1) It would require something different from regular radio. I'd like to be able to listen to all-reggae, or all-cuban -- don't replicate the crap that already smothers the radio dial
2) No commercials -- if I'm paying for a monthly service, i don't want to hear any ads. (this alone would make it worth a monthly fee)
3) A low monthly fee. I currently pay about $5-10 a month already to a local community-funded radio station (http://www.wpkn.org -- check it out, they kick ass). I wouldn't pay more than $10 a month, and honestly $7.50 seems a fair price.
4) Cheap/free hardware -- noone is going to pay a lot of money for hardware that may very well be obsolete in 6 months to a year.
Needs 3 and 4 are the toughest ones to meet, I think. Especially when following 2. I'd love to see someone pull it off, though, and I'd definitely have one installed in my car.
What's next, a means of DOUBLING HARD DRIVE SPACE? Maybe someone soon will announce they've figured out a way to make screens BIGGER and CHEAPER....
It amazes me some of the stuff that slashdot rejects when compared with some of the stuff that gets posted.
I submitted something over the weekend about someone at indymedia.org who was detained at an airport and questioned aboput posts he'd made to a web discussion group under a pseudonym.
Yes, that's right, he was pulled aside at an airport and they not only knew exactly who he was, but his nick and specific posts he'd made.
Seems to scream "YRO," but hey, we gotta make space for stories about bigger hard drives and faster, cooler processors that may see the light of day eventually.
I truly hope that if I do develop such a brain tumor that so largely incapacitates my memory and cognition, and I happen to be President of the United States, that the nation is informed of it and I am removed from my duties before my power is abused by those around me who know how easy it is to take advantage of my condition.
uh.... No, i'm not tricking anyone into downloading a trojan. It's a web application.
You know, everyone is going on about ASPs and web apps, huge companies like WebLogic and projects like, oh, say, Tomcat and Jserv are built around them.
Of course, the model is flawed if your entire means of getting people to interact with the application is through web forms. They're not very interactive.
Of course, you could always build huge ActiveX modules to do it for you, but we chose Java instead. Unfortunately, it's a Microsoft world out there, and they've done a pretty good job of making sure we're not going to have an easy time of it.
But you know, MS is out there to help businesses, right?
Unfortunately, jus tlike his PS2 port....
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....we won't ever get to see it. It's nice and all to know that this guy can sit in his living room and play MAME, but it's not much use to the rest of the world if it's never released.
I work for an ASP, and we basically have to build full web applications that function like Office tools, and believe me, port 80 is a necessity.
We need to fire up a java applet on the client machine that maintains a session with the server. We also need to allow chat.
I can't begin to tell you how many million sof dollars we've lost as a company because of large corporations that refuse to adjust their firewall settings to accomodate web applications.
Some of them don't want.jar files being executed. Some of them just don't want to allow anything but port 80.
If we're only allowed traffic on port 80, which is the case when dealing with 90% of corporate environments, your choice is either a) get the services running over port 80 or b) give up on maintaining your business.
I see your point. Still, I'm not even worried about "outside forces," I'm worried about the individuals putting it together. I'm worried that none of them are elected into their power.
I'm worried about how the individuals involved got involved in the first place, why none of us are allowed a voice even at this early stage, and how the process of getting involved will change over time.
I'm worried about the fact that the WTO will be staging its next meeintg in Qatar, and that it has been publically stated that this is because Qatar has such a significant police state that protests will not and can not happen.
It's too much power. It really is.
It's very easily defined.
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It is the consolidation of global power into fewer and fewer hands.
If there is any one lesson that mankind should have learned from its history, it is that power corrupts.
I know that you folks are looking for writers and reading through scripts...
Are you accepting scripts still?
I have a couple of scripts that I was working on back in the days when the animated series was running, and I'd like to know if people can still submit them, and if so, submit them exactly where?
(oh, and also, is there any chance that we might see Speak appear?)
Power should never be THAT consolidated. If there is one lesson that is proven time and again throughout the history of mankind, it is that power corrupts man.
We shouldn't be allowing SO much power to conglomerate in the hands of so few people. It's far too dangerous.
Plain and simple.
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Well, more information has surfaced recently, as more documents become declassified.
In a civilized world, Mr. Negroponte would not be a candidate for high public office; he would be on trial for crimes against humanity. As U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, he oversaw the supply mission for U.S.-trained "Contra" terrorists, based in Honduras, who waged war against the people and government of Nicaragua. Part of that campaign involved ensuring that the regime in Honduras received hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid, despite its dismal human-rights record. Thus, when Battalion 316, a CIA-trained body of the Honduran army, slaughtered hundreds of alleged dissidents and kidnapped and tortured hundreds of others, Mr. Negroponte turned a blind eye. In reports to his government, he consistently claimed that the Honduran regime bore no responsibility for the wave of atrocities unleashed in that country. This week, Mr. Negroponte, an architect of terror and the illegal violation of state sovereignty, will be confirmed as the U.S. representative to a forum - the United Nations - whose Charter is based on respect for the sovereignty of all countries, whether rich or poor, and which claims to safeguard the rights of all human beings, whether powerful or powerless.
Hell, it's not even a complete sentence, but it gets the point across.
It won't be. Bin Laden had never mentioned Palestine before, and he only brought it up now to rile up support for his cause.
The point of making mistakes is to learn from them. We have proven that we don't.
Hell, Bush just appointed Negroponte to be our ambassador to the UN. So just as we laucnh a "War on Terror," we appoint a world-reknowned terrorist to be our UN representative.
The New World Order will continue apace.
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I agree. And there's been no push really in the media or in school to educate the American people on just what the US had done in the middle east for the last 30 years.
Instead of a nation thinking about innovative ways of dealing with foreign policy, we're getting everyone riled up for a fight.
As the Onion said, "Privileged Sons of Millionaires Square Off On World Stage."
We're not learning any lessons, and it's been 3 decades of buildup to this disaster. People wonder why it didn't happen sooner -- because the "intelligence" agencies had caught up with earlier attempts. This one snuck past them.
It's misleading to assume that the readership of/. is either a) college students or b) random geeks without experience.
There are a lot of people here with even more accumulated experience, and it is just that portion of the/. crowd that would be interested in a posted question like this one.
It would be very interesting to see a/. poll asking the crowd how many years of experience they have.
I was hitting the BBC site when this war hit, when the irony of using them as an "aternative" news source hit me.
I've been reading a lot on ZMag (http://www.zmag.org), and again, skepticism is somewhat required.
As I watch CNN and MSNBC, it keeps striking me how very caucasian and Christian every single bit of it is -- from the anchors to the guests to the correspondents to the ",ilitary experts"....
Where are the Islamic Americans? Where's (God forgive me for saying this) Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam? Where are the Jews in support of Israel? Are we doomed to only hear the Christian caucasian outlook on this whole debacle?
Granted, it's par for the course with American media, but honestly, I thought that with the whole nation in an uproar, we might hear a few new voices....
Well, that's what I was getting at, but apparently did a bad job of explaining, so "-1 Missing His Own Point".
With all of the consolidation that is going on these days, it's very simple to control the media. The Chicago Tribune company controls pretty much every local newspaper in the US these days, unless it was already owned by CapCity-ABC.
There are about 6 or 7 corporations that control most of the "entertainment" and "news" that you see, read or hear on any given day -- here is a convenient chart of who controls what. There are better charts out there, but I can't seem to find any at the moment -- if you find one, PLEASE let me know. (the site is a little slow)
So before you make your "informed decisions" on what is going on in the middle east right now, or how well your representatives are actually representing you, or how much more important the economy is than anything else, remember that before you make an "informed decision," you need to consider the source of your information.
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1) It would require something different from regular radio. I'd like to be able to listen to all-reggae, or all-cuban -- don't replicate the crap that already smothers the radio dial
2) No commercials -- if I'm paying for a monthly service, i don't want to hear any ads. (this alone would make it worth a monthly fee)
3) A low monthly fee. I currently pay about $5-10 a month already to a local community-funded radio station (http://www.wpkn.org -- check it out, they kick ass). I wouldn't pay more than $10 a month, and honestly $7.50 seems a fair price.
4) Cheap/free hardware -- noone is going to pay a lot of money for hardware that may very well be obsolete in 6 months to a year.
Needs 3 and 4 are the toughest ones to meet, I think. Especially when following 2. I'd love to see someone pull it off, though, and I'd definitely have one installed in my car.
That's AMAZING, they announced that?
What's next, a means of DOUBLING HARD DRIVE SPACE? Maybe someone soon will announce they've figured out a way to make screens BIGGER and CHEAPER....
It amazes me some of the stuff that slashdot rejects when compared with some of the stuff that gets posted.
I submitted something over the weekend about someone at indymedia.org who was detained at an airport and questioned aboput posts he'd made to a web discussion group under a pseudonym.
Yes, that's right, he was pulled aside at an airport and they not only knew exactly who he was, but his nick and specific posts he'd made.
Seems to scream "YRO," but hey, we gotta make space for stories about bigger hard drives and faster, cooler processors that may see the light of day eventually.
The story is here, btw.
I truly hope that if I do develop such a brain tumor that so largely incapacitates my memory and cognition, and I happen to be President of the United States, that the nation is informed of it and I am removed from my duties before my power is abused by those around me who know how easy it is to take advantage of my condition.
I realize that you guys want my password, but....
I'm sorry, I just cannot recall it.
.... or you could just bust out your labeler and write "INDREMA" on it :]
uh.... No, i'm not tricking anyone into downloading a trojan. It's a web application.
You know, everyone is going on about ASPs and web apps, huge companies like WebLogic and projects like, oh, say, Tomcat and Jserv are built around them.
Of course, the model is flawed if your entire means of getting people to interact with the application is through web forms. They're not very interactive.
Of course, you could always build huge ActiveX modules to do it for you, but we chose Java instead. Unfortunately, it's a Microsoft world out there, and they've done a pretty good job of making sure we're not going to have an easy time of it.
But you know, MS is out there to help businesses, right?
....we won't ever get to see it. It's nice and all to know that this guy can sit in his living room and play MAME, but it's not much use to the rest of the world if it's never released.
I work for an ASP, and we basically have to build full web applications that function like Office tools, and believe me, port 80 is a necessity.
.jar files being executed. Some of them just don't want to allow anything but port 80.
We need to fire up a java applet on the client machine that maintains a session with the server. We also need to allow chat.
I can't begin to tell you how many million sof dollars we've lost as a company because of large corporations that refuse to adjust their firewall settings to accomodate web applications.
Some of them don't want
If we're only allowed traffic on port 80, which is the case when dealing with 90% of corporate environments, your choice is either a) get the services running over port 80 or b) give up on maintaining your business.
Can you say "Slow News Day?"
I see your point. Still, I'm not even worried about "outside forces," I'm worried about the individuals putting it together. I'm worried that none of them are elected into their power.
I'm worried about how the individuals involved got involved in the first place, why none of us are allowed a voice even at this early stage, and how the process of getting involved will change over time.
I'm worried about the fact that the WTO will be staging its next meeintg in Qatar, and that it has been publically stated that this is because Qatar has such a significant police state that protests will not and can not happen.
It's too much power. It really is.
It is the consolidation of global power into fewer and fewer hands.
If there is any one lesson that mankind should have learned from its history, it is that power corrupts.
More power == more corruption.
My apologies, they mention in the linked interview that Speak will not appear.
Well, actually, the interviewer says it, not Ben, so I suppose it is still possible....
I know that you folks are looking for writers and reading through scripts...
Are you accepting scripts still?
I have a couple of scripts that I was working on back in the days when the animated series was running, and I'd like to know if people can still submit them, and if so, submit them exactly where?
(oh, and also, is there any chance that we might see Speak appear?)
It no makes sense to me.
Is to be confusing and not good.
Yeah, I was wondering where Barth and Pynchon were. They're far and away some of the best wriets of our time.
Either of them can be entertaining or enlightening, and while they can separate them both, they can also intertwine them the way that noone else can.
Like, say, the shift from Lot 49 to Gravity's Rainbow. It's like there are several different writers living in Pynchon's head.
Come on, that guy's writing haven't even begun to sink in yet, and his prophesies will come continue to support him.
He's got a better grasp on the human condition than anyone else I've read in my life.
Power should never be THAT consolidated. If there is one lesson that is proven time and again throughout the history of mankind, it is that power corrupts man.
We shouldn't be allowing SO much power to conglomerate in the hands of so few people. It's far too dangerous.
Plain and simple.
Well, more information has surfaced recently, as more documents become declassified.
There was a good bit on it at newsday.com, but they pulled it. Here's google's cache of it.
This one's a bit extreme:
In a civilized world, Mr. Negroponte would not be a candidate for high public office; he would be on trial for crimes against humanity. As U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, he oversaw the supply mission for U.S.-trained "Contra" terrorists, based in Honduras, who waged war against the people and government of Nicaragua. Part of that campaign involved ensuring that the regime in Honduras received hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid, despite its dismal human-rights record. Thus, when Battalion 316, a CIA-trained body of the Honduran army, slaughtered hundreds of alleged dissidents and kidnapped and tortured hundreds of others, Mr. Negroponte turned a blind eye. In reports to his government, he consistently claimed that the Honduran regime bore no responsibility for the wave of atrocities unleashed in that country. This week, Mr. Negroponte, an architect of terror and the illegal violation of state sovereignty, will be confirmed as the U.S. representative to a forum - the United Nations - whose Charter is based on respect for the sovereignty of all countries, whether rich or poor, and which claims to safeguard the rights of all human beings, whether powerful or powerless.
Hell, it's not even a complete sentence, but it gets the point across.
I hear ya. I was actually called a "commie pinko fag" yesterday.
A lot of people just argue with anything that questions their blind faith.
It won't be. Bin Laden had never mentioned Palestine before, and he only brought it up now to rile up support for his cause.
The point of making mistakes is to learn from them. We have proven that we don't.
Hell, Bush just appointed Negroponte to be our ambassador to the UN. So just as we laucnh a "War on Terror," we appoint a world-reknowned terrorist to be our UN representative.
The New World Order will continue apace.
I agree. And there's been no push really in the media or in school to educate the American people on just what the US had done in the middle east for the last 30 years.
Instead of a nation thinking about innovative ways of dealing with foreign policy, we're getting everyone riled up for a fight.
As the Onion said, "Privileged Sons of Millionaires Square Off On World Stage."
We're not learning any lessons, and it's been 3 decades of buildup to this disaster. People wonder why it didn't happen sooner -- because the "intelligence" agencies had caught up with earlier attempts. This one snuck past them.
AltaVista, once known as a premier search provider among Internet cognoscenti,
Internet cognoscenti? Who is getting blown here, the writer, wired, or the reader? All three?
Cognoscenti must be the offspring of the Digerati, who begat Shem.
It's misleading to assume that the readership of /. is either a) college students or b) random geeks without experience.
/. crowd that would be interested in a posted question like this one.
/. poll asking the crowd how many years of experience they have.
There are a lot of people here with even more accumulated experience, and it is just that portion of the
It would be very interesting to see a
I was hitting the BBC site when this war hit, when the irony of using them as an "aternative" news source hit me.
I've been reading a lot on ZMag (http://www.zmag.org), and again, skepticism is somewhat required.
As I watch CNN and MSNBC, it keeps striking me how very caucasian and Christian every single bit of it is -- from the anchors to the guests to the correspondents to the ",ilitary experts"....
Where are the Islamic Americans? Where's (God forgive me for saying this) Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam? Where are the Jews in support of Israel? Are we doomed to only hear the Christian caucasian outlook on this whole debacle?
Granted, it's par for the course with American media, but honestly, I thought that with the whole nation in an uproar, we might hear a few new voices....
Well, that's what I was getting at, but apparently did a bad job of explaining, so "-1 Missing His Own Point".
With all of the consolidation that is going on these days, it's very simple to control the media. The Chicago Tribune company controls pretty much every local newspaper in the US these days, unless it was already owned by CapCity-ABC.
There are about 6 or 7 corporations that control most of the "entertainment" and "news" that you see, read or hear on any given day -- here is a convenient chart of who controls what. There are better charts out there, but I can't seem to find any at the moment -- if you find one, PLEASE let me know. (the site is a little slow)
So before you make your "informed decisions" on what is going on in the middle east right now, or how well your representatives are actually representing you, or how much more important the economy is than anything else, remember that before you make an "informed decision," you need to consider the source of your information.
It gets more difficult to do every day.