Not everyone is afraid of showing who they really are.
The privacy issue is bigger than this, but this is what is at the heart of things like Facebook - unashamedness of who you really are, for the few who choose to embrace it.
I went to a totally normal school in Cape Coral, Florida.
I made it out, I'm assuming, an intelligent person capable of thinking for myself.
My school was hardly anything special, however, I had just enough amazing teachers at just the right time to get me where I am now, among many other variables.
I suppose my point is that the teachers are the ones who can affect us. If you're throwing more money at schools, give it ONLY to the teachers who deserve it.
Admittedly, I also have two parents who gave me the tools and put me in a position to be affected by the good teachers I had. It's not an easy solution, but it can be done, and yes, the school system is where the magic happens. Those 12 years need to radically change.
So you're telling me a recently discovered technology isn't perfect?
The important thing here is that we found one physically smaller than anything else. Superconductors are also a pretty Big Deal - their unique properties are very handy in certain applications.
Which is the point: it kicks open the doors of "...We just need something smaller". The consumer market is where stuff like this gets eventually. The applications for industry, development, and who knows what else could be far and wide.
It's a tough knot. It's not physical, like its made out to be - its philosophical.
What right do we have to say "You can't spend money to improve yourself" to anyone, much less the right to say the opposite? As a society, it our duty to improve. The definition of "improve" is the meaning of life, if we knew what it was we where supposed to improve, we would all do it. Look at the stupid things people do when someone is just really convincing about it.
The issue is that, up until this point, the really big sticking point is life.
We simply don't understand it. It drives the frothy-natured scientists of the astral, biological, and other fundamental type sciences. They're not crazy, it's just that understanding the laws of the universe chip away at what life is about. The more we discover around us, the more we can reflect on our place in it. So far... it's pretty fucking bad news bears out there.
Hence the frothed nature of genetics.
Not crazy. In this case, there's even a missing gene, TFA suggested, right? I think there's a clear way that "everyone else" is, genetically speaking. I see no reason to not ask someone "Would you like to replace a missing gene to enable your seeing the fullest colour spectrum possible?", and then do that procedure if they chose to. Totally fucked healthcare systems aside, hopefully it wouldn't be too expensive.
And what of other genetic diseases? We fight cancer and AIDS and all the rest, and have defeated a good many, but we don't really know what the bugs are capable of. That's ok - we've got a lot of smart people who really don't want to die, and good technology. To not do the one and only thing we can realistically do to remove debilitating genetic diseases?
Wealth really does add an ugly spin to all this. But I do ask you this - do you think they could get away it, today? Done knowingly, it would make lots of people very mad.
The option to be able to do such a thing is much more useful and helpful. The opportunity to be smarter? What if it led us down unlocked the parts of our brain we don't use? What if the remaining (what was it? 97%?) of brain we leave dark is needed to FIND the meaning of life.
I'm trying to tell you, that work of this fundamental nature is way too valuable to not be discovered and researched like crazy. Sometimes, bad things happen, but we usually have, at the very least, an angry mob making a lot of noise about it.
It seems pretty moot to me, since you can ignore those annoying applications anyways.
Thank god for it. Jesus, do people not know about that?
The end user should always have as much control as possible. Facebook taking control away is lame.
Everyone who complains about Facebook needs to shut up. It is just another way communicating. in many cases, passively, and people like being lazy. Care about my day? Look me up, bitch.
It is empowerment, if you look at it the right way. Do people use it this idealistically?
I have never seen a motherboard or sound card without line in.
There is also a receiver, connected to the computer. This would get you near-perfect replication in some cases I think. I could be wrong.
I have the same requirement, as I want to listen to music all the time, and I have all my music on my laptop. My laptop is connected to my desktop to an Asus PCIE sound card, and just recently, I grabbed an HDMI 7.1 receiver.
The receiver has a plethora of sources available to it, and it is a reasonably intelligent device. It is more reliable than ATI's sound-over-HDMI drivers, which suck. But, I could also tell you that Sarah Palin is an idiot, or that the sky is blue, or that grass is really a pretty cool thing.
The receiver itself has two options available to it for special recording, some sort of crazy audiophile mumbo jumbo.
Additionally, most motherboards these days also have auto-sense jacks. You can force the motherboard to use any jack as anything, line in, left/right out, mic, etc.
The issue is with this specific regime - their economy is based around technological progress, and getting "caught up" with the rest of the world, infrastructure-wise.
I believe it is the first step in bringing an entire nation forward. Unfortunately, they chose actual oppression over a benevolent dictatorship.
I want them to catch up with the rest of us, because as their people become more educated, they will want to know about this thing we call "Freedom" (speaking as a Canadian, not that the US isn't "Free"). Then people start to get angry, blah blah blah.
However, I still am against oppression and censorship, as what really matters here is an intelligent, free citizenry. Censorship (among other things) is a good way to slow that process, and losing science is a good way to slow the censorship process.
It's a complicated web, and pulling one string tugs on many others. Pull on them enough, and if it unravels around a competent populace, they will rebuild around their current ideals. Hopefully their ideals are right, if not, the process will start again.
Anything that rusts the machinery of their fucked government is better. Scientists losing access to important/useful data? This is good news, as it will slow them down. Hopefully, it will be one of many things that will affect change in the country. The first domino, or perhaps, just the middle domino?
A fine point. Perhaps I'm talking about something more subtle here?
Perhaps I should qualify my position? I recently started using adblock on Chrome, but before that I've just mentally walled out the areas on websites that have ads.
I paid for no ads on/. a few times in the past, and have been "rewarded" with it as well, and I realized that ads just plain don't bother me much. I mean, there's ads, and then there's ads.
I'm talking about the specific ads on Ars. I subscribed to Ars coincidentally - I was not affected by the content block at all. I knew people were going to get all bent out of shape about it, because the bottom line is this:
It's just not in the spirit of the web. It's not the kind of thing you would do to your friends, and the web really seems to redefine (or perhaps create another category) what "friends" are. I would have felt quite betrayed, and I still DID feel betrayed by Ars merely having read about it. I immediately wondered about my investment, and hoped that eventually, cooler heads would prevail, as I think they did, as I think the opinion offered is quite balanced.
But, yes, its totally against "what makes the internet great", but I also recognize the necessity of revenue. I solved both problems: I donated. No more ads, and other perks, plus the satisfaction of actively helping a website I care about, because that website is my online "friend".
...It's quite possible you'll think I'm an idiot after reading that, so here's this as well:
They get to define what they consider theft of their own content, do they not? Their specific business model is making money from ads, and you have a tool that specifically denies them income on that count.
I'm not copyright nazi - I wholly believe that the ability to reproduce knowledge at virtually no cost is where the internet needs to go - it must be as free as possible so that it can be as useful as possible. The great equalizer.
That said, I merely have a specific problem with this specific case, and it is entirely because I am a fan of the site.
I would suggest that RSS feeds and their ilk are the best way to digest information with no ads, and seems to strike a fair balance between the demands of both sides.
You are avoiding the primary method of income for the website. Factual statement.
You are reading content at full cost on their website, directly using their services, and are blocking ads from loading, so they make no money when you load their page.
Like I said, you are stealing. I realized I was stealing, so I became a subscriber.
It works just like everything. The simple stuff is simple, but it takes time and understanding. If you free up the mind to concentrate on harder things, while having something else take care of the simple things, we move forward.
Its about PROGRESS. Why else do we have machines and computers? What are they for? What are doing for us?
Doing things the hard way sucks. I'd much rather develop something that will do it the hard way so I never have to do it the hard way again.
Wikipedia is still the only realistic place to go for the sort of information. The answer is the same everything else: Don't be an idiot, and make sure it's verified. I care about facts, not grammar, and so long as there's a citation I can verify myself.
You can't complain about Wikipedia being inaccurate on a whole. Each article varies, and thats the point. Anything that a lot of people know about, is specific and accurate, and since there's lots of people, many articles that I'm going to be looking at will be good enough for me to learn at least some basic information. It is an excellent jumping point for learning, and it needs to be thought of like that, not like "The World Immutable Answerbook."
I work for a wireless network company in Vancouver. We use Aruba extensively, as it's extremely flexible, powerful, and easy to use.
The chains of Cisco are removed, and an extraordinarily simple setup process - which will help you figure out AP placement and type, after uploading a site map, including all sorts of calculations that I'd really have a computer do.
I seriously recommend you take a serious look at Aruba Networks offerings.
The real problem is that attitudes like this are what prevents a good thing like this from happening.
I think that the animal abuse issue really deserves to be separate from the food industry. While I have extremely mixed views on especially the food issue, home animal abuse is something that deserves real attention, and I think it is the sort of thing the government ought to be in charge of.
I think, used responsibly, this can be a Good Thing. So long as people who want to do some Other Good Thing don't fuck up our Good Thing, Things could really Improve.
I think there is a clear line between "Abuse" and "Food". Which side(s) of the moral line they are on, I can only say that I think the "Abuse" line is well within "Immoral" behaviour.
All that being said... Is a list the right answer? Are stronger penalties the right answer? Or is education the answer?
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The privacy issue is bigger than this, but this is what is at the heart of things like Facebook - unashamedness of who you really are, for the few who choose to embrace it.
If you're talking about Inbound, then, sorry. I just can't trust you guys.
But does it run Linux?
But it is still a respectable amount of traffic.
I agree it's shitty, but it detracts from the fact that you have to pay an extra 20$ a month to use a DVR.
I made it out, I'm assuming, an intelligent person capable of thinking for myself.
My school was hardly anything special, however, I had just enough amazing teachers at just the right time to get me where I am now, among many other variables.
I suppose my point is that the teachers are the ones who can affect us. If you're throwing more money at schools, give it ONLY to the teachers who deserve it.
Admittedly, I also have two parents who gave me the tools and put me in a position to be affected by the good teachers I had. It's not an easy solution, but it can be done, and yes, the school system is where the magic happens. Those 12 years need to radically change.
The important thing here is that we found one physically smaller than anything else. Superconductors are also a pretty Big Deal - their unique properties are very handy in certain applications.
Which is the point: it kicks open the doors of "...We just need something smaller". The consumer market is where stuff like this gets eventually. The applications for industry, development, and who knows what else could be far and wide.
Your cynicism makes me sad. : (
What right do we have to say "You can't spend money to improve yourself" to anyone, much less the right to say the opposite? As a society, it our duty to improve. The definition of "improve" is the meaning of life, if we knew what it was we where supposed to improve, we would all do it. Look at the stupid things people do when someone is just really convincing about it.
The issue is that, up until this point, the really big sticking point is life.
We simply don't understand it. It drives the frothy-natured scientists of the astral, biological, and other fundamental type sciences. They're not crazy, it's just that understanding the laws of the universe chip away at what life is about. The more we discover around us, the more we can reflect on our place in it. So far... it's pretty fucking bad news bears out there.
Hence the frothed nature of genetics.
Not crazy. In this case, there's even a missing gene, TFA suggested, right? I think there's a clear way that "everyone else" is, genetically speaking. I see no reason to not ask someone "Would you like to replace a missing gene to enable your seeing the fullest colour spectrum possible?", and then do that procedure if they chose to. Totally fucked healthcare systems aside, hopefully it wouldn't be too expensive.
And what of other genetic diseases? We fight cancer and AIDS and all the rest, and have defeated a good many, but we don't really know what the bugs are capable of. That's ok - we've got a lot of smart people who really don't want to die, and good technology. To not do the one and only thing we can realistically do to remove debilitating genetic diseases?
Wealth really does add an ugly spin to all this. But I do ask you this - do you think they could get away it, today? Done knowingly, it would make lots of people very mad.
The option to be able to do such a thing is much more useful and helpful. The opportunity to be smarter? What if it led us down unlocked the parts of our brain we don't use? What if the remaining (what was it? 97%?) of brain we leave dark is needed to FIND the meaning of life.
I'm trying to tell you, that work of this fundamental nature is way too valuable to not be discovered and researched like crazy. Sometimes, bad things happen, but we usually have, at the very least, an angry mob making a lot of noise about it.
Thank god for it. Jesus, do people not know about that?
The end user should always have as much control as possible. Facebook taking control away is lame.
Everyone who complains about Facebook needs to shut up. It is just another way communicating. in many cases, passively, and people like being lazy. Care about my day? Look me up, bitch.
It is empowerment, if you look at it the right way. Do people use it this idealistically?
I wish : /
My last Dell E1505 had line in, my Alienware M15x has line in and two audio outs.
There is also a receiver, connected to the computer. This would get you near-perfect replication in some cases I think. I could be wrong.
I have the same requirement, as I want to listen to music all the time, and I have all my music on my laptop. My laptop is connected to my desktop to an Asus PCIE sound card, and just recently, I grabbed an HDMI 7.1 receiver.
The receiver has a plethora of sources available to it, and it is a reasonably intelligent device. It is more reliable than ATI's sound-over-HDMI drivers, which suck. But, I could also tell you that Sarah Palin is an idiot, or that the sky is blue, or that grass is really a pretty cool thing.
The receiver itself has two options available to it for special recording, some sort of crazy audiophile mumbo jumbo.
Additionally, most motherboards these days also have auto-sense jacks. You can force the motherboard to use any jack as anything, line in, left/right out, mic, etc.
I believe it is the first step in bringing an entire nation forward. Unfortunately, they chose actual oppression over a benevolent dictatorship.
I want them to catch up with the rest of us, because as their people become more educated, they will want to know about this thing we call "Freedom" (speaking as a Canadian, not that the US isn't "Free"). Then people start to get angry, blah blah blah.
However, I still am against oppression and censorship, as what really matters here is an intelligent, free citizenry. Censorship (among other things) is a good way to slow that process, and losing science is a good way to slow the censorship process.
It's a complicated web, and pulling one string tugs on many others. Pull on them enough, and if it unravels around a competent populace, they will rebuild around their current ideals. Hopefully their ideals are right, if not, the process will start again.
Since time immemorial.
Anything that rusts the machinery of their fucked government is better. Scientists losing access to important/useful data? This is good news, as it will slow them down. Hopefully, it will be one of many things that will affect change in the country. The first domino, or perhaps, just the middle domino?
Captain Obvious makes his obvious return.
There is a shortage of malware available to exploit those idiots, however.
Kubuntu has worked out of the box exceptionally for me. Better than 7, but I admit, only marginally so.
You know, some people didn't have any problems with Windows ME. Not many... but someone...
-Fred
Perhaps I should qualify my position? I recently started using adblock on Chrome, but before that I've just mentally walled out the areas on websites that have ads.
I paid for no ads on /. a few times in the past, and have been "rewarded" with it as well, and I realized that ads just plain don't bother me much. I mean, there's ads, and then there's ads.
I'm talking about the specific ads on Ars. I subscribed to Ars coincidentally - I was not affected by the content block at all. I knew people were going to get all bent out of shape about it, because the bottom line is this:
It's just not in the spirit of the web. It's not the kind of thing you would do to your friends, and the web really seems to redefine (or perhaps create another category) what "friends" are. I would have felt quite betrayed, and I still DID feel betrayed by Ars merely having read about it. I immediately wondered about my investment, and hoped that eventually, cooler heads would prevail, as I think they did, as I think the opinion offered is quite balanced.
But, yes, its totally against "what makes the internet great", but I also recognize the necessity of revenue. I solved both problems: I donated. No more ads, and other perks, plus the satisfaction of actively helping a website I care about, because that website is my online "friend".
No, you!
I'm not copyright nazi - I wholly believe that the ability to reproduce knowledge at virtually no cost is where the internet needs to go - it must be as free as possible so that it can be as useful as possible. The great equalizer.
That said, I merely have a specific problem with this specific case, and it is entirely because I am a fan of the site.
I would suggest that RSS feeds and their ilk are the best way to digest information with no ads, and seems to strike a fair balance between the demands of both sides.
You are avoiding the primary method of income for the website. Factual statement.
You are reading content at full cost on their website, directly using their services, and are blocking ads from loading, so they make no money when you load their page.
Like I said, you are stealing. I realized I was stealing, so I became a subscriber.
-Fred
No matter what you do, so long as you know you are now stealing content, that is allright. It's not illegal, but it's hardly justifiable.
Its about PROGRESS. Why else do we have machines and computers? What are they for? What are doing for us?
Doing things the hard way sucks. I'd much rather develop something that will do it the hard way so I never have to do it the hard way again.
-Red
You can't complain about Wikipedia being inaccurate on a whole. Each article varies, and thats the point. Anything that a lot of people know about, is specific and accurate, and since there's lots of people, many articles that I'm going to be looking at will be good enough for me to learn at least some basic information. It is an excellent jumping point for learning, and it needs to be thought of like that, not like "The World Immutable Answerbook."
Thats what the Pocket Reference book is for.
The chains of Cisco are removed, and an extraordinarily simple setup process - which will help you figure out AP placement and type, after uploading a site map, including all sorts of calculations that I'd really have a computer do.
I seriously recommend you take a serious look at Aruba Networks offerings.
Seriously.
I think that the animal abuse issue really deserves to be separate from the food industry. While I have extremely mixed views on especially the food issue, home animal abuse is something that deserves real attention, and I think it is the sort of thing the government ought to be in charge of.
I think, used responsibly, this can be a Good Thing. So long as people who want to do some Other Good Thing don't fuck up our Good Thing, Things could really Improve.
I think there is a clear line between "Abuse" and "Food". Which side(s) of the moral line they are on, I can only say that I think the "Abuse" line is well within "Immoral" behaviour.
All that being said... Is a list the right answer? Are stronger penalties the right answer? Or is education the answer?
Somebody shut down /. before knowledge spreads!