I'm sure an expert Windows sysadmin could name half a dozen MORE system/domain level ways to stop this dead in its tracks.
Even if such a mythical creature existed, what's the guarantee that they would either have the time or resources or management support to implement such a system. Once the boss can't get files on his key from work, the whole thing would have to be tossed.
Google's not aiding the Chinese government here, they're undermining it.
How? By giving the population access only yo "approved" information. Any way you spin this, Google, like Cisco before it, is actively engaged in supressing the Chinese population in exchange for cold hard cash.
Censorship is more powerful in the digital age. With a company as sophisticated, experienced and effective as Google, censorship can be a frightening thing. Think bayesian filters and pagerank for "dissident" opinions and sites. Track subversives by there browsing and search history. You think Google won't do it? If there's money in it, they will.
We're not talking censorship by inept government here. We're talking industrial, high-tech censorship the likes of which has never been seen before. And all the while GOOG will go up and up. You'd best hope that Google and Cisco don't start bringing the fruits of their censorship R&D back home with them.
Once regular sources of information have become tainted with disinformation, people will turn away to what they feel are more "trustworthy" outlets.
If you destroy TV, radio, newspapers and even the internet with lies, people in need of the truth will turn back to the pulpit, to obtain comfort and security from the man who spits bile at infidels, women and modernity, and who tells them that masturbation is wrong and menstruation is unclean and that we're all tainted by some sin that someone who never even existed committed.
I live in a country that was like this not too long ago. I'd rather not have to go back to it, or see anyone else forced to either.
They have to make sure nothing bad is on the network and the kids can't get to any questionable sites.
Why does anyone care? If some 13 year old has enough determination to get past the firewalls and look at pornography, I tell him good luck. That and of course ban him permenantly from my network for the rest of his days. If he really needs to use the net, he can, but only with lynx.
I too am sick and tired of seeing "dont" instead of "don't", and "im" instead of "i'm".
Sometimes people just forget, and really can't be bothered to check they're posts for grammer and spelling errors. You think Shakespeare never made spelling or grammer mistakes? Have you read those plays?!
I can assure you that as a survivor of a WWII concentration camp, Tom Lantos is in no way a supporter of Gitmo.
So what's he actually doing about it? Instead of making noise about that, he's hassling Google and Microsift about their dealings abroad. Maybe he should divert his energies to more pertinent matters on the home front.
Seriously, Lantos has some nerve. He's a memner of the same congress that both approved Guantanamo Bay and moved to supress images from Abu Ghraib. Censoring information to people in other countries is one thing. Censoring information from your own counrtymen is another.
Perhaps Lantos should look closer to home for people to berate. Asking the sociopaths that run multinational corperations whether they are "ashamed" is ridiculous to begin with. These people are physically incapable of that emotion. Joe Congressman on the other hand, may have developed the ability by tuning himself into his electorate over the years.
I was not of course, comparing video games to real combat. Rather I was comparing the tedium of endless homogeneity to the depression that afflicted soldiers on the eastern front, as they went further and further without seemingly getting anywhere.
A word of caution here. Some mathematicians can and do produce results like this, applying insane techniques to simpler problems, resulting in confusion and often incompetance all round.
As for its spirit -- your stupid "America is the worst" innuendo -- see my earlier post. You are comparing the incomparable -- a meme common among young Lefties...
Pull the broomstick out slowly, when you are done counting to 100.
It must be terrible for you; not being able to enjoy "suspected" terrorists being tortured, raped and having their anuses photographed without hearing some commu^H^H^Hleftie raise shrill objections. If only that was a rapable offense too, eh?
That videogame stalwart, the end-of-level boss, is back in fashion. Once a mainstay of arcade game design, these creatures have fallen out of favour recently, with modern designers generally favouring a non-linear structure. But smash hits Resident Evil 4, God of War and Shadow of the Colossus have brought them back into the spotlight so once again we're all facing the prospect of being pulverised by giant monsters.
Yes! Those bloody "next generation", "realism" proselytes have finally been ignored. That whole crowd calling for an end to bosses, power ups, levels, etc, etc was really just a bunch of insecure people wanting to banish all semblance of the "games are for kids" opinion of their new found hobby.
Bosses are important in games. Fighting nothing but grunts and the occasional elite is all very well, but unless you can really spice the whole thing up, I'm not going to have any sense of accomplishment or progress at all. Without a boss, I'm like a wehrmacht soldier trawling through league after league of Soviet Russia, slowly becoming more demoralised.
And if a boss interferes without your "immerisive, realistic, sophisticated" expierience of WWII Germany; Cry me a river. Bring on the end of level big boss man! With the groovy music in tow! Time to show this game the skills I've learned/powered up!
We need a new edition, that will also make it illegal for US companies to cooperate with civil rights suppression by foreign regimes.
Then what's going to happen to the catering companies that supply the CIA caffeteria?! Rendition doesn't happen on an empty stomach you know... at least for the renderers.
It plays into the "low end luxury snob" trend that America is so deeply into these days with other non-necessities like Starbucks and high end restaurants.
I love this trend. It enables me to live comfortably, despite my lower salary.
All China's attempts to control the internet will ultimately fail. People are too smart and determined and government is too big and clumsy.
Technology can make it happen. Filters can flush out dissidents and suspect sites. Whitelists can control whole swathes of the net. Faster and more efficient communication can make the Thought Police the leanest, meanest, most efficient organisation on the planet.
If the government has enought to lose, they will become a lot bigger and a lot less clumsy, and make sure you're either not as smart, or not as determined, or both.
Today we don't know the fate of that brave young man, but we can safely assume that there is more steel in that young man's spine than any of the leaders in Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cicso.....
While I don't like Google's actions in China, they're not nearly as reprehensible as Cisco Systems (equipping and training Chinese Police to seek out those who have spoken against the Government using the routers to prosecute) and Yahoo (turning over contact information of those who were specifically targeted), so Google really is a more minor player here than the others anyway.
Unlike the others, Google actually keep trying to tell evryone they "different". "Good", "Don't Be Evil". As such, they really need to be shown up.
Yes, movie piracy is a problem, but many people can't be bothered to download a 700MB movie, compress it to PSP size with PSP codecs, then watch it in grainy, blurry pictures.
I did it. Once, as a proof of concept only to myself. I could watch Advent Children on my sibling's psp. Joy. I said to myself "What was the point?". The PSP was sold not long after, so that the gods of redundancy I didn't set up some ridiculous batch job.
Afterall, even now every commonplace mp3 player is oten referred to as an iPod, so won't people just think of this as an "Amazon iPod"? Unless they have a few tricks up their sleeve, some people will take this as a cheap copy and want "the real thing (tm)"
This is the mistake every mp3 player manufacturer is making. They assume that Apple's iPod represents the state of the art, and all they can hope to do is compete with substandard products priced lower than the lowest iPod.
It's a nonsense of course. These companies could come out with a better product than the iPod if they bothered to put any effort in. As it is, why would I pay $200 for a shoddy 2GB flash player, when I could just pay $400 and get a 40GB video iPod.
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I'm sure an expert Windows sysadmin could name half a dozen MORE system/domain level ways to stop this dead in its tracks.
Even if such a mythical creature existed, what's the guarantee that they would either have the time or resources or management support to implement such a system. Once the boss can't get files on his key from work, the whole thing would have to be tossed.
You should have reported him for child abuse.
Google's not aiding the Chinese government here, they're undermining it.
How? By giving the population access only yo "approved" information. Any way you spin this, Google, like Cisco before it, is actively engaged in supressing the Chinese population in exchange for cold hard cash.
Censorship is more powerful in the digital age. With a company as sophisticated, experienced and effective as Google, censorship can be a frightening thing. Think bayesian filters and pagerank for "dissident" opinions and sites. Track subversives by there browsing and search history. You think Google won't do it? If there's money in it, they will.
We're not talking censorship by inept government here. We're talking industrial, high-tech censorship the likes of which has never been seen before. And all the while GOOG will go up and up. You'd best hope that Google and Cisco don't start bringing the fruits of their censorship R&D back home with them.
Once regular sources of information have become tainted with disinformation, people will turn away to what they feel are more "trustworthy" outlets.
If you destroy TV, radio, newspapers and even the internet with lies, people in need of the truth will turn back to the pulpit, to obtain comfort and security from the man who spits bile at infidels, women and modernity, and who tells them that masturbation is wrong and menstruation is unclean and that we're all tainted by some sin that someone who never even existed committed.
I live in a country that was like this not too long ago. I'd rather not have to go back to it, or see anyone else forced to either.
Welcome to the world of ASCII pr0n! NSFW (or school districts) !!!!
If someone is willing to go to those lengths, I think the internet is the least of their problems. That said, I'm not sure lynx supports css sheets.
Well, at least the Troll's are still reading the BSD section!
They have to make sure nothing bad is on the network and the kids can't get to any questionable sites.
Why does anyone care? If some 13 year old has enough determination to get past the firewalls and look at pornography, I tell him good luck. That and of course ban him permenantly from my network for the rest of his days. If he really needs to use the net, he can, but only with lynx.
I too am sick and tired of seeing "dont" instead of "don't", and "im" instead of "i'm".
Sometimes people just forget, and really can't be bothered to check they're posts for grammer and spelling errors. You think Shakespeare never made spelling or grammer mistakes? Have you read those plays?!
It would look an awful lot like the internet we have now.
Except for, you know, the Tier 1 ISPs, on whose networks practically all our traffic passes at some point.
Control them, and you control the net.
This might be interesting, if it's even true, but it's still offtopic.
I can assure you that as a survivor of a WWII concentration camp, Tom Lantos is in no way a supporter of Gitmo.
So what's he actually doing about it? Instead of making noise about that, he's hassling Google and Microsift about their dealings abroad. Maybe he should divert his energies to more pertinent matters on the home front.
Seriously, Lantos has some nerve. He's a memner of the same congress that both approved Guantanamo Bay and moved to supress images from Abu Ghraib. Censoring information to people in other countries is one thing. Censoring information from your own counrtymen is another.
Perhaps Lantos should look closer to home for people to berate. Asking the sociopaths that run multinational corperations whether they are "ashamed" is ridiculous to begin with. These people are physically incapable of that emotion. Joe Congressman on the other hand, may have developed the ability by tuning himself into his electorate over the years.
I was not of course, comparing video games to real combat. Rather I was comparing the tedium of endless homogeneity to the depression that afflicted soldiers on the eastern front, as they went further and further without seemingly getting anywhere.
A word of caution here. Some mathematicians can and do produce results like this, applying insane techniques to simpler problems, resulting in confusion and often incompetance all round.
As for its spirit -- your stupid "America is the worst" innuendo -- see my earlier post. You are comparing the incomparable -- a meme common among young Lefties...
Pull the broomstick out slowly, when you are done counting to 100.
It must be terrible for you; not being able to enjoy "suspected" terrorists being tortured, raped and having their anuses photographed without hearing some commu^H^H^Hleftie raise shrill objections. If only that was a rapable offense too, eh?
From TFA:
That videogame stalwart, the end-of-level boss, is back in fashion. Once a mainstay of arcade game design, these creatures have fallen out of favour recently, with modern designers generally favouring a non-linear structure. But smash hits Resident Evil 4, God of War and Shadow of the Colossus have brought them back into the spotlight so once again we're all facing the prospect of being pulverised by giant monsters.
Yes! Those bloody "next generation", "realism" proselytes have finally been ignored. That whole crowd calling for an end to bosses, power ups, levels, etc, etc was really just a bunch of insecure people wanting to banish all semblance of the "games are for kids" opinion of their new found hobby.
Bosses are important in games. Fighting nothing but grunts and the occasional elite is all very well, but unless you can really spice the whole thing up, I'm not going to have any sense of accomplishment or progress at all. Without a boss, I'm like a wehrmacht soldier trawling through league after league of Soviet Russia, slowly becoming more demoralised.
And if a boss interferes without your "immerisive, realistic, sophisticated" expierience of WWII Germany; Cry me a river. Bring on the end of level big boss man! With the groovy music in tow! Time to show this game the skills I've learned/powered up!
Um, being a bit pedantic here, but that's mostly carbohydrate, not protein.
Actually the contents are mostly sin and evil, with just a touch of impending divine retribution. Here's your hair shirt.
We need a new edition, that will also make it illegal for US companies to cooperate with civil rights suppression by foreign regimes.
Then what's going to happen to the catering companies that supply the CIA caffeteria?! Rendition doesn't happen on an empty stomach you know... at least for the renderers.
It plays into the "low end luxury snob" trend that America is so deeply into these days with other non-necessities like Starbucks and high end restaurants.
I love this trend. It enables me to live comfortably, despite my lower salary.
All China's attempts to control the internet will ultimately fail. People are too smart and determined and government is too big and clumsy.
Technology can make it happen. Filters can flush out dissidents and suspect sites. Whitelists can control whole swathes of the net. Faster and more efficient communication can make the Thought Police the leanest, meanest, most efficient organisation on the planet.
If the government has enought to lose, they will become a lot bigger and a lot less clumsy, and make sure you're either not as smart, or not as determined, or both.
Today we don't know the fate of that brave young man, but we can safely assume that there is more steel in that young man's spine than any of the leaders in Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cicso.....
But not as much brass in his neck!
I'm sorry. Could you translate that into Galatic Common, because I'm not seeing the big picture here.
While I don't like Google's actions in China, they're not nearly as reprehensible as Cisco Systems (equipping and training Chinese Police to seek out those who have spoken against the Government using the routers to prosecute) and Yahoo (turning over contact information of those who were specifically targeted), so Google really is a more minor player here than the others anyway.
Unlike the others, Google actually keep trying to tell evryone they "different". "Good", "Don't Be Evil". As such, they really need to be shown up.
Yes, movie piracy is a problem, but many people can't be bothered to download a 700MB movie, compress it to PSP size with PSP codecs, then watch it in grainy, blurry pictures.
I did it. Once, as a proof of concept only to myself. I could watch Advent Children on my sibling's psp. Joy. I said to myself "What was the point?". The PSP was sold not long after, so that the gods of redundancy I didn't set up some ridiculous batch job.
Afterall, even now every commonplace mp3 player is oten referred to as an iPod, so won't people just think of this as an "Amazon iPod"? Unless they have a few tricks up their sleeve, some people will take this as a cheap copy and want "the real thing (tm)"
This is the mistake every mp3 player manufacturer is making. They assume that Apple's iPod represents the state of the art, and all they can hope to do is compete with substandard products priced lower than the lowest iPod.
It's a nonsense of course. These companies could come out with a better product than the iPod if they bothered to put any effort in. As it is, why would I pay $200 for a shoddy 2GB flash player, when I could just pay $400 and get a 40GB video iPod.