Talk about cutting edge music. Hopefully it's not "ear-splitting" music...
Truly disruptive technology might be an "intestinal auger" with rheostat. Somehow, I suppose the FDA won't allow that piece of equipment to be added to the body...
You know it's a sad day on Slashdot when some humorless wretch can't just leave alone something it can't find funny. Then, worse, when not enough people come along to show the wretch its humorless ways.
Where's the Oldboy clawhammer when it's really needed?
Would be nice if they charge ahead with the hardline, and not only sideLINE but sideSWIPE msoft by cramming their durable balls across ms' face.... Better yet, suffocate ms, cut off THEIR air supply, for a change... Could be a HAIRY, intense experience, ehh? I wonder how much collective mucous ms could generate to get those brave balls out of their nostrils and mouth... Could give "XP" a whole new meaning of "e-X-X-X-Perience"
Nice one: "This plan is not about Microsoft, it's about ensuring the perpetual availability of data without any obstacles."
I guess my pre-frontal cortex saw "OBstacles" and latched on to (metaphorically) to "testicles" and hence this post-anal-vortex of trash spewing forth...
Now, if only the good name of the Netherlands can be used to put ms into the the never-never land, or "etherland"...
Once this takes hold, you can bet news and government intelligence apparatuses will exploit this to the hilt. Propaganda, revisionist history, and deception will gradually be used more than ever to manipulate the public (of any country, internal or external).
Just look at how recently we find the current cadge/cabal in the white house has manipulated fact to bring about world disfavor upon Iran, which the UN and other agencies (even US intel agencies) now claim is not so badly outside of the line when it comes to the nukes and nuclear plants the bush administration so scathingly deride.
Capping data volume is one thing, but selective insertion or redaction of material will prove dangerous and render ever more untrustworthy any use the Internet(s) might have for anything other than frivolous entertainment.
I'd be all open for strings being attached to the sponges and tools.
But, if they sew my ass up after a bypass, I wouldn't want the medical team "pulling on my heart strings" to get back their sponges.
OK, maybe I'm naive (sp?) but:
Couldn't there be some cherry-picker-like device overhead? It could suspend the suction over and out of the way of the doctors, and they could (sort of like in a dental suite) pull down what they need and push aside or allow retraction of that which is not in current use. Sponges could be removed when blood-logged or useless and put in a flattened display (sort of like "Connect Four") so that EVERYone could count them (assuming no stacked sponges).
Tools attached could be retracted into a "resterilizer" unit for use on the SAME patient and then submitted to the autoclave after completion of the procedure. This might save time and obviate a need to constantly switch tools, reduce the number of tools/instruments in the surgical bay/suite, and reduce the number of trays and clutter and time wasted on counting post-op.
But, I guess then, new "medical misadventure" stats would have to accommodate/account for "instrumental expiration", aka "death due to unscheduled removal of arteries caused by clamp ripping arteries after staff tripped/tugged on accounting string attached to instrument..."
Maybe there also should be a fingerprint reader so that the rightful owner can "brick" the thing if it is taken under duress (by criminals or by law enforcement), and this could be enabled by say, a personalized tapping or swiping sequence to brick and unbrick it in case of false alarm. (This would be nice to protect private documents not in the domain or purview of criminals OR cops, such material possibly being trade secrets, or even illicit but legally purchasable material. After all, travelers from CA to TX, or the US to another country might suddenly find themselves criminals for importation of pornographic material...but only provable if anyone can ACCESS the book before it's bricked.)
But, as for the subscription service, that would negate bricking, unless a bricking feature wipes out the account by custom selection. Obviously, anyone with proprietary or sensitive material would probably NOT want such material zipping to and fro between the Amazon system and nodes/routers all over the planet...
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Kindle is Kindling if the Iliad price comes down.
As for Slash, we discussed this the other DAY, but obviously Slash needs to burn some more kindling...
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Sounds like Amazon (and proprietary/DRM-enforcing reader makers) are saying "Read it and WEEP"...
But isn't that their whole point, to stymie the process just like they did when they paid all those shills to join standards bodies to squish Open Source to the fringe/weak voting side?
It's not that they will make money by going to OLPC, they want to bureaucratically suffocate OLPC/XO and make Negroponte et al look foolish, meandering, misguided, and wishfully-thinking. Sadly, ms doesn't know nor care about what is right or fair, they only know power, money, MORE power and MORE money. If OLPC ran/runs windoze successfully, it would be an indictment that mshaft has been screwing us all along. Plus, if OLPC delays parents from buying "real" laptops even just by one year, profits from already (and persistently-) slim margins will send hardware manufacturers into a revolt, and then THEY would probably take a high ground and support Negroponte et all just to make sure he sources the few lucky enough to be in the production pipeline. I say this because if near-zero-acquisition cost Linux requires no tech support or rebate headaches to the manufacturers, then they could probably live without ms borderline-illegal marketing dollars.
You don't just "jump ship" from msoft, you KEELHAUL their ass - from time to time.
Maybe they don't WANT to be into *too* much hardware (considering mice, keyboards, joy sticks, and the hexed box, and possibly phones someday), as they probably don't want to mess up their little tax scheming thing. If they can keep mostly into cash and such, they don't get stuck with all sorts of obsolete manufactured but non-reusable materials.
It might be nice, tho, seeing their asses get saddled with hardware draining their bottom line. They won't build their own, though, for another reason: if it flops, they'll never be allowed to live that one down. Another bonus for them is they can ALWAYS point the finger at the hardware INDUSTRY and keep themselves relatively distant from blame.
After all, just look at how relentlessly under modding attack the heXed pox has been. If ms went into hardware, and their own shit got compromised by Linux and other Open Source OS developers, ms would be the laughing stock of the planet. (In which case they'd have to relocate to the Moon, then ask cartographers to not show their street up there...since they don't want to blow cash moonmoving billions of tons of craters to new location.)
If our ass sets were markets, they'd want a piece or more of our asses, too.
They can keepa knockin' but they CAN'T come IN...
What we need is a sort of "chastity belt" (or, asstity belt?) to keep mshaft OUT, or at least from gaining more turf. And if ms think it's their birthright, then it's time to give that thing a massive case of Montezuma's Reveng, Bird Flu, and Hepatitis all in one. A case of NSP (non-specific profit-itis) wouldn't hurt, either...
Such a project was no priority until Negroponte and others made OLPC come to the fore.
Too bad that back around '96 we only heard fudware/vaporware from the likes of and from ms when others kept demanding smaller windows footprint in disk space, RAM, and other resources. When competition fell and died, ms never really followed through.
Now, with virtualization (WINE, Win4Lin, VMWare, Virtual Box, Bochs, et al), numerous terminal setups, kiosk modes, a besieging amount of Open Source software, populous countries with attractive budgets, and other factors make ms just go into me-too, and copy-cat mode, innovation being just a buzzword to check off on marketing brochures and bandy in conventions.
Now, if only Open Source developers would somehow garner the attention of human interface design and make thinks vastly more polished and less rickety/designed-for-the-nerdgineer, and if people like myself (non-developers) could make use of Eclipse, Glade, Trolltech's software, and things like that, we could spark a whole new renaissance of non-ms stuff that could level the playing field.
How dare ms try to push manufacturers to add more than Linux requires to get OLPC out there. This is just to dick up the manufacturing process to delay boxes otherwise slated for OLPC assembly and deployment, at least as I see it...
"... they won't collect info..." does not equal "... won't store those actions... "
Means "THEY" (as in FACEBOOK) won't collect. Probably also means they offloaded the tool to some ghost subsid or partner who will then periodically aggregate collected data with/to/for Facebook and other unnamed ad agencies... The English language, combined with lawyers, can trick-fuck ANYbody, no matter HOW scholarly or seasoned. Even whole teams of attorneys tend to miss things.
Tried adding to Mozilla Firefox, but it either wants to block ALL of facebook, or doesn't stay in (asterisks?). Any guidance on blocking beacon in M/FF?
This seems to me to be a way to cut off alternate routes, presumably in the name of "homeland insecurity".... or could just be bellyaching ISPs pissed off at loss of revenue...
Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari.""
(Probably the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of hollywood and any servicepersons and tourists from the West who "just didn't get it" or who just didn't give a damn...)
"this film sure is one violent sonofabitch. If you're not down for that, then maybe you should check to see if you can get into a session of Harry Potter instead. Some of the harshest violence in it is self-inflicted (that brother thing again, but taken to an illogical and hella messy degree). And all of it is LOUD. Handguns are like cannons. Kicks are like wrecking balls. Punches are like car crashes. Car crashes are like - well, like car crashes. I think the punches are louder."
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Anyway, I will always respect Kitano-san for how he ended the film, something rarely permitted in many western films. You have to see it for yourself...
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Talk about cutting edge music. Hopefully it's not "ear-splitting" music...
Truly disruptive technology might be an "intestinal auger" with rheostat. Somehow, I suppose the FDA won't allow that piece of equipment to be added to the body...
You know it's a sad day on Slashdot when some humorless wretch can't just leave alone something it can't find funny. Then, worse, when not enough people come along to show the wretch its humorless ways.
Where's the Oldboy clawhammer when it's really needed?
Would be nice if they charge ahead with the hardline, and not only sideLINE but sideSWIPE msoft by cramming their durable balls across ms' face.... Better yet, suffocate ms, cut off THEIR air supply, for a change... Could be a HAIRY, intense experience, ehh? I wonder how much collective mucous ms could generate to get those brave balls out of their nostrils and mouth... Could give "XP" a whole new meaning of "e-X-X-X-Perience"
Nice one: "This plan is not about Microsoft, it's about ensuring the perpetual availability of data without any obstacles."
I guess my pre-frontal cortex saw "OBstacles" and latched on to (metaphorically) to "testicles" and hence this post-anal-vortex of trash spewing forth...
Now, if only the good name of the Netherlands can be used to put ms into the the never-never land, or "etherland"...
I at first thought NASA snapped its fingers and waved a wand,
and there were singers of stars in the pond...
Maybe they will increase the budged by offering their version of "Name Your Star" for the low, low price of... $350
Once this takes hold, you can bet news and government intelligence apparatuses will exploit this to the hilt. Propaganda, revisionist history, and deception will gradually be used more than ever to manipulate the public (of any country, internal or external).
Just look at how recently we find the current cadge/cabal in the white house has manipulated fact to bring about world disfavor upon Iran, which the UN and other agencies (even US intel agencies) now claim is not so badly outside of the line when it comes to the nukes and nuclear plants the bush administration so scathingly deride.
Capping data volume is one thing, but selective insertion or redaction of material will prove dangerous and render ever more untrustworthy any use the Internet(s) might have for anything other than frivolous entertainment.
and burns, the result is the Hindenburg Strategy?
solid, hard, heavy tons of data...
You gotta be kidneying me...
Real, live Human Beans... Self-stocking power, self-stalking fart generators...
I'd be all open for strings being attached to the sponges and tools.
But, if they sew my ass up after a bypass, I wouldn't want the medical team "pulling on my heart strings" to get back their sponges.
OK, maybe I'm naive (sp?) but:
Couldn't there be some cherry-picker-like device overhead? It could suspend the suction over and out of the way of the doctors, and they could (sort of like in a dental suite) pull down what they need and push aside or allow retraction of that which is not in current use. Sponges could be removed when blood-logged or useless and put in a flattened display (sort of like "Connect Four") so that EVERYone could count them (assuming no stacked sponges).
Tools attached could be retracted into a "resterilizer" unit for use on the SAME patient and then submitted to the autoclave after completion of the procedure. This might save time and obviate a need to constantly switch tools, reduce the number of tools/instruments in the surgical bay/suite, and reduce the number of trays and clutter and time wasted on counting post-op.
But, I guess then, new "medical misadventure" stats would have to accommodate/account for "instrumental expiration", aka "death due to unscheduled removal of arteries caused by clamp ripping arteries after staff tripped/tugged on accounting string attached to instrument..."
"Graft Shows Fraud in Russian Elections"...
But, nyet, nyet...
(Spasibo, & dasvidanya, Comrade...)
Maybe there also should be a fingerprint reader so that the rightful owner can "brick" the thing if it is taken under duress (by criminals or by law enforcement), and this could be enabled by say, a personalized tapping or swiping sequence to brick and unbrick it in case of false alarm. (This would be nice to protect private documents not in the domain or purview of criminals OR cops, such material possibly being trade secrets, or even illicit but legally purchasable material. After all, travelers from CA to TX, or the US to another country might suddenly find themselves criminals for importation of pornographic material...but only provable if anyone can ACCESS the book before it's bricked.)
But, as for the subscription service, that would negate bricking, unless a bricking feature wipes out the account by custom selection. Obviously, anyone with proprietary or sensitive material would probably NOT want such material zipping to and fro between the Amazon system and nodes/routers all over the planet...
Kindle is Kindling if the Iliad price comes down.
As for Slash, we discussed this the other DAY, but obviously Slash needs to burn some more kindling...
Sounds like Amazon (and proprietary/DRM-enforcing reader makers) are saying "Read it and WEEP"...
Goddammit, WHEN can we have a "Highlander" who would slash and slay mshaft ONCE AND FOR ALL?
Sounds like with all that ms exzema, ECMA will need...
"Blue Star Ointment! Stops ringworm, tether, psoriasis... STOPS ITCHING FAST. Blue Star Ointment!"
But isn't that their whole point, to stymie the process just like they did when they paid all those shills to join standards bodies to squish Open Source to the fringe/weak voting side?
It's not that they will make money by going to OLPC, they want to bureaucratically suffocate OLPC/XO and make Negroponte et al look foolish, meandering, misguided, and wishfully-thinking. Sadly, ms doesn't know nor care about what is right or fair, they only know power, money, MORE power and MORE money. If OLPC ran/runs windoze successfully, it would be an indictment that mshaft has been screwing us all along. Plus, if OLPC delays parents from buying "real" laptops even just by one year, profits from already (and persistently-) slim margins will send hardware manufacturers into a revolt, and then THEY would probably take a high ground and support Negroponte et all just to make sure he sources the few lucky enough to be in the production pipeline. I say this because if near-zero-acquisition cost Linux requires no tech support or rebate headaches to the manufacturers, then they could probably live without ms borderline-illegal marketing dollars.
You don't just "jump ship" from msoft, you KEELHAUL their ass - from time to time.
Maybe they don't WANT to be into *too* much hardware (considering mice, keyboards, joy sticks, and the hexed box, and possibly phones someday), as they probably don't want to mess up their little tax scheming thing. If they can keep mostly into cash and such, they don't get stuck with all sorts of obsolete manufactured but non-reusable materials.
It might be nice, tho, seeing their asses get saddled with hardware draining their bottom line. They won't build their own, though, for another reason: if it flops, they'll never be allowed to live that one down. Another bonus for them is they can ALWAYS point the finger at the hardware INDUSTRY and keep themselves relatively distant from blame.
After all, just look at how relentlessly under modding attack the heXed pox has been. If ms went into hardware, and their own shit got compromised by Linux and other Open Source OS developers, ms would be the laughing stock of the planet. (In which case they'd have to relocate to the Moon, then ask cartographers to not show their street up there...since they don't want to blow cash moonmoving billions of tons of craters to new location.)
If our ass sets were markets, they'd want a piece or more of our asses, too.
They can keepa knockin' but they CAN'T come IN...
What we need is a sort of "chastity belt" (or, asstity belt?) to keep mshaft OUT, or at least from gaining more turf. And if ms think it's their birthright, then it's time to give that thing a massive case of Montezuma's Reveng, Bird Flu, and Hepatitis all in one. A case of NSP (non-specific profit-itis) wouldn't hurt, either...
Such a project was no priority until Negroponte and others made OLPC come to the fore.
Too bad that back around '96 we only heard fudware/vaporware from the likes of and from ms when others kept demanding smaller windows footprint in disk space, RAM, and other resources. When competition fell and died, ms never really followed through.
Now, with virtualization (WINE, Win4Lin, VMWare, Virtual Box, Bochs, et al), numerous terminal setups, kiosk modes, a besieging amount of Open Source software, populous countries with attractive budgets, and other factors make ms just go into me-too, and copy-cat mode, innovation being just a buzzword to check off on marketing brochures and bandy in conventions.
Now, if only Open Source developers would somehow garner the attention of human interface design and make thinks vastly more polished and less rickety/designed-for-the-nerdgineer, and if people like myself (non-developers) could make use of Eclipse, Glade, Trolltech's software, and things like that, we could spark a whole new renaissance of non-ms stuff that could level the playing field.
How dare ms try to push manufacturers to add more than Linux requires to get OLPC out there. This is just to dick up the manufacturing process to delay boxes otherwise slated for OLPC assembly and deployment, at least as I see it...
I can see it now:
"House Bill Could Criminalize False or Harmful Posting of Health/Medical Videos"
" ... they won't collect info ..." does not equal " ... won't store those actions ... "
Means "THEY" (as in FACEBOOK) won't collect. Probably also means they offloaded the tool to some ghost subsid or partner who will then periodically aggregate collected data with/to/for Facebook and other unnamed ad agencies... The English language, combined with lawyers, can trick-fuck ANYbody, no matter HOW scholarly or seasoned. Even whole teams of attorneys tend to miss things.
Tried adding to Mozilla Firefox, but it either wants to block ALL of facebook, or doesn't stay in (asterisks?). Any guidance on blocking beacon in M/FF?
Thx...
This seems to me to be a way to cut off alternate routes, presumably in the name of "homeland insecurity".... or could just be bellyaching ISPs pissed off at loss of revenue...
Gomen Nasai/Sumimasen. Correction wa, gomen...
(My bad, particularly since the correct spelling was right there in the pages to which I made reference... sigh....)
Hari Kiri.. Only uninformed or deceived Westerners refer to "Hari Kari"
http://home.no.net/harakiri/
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http://www.parida.com/seppuku.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
"Vocabulary and Etymology
Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari.""
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http://www.answers.com/topic/seppuku-1
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(Probably the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of hollywood and any servicepersons and tourists from the West who "just didn't get it" or who just didn't give a damn...)
But, it is carried out with a "tanto":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanto
If you want to see it performed in a film (quite messy in real life and somewhat in the film), see:
Brother,
Starring and produced/directed by Kitano Takeshi (of "Beat"...) and starring Omar Epps
http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/2001/brother01.shtml
http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D27123
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222851/
http://global.yesasia.com/en/artIdxDept.aspx/section-videos/code-j/aid-30742/
and,
http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/brother
"this film sure is one violent sonofabitch. If you're not down for that, then maybe you should check to see if you can get into a session of Harry Potter instead. Some of the harshest violence in it is self-inflicted (that brother thing again, but taken to an illogical and hella messy degree). And all of it is LOUD. Handguns are like cannons. Kicks are like wrecking balls. Punches are like car crashes. Car crashes are like - well, like car crashes. I think the punches are louder."
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Anyway, I will always respect Kitano-san for how he ended the film, something rarely permitted in many western films. You have to see it for yourself...