with robots that can learn.
This is the worst thing we could do as humans. IF you want society to fall apart simply make the majority of humans useless. I mean if Robots can do what the average human could do, what the hell is the average human useful for? I guess its time to start slaughtering and killing about 6 billion useless people so we have space for these robots. Don't you agree?
If robots do everything, what are we humans useful for?
Not only will we get to live pointless lives from a functional point ofview, but we will also get to starve to death unless we can do a job robots can't do. Why do we want to compete with robots?!
Why is this a good thing? I think robots could be the end of society and capitalism as we know it. Why is it a good thing to automate tasks when the world is currently over populated and human labor already is in infinite supply? It's suicide to give jobs to robots which could be given to humans. I think automation should be outlawed.
Currently Mozilla is the most powerful browing suite on earth. Problem is people don't care about all those features, we just want speed. So developers what do you plan to do to make XUL faster? How do you plan to reduce the memory footprint? How about reducing CPU load? What about actually speeding up the rendering of websites ?
And if you are going to add new features, try intergrating bit torrent into mozilla since it seems to be the new default download format why the hell are you upgrading FTP?
I'm not going to defend pedophiles. The reason it's wrong to have sex with children should be obvious.
1. You can physically injure them for obvious reasons.
2. They may not be emotionally prepared.(This can cause emotional injuries)
3. You are older and manipulating them into having sex with you is wrong.
Now those are the main 3 reasons, in rare situations where its legal and normal in other countries for children to marry each other or for say young adults to marry teenagers, thats a different situation than kiddie porn as is defined in most peoples minds (children being raped by adults)
Despite what you might believe, most children (I'm not talking teenagers here) aren't physically or emotionally ready for sexual intercourse.
As far as the rest of your comment goes, sure theres people who are attracted to kids, I don't care about those people. Arrest the people who abuse kids.
Perhaps what is needed is a clear definition of what child abuse is, and a way to define a child abusing pedophile from just a normal person who has some odd fetish.
People with some odd fetish should watch japanese hentai porn or the regular legal teen porn.
I'm not sure why virtual child porn was outlawed, but i'd recommend that even. What I do not recommend is abusing children.
While child porn in itself is not bad, the abuse is bad. Once the abuse has occured, people exchanging pictures of it or movies of it generally has nothing to do with it.
The person who put these pictures on the internet should go to jail, the person who did the abuse should be punished, however the people who just SEE the abuse being arrested and put in jail is a bit pointless.
Arresting anyone who has some illegal picture on their computer in my opinion is just pointless, there could be millions of people who have child porn and you simply cannot arrest them all.
In my opinion people can have whatever fantasies they want, and in my opinion virtual child porn should be made legal. I think the fact that virtual child porn is illegal might actually cause more children to be harmed due to increased demand. I don't like the idea of censorship even though I'm not into kiddie porn. I'm against children being hurt and I do think pedophiles should be locked up.
Censorship does nothing to prevent children from being hurt.
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Why can't we just start our own damn channel? We have the money, we have the technical skill, we have the community here at slashdot and other sites. All we need to do is make a site, gather up all the communities like slashdot, all the gaming communities, etc and then spend months hyping up the launch of the new network. If properly hyped just like the PS2 or Longhorn, it can work.
The Linux show would be a good start. Also a show about hacking, maybe a gaming based show, and then some entertaining shows like martin sargents unscrewe d or some anime stuff
I'd pay for a subscription to the channel if you can get the talent that was just fired from TechTV to be the hosts. This is not really a matter of money, most of us would pay for this. Also we are geeks so we have money, advertisers should want this channel
If all of the rich geek techtv fans were to pool their money and start a new channel then it wouldnt be a problem would it? I'm assuming all thats needed is a business plan, donations, etc
What can we replace TechTV with?
Perhaps we should boycott direct TV?
In communism you may not have a use but to survive in a capitalist world you must be useful to the economy or you die.
That's a problem, there is so much talent and brainpower being wasted because we can't even come up with a way to feed people in in the third world, let alone educate them to the extent that they can exploit their abilities.
Why do you assume we must feed them? Why do you assume they cannot educate themselves? Why won't we do business with companies from the third world?
There is enough food to feed every person in the world and food is pretty much free so anyone in the third world could eat yet somehow they cannot afford food because the jobs in the third world don't pay them enough money. The problem is not that they cannot do our work, look at India. The problem is that we don't pay them a fair amount of money and most of the idea based jobs will not be given to the third world because they are too profitable.
I can't wait for CEOs and Directors to be outsourced along with the programmers and sys admins. Why won't it happen?
Who said we have to compete with the robots?
The same people who say we have to compete with workers in the third world. Capitalism is all about competition, thats the core and soul of capitalism. Unless we are going to switch to communism overnight, what else are we supposed to do besides compete?
Humans are allowed to replace humans because at least the human species always comes out on top.
What the hell are they supposed to do? Don't you think they would be happy now that they can actually get a job elsewhere that makes use of their unique human abilities, like creativity for instance? We *do* have a shortage of innovators and thinkers in this world, after all. Why aren't there more people filling those positions? Well, because they are needed for dumping garbage bags in a truck. A waste of human talent, if you ask me. Bottom line, humans should be doing what humans are good at, *not* cutting lawns or picking up garbage bags.
You act as if everyone is designed to be creative. Most humans arent creative. Most arent smart enough to come up with some revolutionary new idea. But ok lets assume your idea is possible, if it were then why arent we tapping the people in the third world for "ideas" if theres truely a shortage? Theres billions of people who could come up with ideas but instead they are just being allowed to starve to death.
- there is always room to innovate, create, and if anything, create better robots.
Create better Robots? Yes we all have that PHD from MIT. You ignore my arguement on how as the jobs become more complex that the natural capabilities of most people will not be enough to do the job.
For your world to ever exist, we'd have to change the education system and make the focus of education on creative thinking instead of memorization. We aren't trying to make the masses creative so you are nt convincing me that theres a shortage of creative people. Most creative people want to limit the number of creative people so that their job remains important and they continue to get high pay.
Musicians, Actors, CEOs, etc don't want any competition else they'd end up like the average man constantly being replaced. Assuming we did do this we still would only pick the most creative and this may require a number of skills, such as using computers to increase your creativity.
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Why are robots needed for space travel when we have all these humans in the third world who we could send to space? We have sent humans to the moon and could do it again easily.
We're going to need robots to make it happen. All the laborers are just going to have to become smarter than the robots. It's called progress.
You and I both know progress takes centuries if not longer. Evolution does not happen overnight, it takes thousands or millions of years. We have not evolved much since Roman times which explains why we keep making the same mistakes we made back then, getting into wars and making so called "human" mistakes which are then excused or ignored due to "human nature". Until we correct human nature, your utopia is as impossible as the communist utopia which would be required for machines to co-exist with man.
So forget about progress and worry about survival.
What exactly are we humans good for now?
Do you hunt your own food? Did you build your own computer? When you go to malls or resturants do you make your own meals or do everything yourself? Humans are still useful however human labor is a lot less useful than it were only 20 years ago. Robots/Machines decrease the value of HUMAN LABOR. Humans decrease the value of labor as well but at least the job is going to the better human.
I work tech services... someone else could do my job
I have lots of friends... someone could fill my place for each of them
I pay rent... someone else could live here
I have 2 cats... someone else could feed and care for them
Better to be replaced by superior humans than to be replaced by a superior machine. When replaced by humans then at least a human benefits.
Automation actually reduces jobs and eventually the reduction of jobs = a major major problem.
Yes at first the reduction of jobs will be good due to increased productivity, this happened with the computer industry in the USA, but after a point the productivity stops increasing while the jobs continue to decrease. The need for unskilled labor will continue to decrease until the majority of people in the world simply won't be as qualified as the machines are. What the hell are service workers supposed to do once they are told the robot can do their job perfectly? What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them? I don't see how robots is good, this would be equal to China working hard to increase its population.
Population is already out of control and needs to be vastly decreased simply because theres not enough jobs for the 6 billion people currently on the earth. Computers will only make us compete harder for fewer jobs. To top this all off, we will be paid less.
First I never said capitalism is good. What I'm saying is capitalism and robots can not co-exist. Humans become absolutely useless once robots become efficient. Yes at first robots increase jobs and productivity, but soon the knowledge and intelligence level required to continue to program/repair/ or stay above the robots will become too much for the average human to handle.
Can we all have A PHD from MIT/Harvard/Yale/etc? Competition with humans in the third world is enough, and the population keeps increasing every year meaning competition keeps increasing. How the hell are we supposed to compete with each other as 6 billion humans along with the machines?
Say we do live in your dream world of high tech utopia filled with robots and nanobots all over the place. What exactly will we humans be good for? Do you have a PHD from MIT? If not you won't be very useful at all once robots learn to repair, upgrade and program themselves.
I want robots to be as stupid as insects forever, this way we will all have jobs as programmers at least. The day robots can learn is the day humans go exstinct. There is simply no way for us to compete with robots that can learn.
This is the worst thing we could do as humans. IF you want society to fall apart simply make the majority of humans useless. I mean if Robots can do what the average human could do, what the hell is the average human useful for? I guess its time to start slaughtering and killing about 6 billion useless people so we have space for these robots. Don't you agree?
If robots do everything, what are we humans useful for?
Not only will we get to live pointless lives from a functional point ofview, but we will also get to starve to death unless we can do a job robots can't do. Why do we want to compete with robots?!
Why is this a good thing? I think robots could be the end of society and capitalism as we know it. Why is it a good thing to automate tasks when the world is currently over populated and human labor already is in infinite supply? It's suicide to give jobs to robots which could be given to humans. I think automation should be outlawed.
Netscape and IE did embed a media player.
hahahahaha Thats the only response i can give to this post. Keep being funny
Mozilla needs more speed and less power.
Currently Mozilla is the most powerful browing suite on earth. Problem is people don't care about all those features, we just want speed. So developers what do you plan to do to make XUL faster? How do you plan to reduce the memory footprint? How about reducing CPU load? What about actually speeding up the rendering of websites ?
And if you are going to add new features, try intergrating bit torrent into mozilla since it seems to be the new default download format why the hell are you upgrading FTP?
Thats just it. Banning the pictures will do nothing to end child molestation, its just hiding it.
Wow, great solution!
I'm not going to defend pedophiles. The reason it's wrong to have sex with children should be obvious.
1. You can physically injure them for obvious reasons.
2. They may not be emotionally prepared.(This can cause emotional injuries)
3. You are older and manipulating them into having sex with you is wrong.
Now those are the main 3 reasons, in rare situations where its legal and normal in other countries for children to marry each other or for say young adults to marry teenagers, thats a different situation than kiddie porn as is defined in most peoples minds (children being raped by adults)
Despite what you might believe, most children (I'm not talking teenagers here) aren't physically or emotionally ready for sexual intercourse.
As far as the rest of your comment goes, sure theres people who are attracted to kids, I don't care about those people. Arrest the people who abuse kids.
Perhaps what is needed is a clear definition of what child abuse is, and a way to define a child abusing pedophile from just a normal person who has some odd fetish.
People with some odd fetish should watch japanese hentai porn or the regular legal teen porn.
I'm not sure why virtual child porn was outlawed, but i'd recommend that even. What I do not recommend is abusing children.
While child porn in itself is not bad, the abuse is bad. Once the abuse has occured, people exchanging pictures of it or movies of it generally has nothing to do with it.
The person who put these pictures on the internet should go to jail, the person who did the abuse should be punished, however the people who just SEE the abuse being arrested and put in jail is a bit pointless.
Arresting anyone who has some illegal picture on their computer in my opinion is just pointless, there could be millions of people who have child porn and you simply cannot arrest them all.
In my opinion people can have whatever fantasies they want, and in my opinion virtual child porn should be made legal. I think the fact that virtual child porn is illegal might actually cause more children to be harmed due to increased demand. I don't like the idea of censorship even though I'm not into kiddie porn. I'm against children being hurt and I do think pedophiles should be locked up.
Censorship does nothing to prevent children from being hurt.