Pretty soon we'll games where you gotta score some bot growth hormone or other anabolic steroid to get pumped up, bot tae-kwan-do classes. My bot is a black belt!
Actually.... that's a pretty good idea. A MMORPG where you play a thug, but firearms are outlawed or unavailable. Maybe post-apocolypse. You use your controller like a fighting game, and you pick up chains and bats and lead pipes, and maybe a bonus item from a quest is a chainsaw. Instead of the keystroke attack like all ORPG are now, you'd need a fighting game level of fidelity. You'd need really, really low latencies to make it work, it'd have to have the fighting fidelity of something like Tekken. And you could wrestle people to the ground and gang beat (or rape) them. Steroids and other juice made you stronger. Bennies to stay online for more than 20 hours, etc.
Hillary would hate it, you'd have to host it offshore. But I guarantee it would be a massive, massive hit.
We've experienced a number of application crashes since we began playing with Solaris 10, but none capable of pulling the kernel down with it. On the other hand, we've had sloppy JavaScripts immobilize totally, and at times actually re-boot, our Linux box (especially with 2.4.x series kernels); we've seen X oddities do the same, and have experienced several wacky incidents using Microsoft bugware with Wine that required a hard reset. While we haven't taken a systematic approach to blowing up our Solaris 10 installations, one gets the impression of a pretty bulletproof kernel and shell.
That's basically it. The article goes on to basically say driver support sucks and it was kind of a pain to configure, make sure to use the Xorg server and app support is ok. But that kernel, rock solid! Without really mentioning what is happening in 2.6 kernel development or how that argument extends outward toward a better development platform overall.
It's a lost cause, there can only be one. Read all four pages of the article, and ask yourself... would I be interested in creating a disk partition or two and running Open Solaris just to see? I did... and the answer was no... I'd rather spend my time working on my Debian system.
It's comments like that which keep the ACLU and EFF hard at work. Stifle that free speech, it's intended to harm Bush! Cindy Sheehan should be jailed, she means to harm the morale of the troops! She's a traitor!
Take your ignorant "with us or against us" mentality and go peddle flyers for Katherine Harris or something. Your time is better spent trying to scare senior citizens into thinking Social Security needs reform, not being ignorant on Slashdot.
He didn't claim he was a repairman. He just said when he uses another person's box. If he isn't using the machine under the pretense of fixing it, then what is his ethical duty? This is like opening somebody's medicine cabinet when you use their bathroom, to see how many pain killers they swig.
So, you may fire him (as you should), but that's not what we are talking about.
This gives you an idea of just how fine a line there is between civilization and complete anarchy. Imagine a fuel crisis much worse than the Carter era, where only a select few can have access to gas each week. Or food shortages. Or a mass bio-hazard.
Better yet, the bird flu. A mass epidemic. Imagine the scene at hospitals. This is why crisis management and homeland security dollars are important - too bad they are being treated by politicians as just another thing to pork barrel. We spend money buying firefighters in Wyoming HazMat suits and trucks - but a nuke in NYC would be catch us completely un prepared.
I always enjoy these little reminders of how close the American public is to hysteria.
The commentator on BBC made an interesting observation. It's better at this point to scrap the shuttle and use the Russian Soyuz program to re-supply the ISS, and move men up and down. We need a few more shuttle flights to complete the work on the ISS, and then we can move to Soyuz. A 40 year space program works better than a 30 year old one does. Thank god the cold war is over, huh?
Steinbrenner has already optioned the contract on the robot for 2008. Apparently, he likes it because you can scream at it all day long and it doesn't get upset.
Violent crime is down in the United States for primarily one reason. Abortion. Since Roe, there have been approximately 38 million abortions in the United States. That's 38 million people who would have probably had less than ideal circumstances in which to grow up, and as a result - crime is down.
There is no correlation with watching the act of violence and being violent. Interactivity in video games has not been studied closely enough to see if it somehow drops the inhibitions to commit real violence, a much better predictor of that is violence against animals.
And before I get flamed, let me provide my evidence. Steven Levitt's work at the University of Chicago showing the DIRECT causality of abortion rates and drops in crime.
Hmmm. That's a very cogent argument. I will think about it. I don't think Wiki is really analogous to an OSS code project. And it's not truly collaborative, it mimics true collaboration but is really just like a magazine that solicits articles and publishes some without reimbursement and pays others for submissions.
But I think you may be right overall, on the slippery slope. Instead it would have to be soliciting and not retroactive, you'd be willing to pay Stephen Hawking to do an edit on the Quantu Physics entry, you'd get pictures from photographers who can't make any money selling their freelance stuff to National Geographic any more. Have to think how it would work, but I'm not sure it'd be as destructive as you think it would.
If Ebay went offline tomorrow, the net effect to mandkind would be nil. Yahoo auctions, all kinds of things have sprung up that are clones.
Wiki is absolutely one of a kind, if it was destroyed it could not be replaced easily, it would take years. It's approaching the Library of Congress in the United States in size.
Ebay and Wikipedia. I thought neither of them had a chance in hell to work. Ebay was an intermediary broker and I figured would go down in flames from bogus sales, and I thought Wiki would be flooded with ass clowns who wrote a lot of silly joke pages.
I was wrong about both of them. Of the two, Wiki is an actual valuable contribution to mankind. The Wiki project, like the Gutenberg project, is about the proliferation of knowledge. It needs creative input from the whole net community in order to thrive, but as it gains status it becomes a bigger target for systematic abuse. I think this move is sound, Encyclopedia Brittanica and the World Book are bereft after the Internet. What Wiki needs is some sort of incentive system. If Gates wanted to buy some good will, he should give a billion or so to the WIki crew (despite the relationship with Google) and have the editors pay net citizens with Paypal for especially valuable work, or really excellent photos, etc. That is the next step in the evolution of the online knowledge center.
Panama is THE haven for hiding assets. If you embezzeled a shitload of cash from your corporation and need to disappear to a third world country, it's guys like these who can help you out. Isabella from shes.flightrisk.org used them to vanish somewhere having absconded over $100M from her family.
These crazy Panamanian lawyers recommend Hushmail. Used by 4 out 5 international criminals who chew gum. Let's just put it this way... if you wanted to contact a journalist with a blow the roof off the government leak, you'd use Hushmail. The United States Feds wants to get it's hands on Hushmail and cannot. It's been tested in international court. You start sending email to a journalist inbox from Hushmail and they will not find you. Mark Felt would use Hushmail.
This is about Hillary Clinton. Like her or hate her, I am not taking sides in that one. But this is part of her campaign to move to the center. She needs to take on issues of morality, of "saving the children", of making sure she's tough on smut. I'm not sure why, exactly, it may have to do with the fact that the GOP released a smear book about her insinuating she is, and always has been, a lesbian.
Either way, it's a calculated ploy, a checkmark on an agenda designed to set up her run in 2008. She has looked at the numbers, and studied very carefully why Kerry lost, and is not going to make those mistakes. As a woman, she dares not divorce Bill, that was a decision made long ago, even though she loathes him. She needs to prepare her armor against the religious right who will tell her that she is not family values based, not somebody "right" for America. A female presidential candiate has a whole suite of attacks open that don't exist for men. Next up will probably something on terrorism or foreign policy based. Being from New York that makes sense, although she can't touch the insane distrubution of homeland security money, she needs to win states like Colorado and Wyoming, who get "throw away" money.
Nice analogy. Makes Linux sound like it's made out of glass. Oh, don't touch it!
It's using the myriad of custom distributions against it. There are Linux distros for forensics, for security, for graphics, for portability, for a myriad of specialties. These distros are usually booted from CDROM, etc. They have nothing to do with an average workstation distrubution installation of Linux, which has perfectly capable package management using apt-get or rpm. Dependency checking is part and parcel of every decent installation shell. Across a boggling array of packages for every conceiveable app.
Microsoft is just working the edges, trying to make the somewhat busy rate of new distros into a negative. It's true, I just got the LAST Fedora Core in when the next one comes out. But it's hardly orphaned, is it? apt-get works just fine for something I may want to add.
Microsoft's war strategy is to drive major Linux distrubutions to being more static, to stop re-releasing new distro updates at such a frenetic rate. They can't compete in this area, it's too costly for them to do major Service Packs all the time.
What is the argument for bias in second life? The foundation of the engine, how it works, and what the "world" is seems to be about nothing more than scaffolding holding together whatever the users build. It has NO bias, unless the scarcity of resources in a simulation (like real estate) is itself some bias towards a simulation.
This article states that (I don't have Economist premium, so I had to read the summary) movie studios will not license much of their content to be web delivered. Why not? Is it some Lucas conceit, it has to be encoded in THX bullshit, I won't cheapen the experience thing?
Studios need their arms twisted by this, and the way that will happen is when independants get a fair crack at using the distribution system to push their own films. There goes the box office trend, right in the toilet, when I can see the Sundance film festival films live via streaming.
Slashdot Mirror
Pretty soon we'll games where you gotta score some bot growth hormone or other anabolic steroid to get pumped up, bot tae-kwan-do classes. My bot is a black belt!
Actually.... that's a pretty good idea. A MMORPG where you play a thug, but firearms are outlawed or unavailable. Maybe post-apocolypse. You use your controller like a fighting game, and you pick up chains and bats and lead pipes, and maybe a bonus item from a quest is a chainsaw. Instead of the keystroke attack like all ORPG are now, you'd need a fighting game level of fidelity. You'd need really, really low latencies to make it work, it'd have to have the fighting fidelity of something like Tekken. And you could wrestle people to the ground and gang beat (or rape) them. Steroids and other juice made you stronger. Bennies to stay online for more than 20 hours, etc.
Hillary would hate it, you'd have to host it offshore. But I guarantee it would be a massive, massive hit.
We've experienced a number of application crashes since we began playing with Solaris 10, but none capable of pulling the kernel down with it. On the other hand, we've had sloppy JavaScripts immobilize totally, and at times actually re-boot, our Linux box (especially with 2.4.x series kernels); we've seen X oddities do the same, and have experienced several wacky incidents using Microsoft bugware with Wine that required a hard reset. While we haven't taken a systematic approach to blowing up our Solaris 10 installations, one gets the impression of a pretty bulletproof kernel and shell.
That's basically it. The article goes on to basically say driver support sucks and it was kind of a pain to configure, make sure to use the Xorg server and app support is ok. But that kernel, rock solid! Without really mentioning what is happening in 2.6 kernel development or how that argument extends outward toward a better development platform overall.
It's a lost cause, there can only be one. Read all four pages of the article, and ask yourself... would I be interested in creating a disk partition or two and running Open Solaris just to see? I did... and the answer was no... I'd rather spend my time working on my Debian system.
...when it's pretty clear what he intended.
It's comments like that which keep the ACLU and EFF hard at work. Stifle that free speech, it's intended to harm Bush! Cindy Sheehan should be jailed, she means to harm the morale of the troops! She's a traitor!
Take your ignorant "with us or against us" mentality and go peddle flyers for Katherine Harris or something. Your time is better spent trying to scare senior citizens into thinking Social Security needs reform, not being ignorant on Slashdot.
Wallace Shawn is one of the few actors who could make that whole thing work.
He didn't claim he was a repairman. He just said when he uses another person's box. If he isn't using the machine under the pretense of fixing it, then what is his ethical duty? This is like opening somebody's medicine cabinet when you use their bathroom, to see how many pain killers they swig.
So, you may fire him (as you should), but that's not what we are talking about.
I used to have a machine which had the DNS name "fishysmell". When people asked me why I called it that, I told them "because it's a box."
Ah.... nevermind....
This gives you an idea of just how fine a line there is between civilization and complete anarchy. Imagine a fuel crisis much worse than the Carter era, where only a select few can have access to gas each week. Or food shortages. Or a mass bio-hazard.
Better yet, the bird flu. A mass epidemic. Imagine the scene at hospitals. This is why crisis management and homeland security dollars are important - too bad they are being treated by politicians as just another thing to pork barrel. We spend money buying firefighters in Wyoming HazMat suits and trucks - but a nuke in NYC would be catch us completely un prepared.
I always enjoy these little reminders of how close the American public is to hysteria.
Crazy midwestern neo-con bumpkin bible thumpin kneejerk blame the innocent bullshit response.
Other kids retaliate by stealing the bully's identity and linking him to Islamic radical websites.
Welcome to the new future.
The commentator on BBC made an interesting observation. It's better at this point to scrap the shuttle and use the Russian Soyuz program to re-supply the ISS, and move men up and down. We need a few more shuttle flights to complete the work on the ISS, and then we can move to Soyuz. A 40 year space program works better than a 30 year old one does. Thank god the cold war is over, huh?
Steinbrenner has already optioned the contract on the robot for 2008. Apparently, he likes it because you can scream at it all day long and it doesn't get upset.
Violent crime is down in the United States for primarily one reason. Abortion. Since Roe, there have been approximately 38 million abortions in the United States. That's 38 million people who would have probably had less than ideal circumstances in which to grow up, and as a result - crime is down.
There is no correlation with watching the act of violence and being violent. Interactivity in video games has not been studied closely enough to see if it somehow drops the inhibitions to commit real violence, a much better predictor of that is violence against animals.
And before I get flamed, let me provide my evidence. Steven Levitt's work at the University of Chicago showing the DIRECT causality of abortion rates and drops in crime.
http://www.freakonomics.com/
Hmmm. That's a very cogent argument. I will think about it. I don't think Wiki is really analogous to an OSS code project. And it's not truly collaborative, it mimics true collaboration but is really just like a magazine that solicits articles and publishes some without reimbursement and pays others for submissions.
But I think you may be right overall, on the slippery slope. Instead it would have to be soliciting and not retroactive, you'd be willing to pay Stephen Hawking to do an edit on the Quantu Physics entry, you'd get pictures from photographers who can't make any money selling their freelance stuff to National Geographic any more. Have to think how it would work, but I'm not sure it'd be as destructive as you think it would.
If Ebay went offline tomorrow, the net effect to mandkind would be nil. Yahoo auctions, all kinds of things have sprung up that are clones.
Wiki is absolutely one of a kind, if it was destroyed it could not be replaced easily, it would take years. It's approaching the Library of Congress in the United States in size.
Ebay and Wikipedia. I thought neither of them had a chance in hell to work. Ebay was an intermediary broker and I figured would go down in flames from bogus sales, and I thought Wiki would be flooded with ass clowns who wrote a lot of silly joke pages.
I was wrong about both of them. Of the two, Wiki is an actual valuable contribution to mankind. The Wiki project, like the Gutenberg project, is about the proliferation of knowledge. It needs creative input from the whole net community in order to thrive, but as it gains status it becomes a bigger target for systematic abuse. I think this move is sound, Encyclopedia Brittanica and the World Book are bereft after the Internet. What Wiki needs is some sort of incentive system. If Gates wanted to buy some good will, he should give a billion or so to the WIki crew (despite the relationship with Google) and have the editors pay net citizens with Paypal for especially valuable work, or really excellent photos, etc. That is the next step in the evolution of the online knowledge center.
Panama is THE haven for hiding assets. If you embezzeled a shitload of cash from your corporation and need to disappear to a third world country, it's guys like these who can help you out. Isabella from shes.flightrisk.org used them to vanish somewhere having absconded over $100M from her family.
These crazy Panamanian lawyers recommend Hushmail. Used by 4 out 5 international criminals who chew gum. Let's just put it this way... if you wanted to contact a journalist with a blow the roof off the government leak, you'd use Hushmail. The United States Feds wants to get it's hands on Hushmail and cannot. It's been tested in international court. You start sending email to a journalist inbox from Hushmail and they will not find you. Mark Felt would use Hushmail.
This is about Hillary Clinton. Like her or hate her, I am not taking sides in that one. But this is part of her campaign to move to the center. She needs to take on issues of morality, of "saving the children", of making sure she's tough on smut. I'm not sure why, exactly, it may have to do with the fact that the GOP released a smear book about her insinuating she is, and always has been, a lesbian.
Either way, it's a calculated ploy, a checkmark on an agenda designed to set up her run in 2008. She has looked at the numbers, and studied very carefully why Kerry lost, and is not going to make those mistakes. As a woman, she dares not divorce Bill, that was a decision made long ago, even though she loathes him. She needs to prepare her armor against the religious right who will tell her that she is not family values based, not somebody "right" for America. A female presidential candiate has a whole suite of attacks open that don't exist for men. Next up will probably something on terrorism or foreign policy based. Being from New York that makes sense, although she can't touch the insane distrubution of homeland security money, she needs to win states like Colorado and Wyoming, who get "throw away" money.
I found another one. Not as flattering, but not bad.
g rading.games.ap/
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/07/19/
Probably no good for the dead thing.
In the next one, however, you get to beat up Mike Tyson with a bat. You have to wait in line, however.
I would like to have some Hot Hot something with that MILF. Ouch.
Patricia, call me baby.
http://www.esrb.org/about_newsletters.asp
Nice analogy. Makes Linux sound like it's made out of glass. Oh, don't touch it!
It's using the myriad of custom distributions against it. There are Linux distros for forensics, for security, for graphics, for portability, for a myriad of specialties. These distros are usually booted from CDROM, etc. They have nothing to do with an average workstation distrubution installation of Linux, which has perfectly capable package management using apt-get or rpm. Dependency checking is part and parcel of every decent installation shell. Across a boggling array of packages for every conceiveable app.
Microsoft is just working the edges, trying to make the somewhat busy rate of new distros into a negative. It's true, I just got the LAST Fedora Core in when the next one comes out. But it's hardly orphaned, is it? apt-get works just fine for something I may want to add.
Microsoft's war strategy is to drive major Linux distrubutions to being more static, to stop re-releasing new distro updates at such a frenetic rate. They can't compete in this area, it's too costly for them to do major Service Packs all the time.
Think of it this way. They could be holding up pictures from goatse, which has the same hellfire burning effect, but is not controllable.
She's the head of the ESRB.
Kind of a MILF if you ask me.
http://www.esrb.org/about_newsletters.asp
What is the argument for bias in second life? The foundation of the engine, how it works, and what the "world" is seems to be about nothing more than scaffolding holding together whatever the users build. It has NO bias, unless the scarcity of resources in a simulation (like real estate) is itself some bias towards a simulation.
This article states that (I don't have Economist premium, so I had to read the summary) movie studios will not license much of their content to be web delivered. Why not? Is it some Lucas conceit, it has to be encoded in THX bullshit, I won't cheapen the experience thing?
Studios need their arms twisted by this, and the way that will happen is when independants get a fair crack at using the distribution system to push their own films. There goes the box office trend, right in the toilet, when I can see the Sundance film festival films live via streaming.