I'd agree that video games oftentimes are linked to agressive/violent behavior. I work with games, I play games, and indeed i see that happen. I don't agree games are alone in that situation, we live in a very violent society and there are dozens or hundreds of things leading to increased violence. Indeed reducing violence in society is one of the most noble activities, all kinds of specialties are concerned with it. So let's label everything that leads to violence, yes, I agree. Are military recruiters and training posts going to be required to use the same label? Police signup stations too? Law schools? Post offices? Managerial posts? Salesmen? Prisons? Government posts? Customer service rep positions? Many, many professional activities, hobbies, books, toys, social environments, in society "have been linked to" aggressive and violent behavior, some very correctly, the abuse from customers some positions are required to politely tolerate is just completely insane and utterly wrong, the customer is *not* "always right", and neither are the companies, nobody is always right. Many people get incredibly arrogant and rude. But the bottom line is, *everything* should have a "warning label", saying something like "you are responsible for your actions, mental, and emotional state. You are a member of your own society, if you see or experience violent or abusive behavior, you are *legally required* to take action to call attention to it and stop it, or be liable for social negligence charges".
What's this going to cause as far as applications, is it going to require every single app that talks to ethernet to have special functions for Fedora?
It just depends on how many enemies you have and how bad are the relations, risk levels, and situation assessment. Get things bad enough and a handful of dirt and pile of rocks become weapons indeed. Just look at prisons. Everyone is an enemy, and plastic cups can become a knife in the right hands.
Egypt is one of the countries that still routinely tortures people. So these people really need anonymity. http://www.torproject.org/ -- I use Tor most of the time. But it's terribly slow, there are few out-nodes.
The best I have thought of is a prepaid cellphone, or any phone not in your name. I think it would be correct to try to put it in the name of someone important to make sure someone else is not punished instead of you, and make sure not to use it with any of your personal data, like making and receiving calls to your friends and family with it, and logging into your personal accounts with it. You also will need to get a different phone from your own, as the operator records the phone's IMEI as well as the GSM chip number and phone number. Taking the battery out before you get near your home with the phone is a good idea too.
If you think you have legal cover to be able to run Tor as an EXIT node, it would be helpful to people in Egypt today to have more exit nodes.
This 3D stuff is doing great getting people to buy stuff. Yes we know it's snake oil, we don't give a damn, it sells. If we could just sell snake oil for this much money that would be great, but people won't pay $800 for a "full snake oil kit", unless you call it "full 3d graphics and video setup kit", you just don't sell as much. Now take your science mumbo jumbo elsewhere and let us get to work, we have people to fool and orders to fill, ok?
The rest was crap. Mostly because they forgot about all the technology and mysticism they had slowly concocted for the first one and which made it interesting, and just went with the guns and explosions and special effects that any other movie has, but sells anyways. If they went back to the original idea, they could do a whole series, but just with guns and graphics, there's nothing original.
"Binary thinking" might well define the way of thinking in US politics. Unfortunately. Millions of ideas ultimately devolve to two, Or better yet, since both of those ideas are co-opted and worthless, devolve to zero.
I wonder if the plan is to convert NASA sections from centralized-commercial into outsourced commercial, undercover-military to overt-military, and research.
Finally I got sick of paying US taxes and having no US rights so I left, and am again a Mexican citizen in Mexico, as well as still a "citizen" of the Web. Can I participate in #sotu and post comments too?
We want to WRITE the state of the union in a wiki, not read about it on the web and make "comments" that are filtered, censored and nobody can read. It's a two-way free access medium, not a TV with a phone next to it.
To many people, that's a bit like saying you could avoid using cars or gas-powered vehicles, or Microsoft products altogether. It's an idea, but not completely doable or effective in many cases.
My Face won't. Why on earth should I care about anyone's opinion who isn't on Slashdot?
Insensitive FB clods, we don't even have faces. We just go by ascii strings of nonsensical concatenated or random words such as Stargoat, The MAZZTer, CmdrTaco, h00man, and the like. We should indeed sue them for discrimination against the faceless.
While I agree with the sentiment, what this really demonstrates is that the expectation of privacy needs to be revised to provide some protection.
Sure, but it's not going to happen. What I think is required is, if everyone can navigate our own data, we want to navigate the data of corporate and government employees, too.
The funny part about that is that if they DO use my likeness in a Starbucks advert and I find out about it, I'll make no bones telling everyone on FB how much I detest Starbucks coffee. Oddly enough, I'll drink coffee in any form except decaf and Starbucks.
Same here, I always avoid all large companies whenever possible. Most especially those marketing mass garbage like CrackFucks, CrackCronald's, WhenDie's, etc. Other than them I accept pretty much anything. But I most often prefer the corner spot where the owner is present.
Open immigration to large numbers of people able to work, with strong preferences for those with higher levels of education, while there is space and infrastructure to fit more people. Create free or low-cost public knowledge-level tests for all subjects, and create a public record of all documented skills. Campaign for reduction of imports of everything, balanced trade levels, and for self-reliance, for all countries. Create lots of stimulus for people to study constantly throughout life. Promote the idea that you should consume only what you need, not be wasteful or greedy, and produce as much as you can. Create neighborhood citizen councils, with large powers to decide on what happens in their neighborhoods, emphasizing communications, work, health and education, and excluding only the promotion of violence or discriminatory actions. Propose laws requiring all government employees, officials and their families to use only public services, especially in health and education, available to all people of all income levels. Require everyone to participate in some level of civic life. Create tax laws balancing property levels to a max proportion of 1000-to-1 for wealthy-to-poverty levels.
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I'd agree that video games oftentimes are linked to agressive/violent behavior. I work with games, I play games, and indeed i see that happen. I don't agree games are alone in that situation, we live in a very violent society and there are dozens or hundreds of things leading to increased violence. Indeed reducing violence in society is one of the most noble activities, all kinds of specialties are concerned with it. So let's label everything that leads to violence, yes, I agree. Are military recruiters and training posts going to be required to use the same label? Police signup stations too? Law schools? Post offices? Managerial posts? Salesmen? Prisons? Government posts? Customer service rep positions? Many, many professional activities, hobbies, books, toys, social environments, in society "have been linked to" aggressive and violent behavior, some very correctly, the abuse from customers some positions are required to politely tolerate is just completely insane and utterly wrong, the customer is *not* "always right", and neither are the companies, nobody is always right. Many people get incredibly arrogant and rude. But the bottom line is, *everything* should have a "warning label", saying something like "you are responsible for your actions, mental, and emotional state. You are a member of your own society, if you see or experience violent or abusive behavior, you are *legally required* to take action to call attention to it and stop it, or be liable for social negligence charges".
What's this going to cause as far as applications, is it going to require every single app that talks to ethernet to have special functions for Fedora?
Space seems like the ultimate research and application ground for something that uses the environment around it as a power source, inspired by sails.
It just depends on how many enemies you have and how bad are the relations, risk levels, and situation assessment. Get things bad enough and a handful of dirt and pile of rocks become weapons indeed. Just look at prisons. Everyone is an enemy, and plastic cups can become a knife in the right hands.
I think it's controlled, so won't pose a problem. Besides it's way too costly for real spammers, who send millions of emails.
Or does anything decent really have to run on a server?
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment
Egypt is one of the countries that still routinely tortures people. So these people really need anonymity.
http://www.torproject.org/ -- I use Tor most of the time. But it's terribly slow, there are few out-nodes.
The best I have thought of is a prepaid cellphone, or any phone not in your name. I think it would be correct to try to put it in the name of someone important to make sure someone else is not punished instead of you, and make sure not to use it with any of your personal data, like making and receiving calls to your friends and family with it, and logging into your personal accounts with it. You also will need to get a different phone from your own, as the operator records the phone's IMEI as well as the GSM chip number and phone number. Taking the battery out before you get near your home with the phone is a good idea too. If you think you have legal cover to be able to run Tor as an EXIT node, it would be helpful to people in Egypt today to have more exit nodes.
shitty filipino horror movies.
Prove it.
This 3D stuff is doing great getting people to buy stuff. Yes we know it's snake oil, we don't give a damn, it sells. If we could just sell snake oil for this much money that would be great, but people won't pay $800 for a "full snake oil kit", unless you call it "full 3d graphics and video setup kit", you just don't sell as much. Now take your science mumbo jumbo elsewhere and let us get to work, we have people to fool and orders to fill, ok?
The rest was crap. Mostly because they forgot about all the technology and mysticism they had slowly concocted for the first one and which made it interesting, and just went with the guns and explosions and special effects that any other movie has, but sells anyways. If they went back to the original idea, they could do a whole series, but just with guns and graphics, there's nothing original.
False positives, few-detections, make antiviruses a bit obsolete. Helpful sometimes, other times not at all.
What a bunch of nonsense. To block or allow a sold-out corrupt money site, or a bunch of teenage-modeled showoffs.
"Binary thinking" might well define the way of thinking in US politics. Unfortunately. Millions of ideas ultimately devolve to two, Or better yet, since both of those ideas are co-opted and worthless, devolve to zero.
Well if the people working on the project went from 20 to 100 something, I think there's little else to be said.
I wonder if the plan is to convert NASA sections from centralized-commercial into outsourced commercial, undercover-military to overt-military, and research.
Finally I got sick of paying US taxes and having no US rights so I left, and am again a Mexican citizen in Mexico, as well as still a "citizen" of the Web. Can I participate in #sotu and post comments too?
We want to WRITE the state of the union in a wiki, not read about it on the web and make "comments" that are filtered, censored and nobody can read. It's a two-way free access medium, not a TV with a phone next to it.
You could avoid using facebook altogether.
To many people, that's a bit like saying you could avoid using cars or gas-powered vehicles, or Microsoft products altogether. It's an idea, but not completely doable or effective in many cases.
My Face won't. Why on earth should I care about anyone's opinion who isn't on Slashdot?
Insensitive FB clods, we don't even have faces. We just go by ascii strings of nonsensical concatenated or random words such as Stargoat, The MAZZTer, CmdrTaco, h00man, and the like. We should indeed sue them for discrimination against the faceless.
While I agree with the sentiment, what this really demonstrates is that the expectation of privacy needs to be revised to provide some protection.
Sure, but it's not going to happen. What I think is required is, if everyone can navigate our own data, we want to navigate the data of corporate and government employees, too.
The funny part about that is that if they DO use my likeness in a Starbucks advert and I find out about it, I'll make no bones telling everyone on FB how much I detest Starbucks coffee. Oddly enough, I'll drink coffee in any form except decaf and Starbucks.
Same here, I always avoid all large companies whenever possible. Most especially those marketing mass garbage like CrackFucks, CrackCronald's, WhenDie's, etc. Other than them I accept pretty much anything. But I most often prefer the corner spot where the owner is present.
That's how things used to be done.
Yep, crack for a buck, right over the counter at StarBucks. Hey, it's not like they really pay people there.
Open immigration to large numbers of people able to work, with strong preferences for those with higher levels of education, while there is space and infrastructure to fit more people. Create free or low-cost public knowledge-level tests for all subjects, and create a public record of all documented skills. Campaign for reduction of imports of everything, balanced trade levels, and for self-reliance, for all countries. Create lots of stimulus for people to study constantly throughout life. Promote the idea that you should consume only what you need, not be wasteful or greedy, and produce as much as you can. Create neighborhood citizen councils, with large powers to decide on what happens in their neighborhoods, emphasizing communications, work, health and education, and excluding only the promotion of violence or discriminatory actions. Propose laws requiring all government employees, officials and their families to use only public services, especially in health and education, available to all people of all income levels. Require everyone to participate in some level of civic life. Create tax laws balancing property levels to a max proportion of 1000-to-1 for wealthy-to-poverty levels.