Now all we need is something to convert the kinetic energy we generate by walking into electricity so we can charge on the go. Instead of air pockets in our shoes, why not little springs and generators?
Oh wait, nerds don't walk anywhere except to the snack machine. Well, I guess that's good enough because they probably have docking stations for all their goodies at any place they plan to be stationed for more than 8 hours.
Major corporations attempt to imprint branding on us when we're young so that we'll be loyal to them later in life because we'll view those brand as canonical.
What the RIAA is doing here is cementing P2P as the way to get music. They think they're creating negative associations with P2P, but what they're really doing is creatin negative associations with the RIAA. It's basic psychology. We hate being told what we can't do by large oppressive corporations, and it only makes us want it more.
"There is no such thing as bad publicity." But what they don't realize is that this is publicity for P2P, not publicity for the RIAA.
I understood that, but then we're making the "except" stretch even further. Heck, we're just totally nullifying the whole amendment, at which point there's no reason to follow ANY of the bill of rights. I guess I just couldn't allow myself to follow that train of thought.
And the video available for download on Al Jazeera's website was only about 5 minutes. I downloaded it, but didn't watch it because it had no subtitles. I had heard on the news that they provided the tape to Al Jazeera with english subtitles, but I didn't see them in the video.
From the summary: All levels of government in Canada must ensure
that their laws are consistent with the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that their policies
and actions do not off end Charter protections.
Several submissions suggested that putting British
Columbians' personal information at risk of seizure
under the USA Patriot Act might confl ict with privacy
protection under the Charter. While we do not analyze
this question, we acknowledge that Canadian courts
require Charter values and rights to be considered in
interpreting legislation such as BC's FOIPPA.
So I decided to look up this charter, and I found it. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which goes to unusual lengths to tell the world that French and English are it's official languages.
Then I decided to look for the US Bill of Rights, which is located not on a website with the words "law" and "justice" in the URL, but rather on "archives.gov" and what I'm reading is a Transcript of the Bill of Rights, as if it's chronicling an event and not informing me of my rights.
And I noticed the transcript of the Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger, and I contrasted it with Canada's charter: 9. Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. 10. Everyone has the right on arrest or detention
a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor;
b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and
c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful. Period, end of sentance, no "except."
Is America more interested in the history of it's laws than in the current reality? Are we, under the Patriot Act, in a constant state of "public danger" and therefore subject to being held, as I've heard people have been, without being told the crime they're being held for, with no court date, and no trial. What a strange, and convoluted time we live in that we are in a constant state of being the exception and not the rule.
Firms in India are setting up shop in Canada as a front for their offshoring operations. Our confidential information that crosses in to Canada ends up in India. Canada's confidential data that crosses in to the United States ends up in... well, probably India.
Folks, we're witnessing a major coup. In the century where Information is Power, all of the information is going to one country - India! India is the new world power.
In a world where Echelon is used for international corporate espionage, and where we've declared war on any country that we think is harboring terrorists, then why should anyone's privacy be protected?
Those damned pinko Canadians may be terrorists, and we need to protect ourselves.
Up in Canada, the Privacy Commissioner of the province of British Columbia is recommending an immediate freeze on all outsourcing of public data to US-connected firms, Reuters and the CBC are reporting. After extensive consultations, the Privacy Commissioner
... is that one day they'll be right, and everyone that said it in the past will suddenly be thought of as prophets. If you back enough new trends, eventually you'll pick one that hits the big time.
HA HA HA. I don't remember the sites, it was a long time ago. There was one that just let you post your public key & IP address, but I think you had to know the network name to retrieve it. There were forums dedicated to this as well. This was a year or two back when Waste first came out and there was a lot of excitement around the product.
And Waste is impossible to detect because each person running Waste can set
their own port number (from the default 1337), and even set it to run on port
80 if they wanted.
Anonymous P2P like Mute
is calling itself the next generation in P2P, and sacrifices performance for
privacy - i.e. you don't know who's requesting a file, you only know who you're
connected to, so you could actually be a conduit for dozens of people sharing
files.
Anonymity (Mute) vs. Privacy (Waste) are mutually exclusive. You either know
who you're talking to reliably, or you don't. You can't both know who you're
talking to AND be anonymous.
Private networks suffer from the same problems as ShadowCrew - if you let too
many people in, one person could comprimise the entire network and learn the
identities of everyone. There are websites out there that share waste networks.
That just seems silly to me. Waste is about *privacy* so publicizing your existance
is just stupid. The problem then becomes finding a group of people you trust
who have different content from you.
I read somewhere a while back about a Japanese DVD trading ring - they actually
mailed DVD's back and forth, perhaps pirating them once they had them. When
you joined you had the name of the person who invited you in attached to your
name until you built up a reputation. People looking to go underground would
be wise to adopt such a policy. Invitation only, stay small, and develop a reputation
system. Don't these people watch undercover movies like Wu
jain dao (Infernal Affairs here in America)?
Re:If you want to learn a bit about Antartica...
on
Exploring Antarctica
·
· Score: 1
Some of the happiest people on Earth don't make a distinction between *work* and *life*. Mostly pre-industrial societies where people can do things like till the fields or milk the cows. It sounds like a chore, but it's extremely satisfying seeing the results of your labor.
In particular, from the book I mentioned, the author was a doctor, so as long as everyone was healthy, her work was done, but at the same time, being the only doctor she couldn't drink too heavily because she was only on call.
When you love your work, and it's literally your reason for being where you are, that's a good combination.
And yes, going to the south pole to find a sense of community is really geeky.
Teaser spots start on Monday, playing up the dual-screen device's touch
controls. A woman's sultry voice invites the viewer to come a little closer
and get a feel.
When you're a kid you're always told you can't touch anything,
said Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing at Nintendo of America. Touching
is good. You're grown-up now, so read it how you want.
Print ads appear in young men's magazines Maxim and Blender, with a buxom
woman holding a DS model and advising, How to Score!... Start listening
to her needs, playa!
Industry analysts said Nintendo's ads should draw young adults who are
keen on gadgets and the image they project.
The Game Boy Advance has always been a kids platform, said
Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter. The DS is going to
move up the age scale... and they are going to put some more mature content
on there,
Tell me again that the hot goth chicks connection isn't intentional.
If you want to learn a bit about Antartica...
on
Exploring Antarctica
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
I just finished a great book on what Antartica is really like called Ice
Bound by Jerri Nielsen.* After reading it, I felt like I would want to go
live there for a while, except I hate the extreme cold. The sense of community
is something beautiful, and completely lacking from our modern society, as well
as work being your life and your life being your work (and that's a good thing).
Good luck with your Winter-Over. If you started a blog, would yours be the
first from Antartica? If you did, I would consider it a must-read.
*Yes, I make $0.02 if you order through that link, so sue me.
Now everybody knows hot goth chicks like Nintendo AND we're going to give them a free DS so they can blog about it all day long just in time for the holiday season.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
PS: nobody cares that it was a guy who wrote about it, all they hear is "suicidegirls.com" and "nintendo."
We would like to apologize to you and to those who frequent the suicidegirls.com website for inadvertently contacting you about a fan posting on the website.
We know that many of our fans are old enough to make their own choice about what they want to view on the Internet. We value the support of our fans and we respect their decisions. The letter was sent as part of an ongoing Nintendo program to aggressively protect our younger consumers from the hundreds of sexually-explicit sites each year that use Nintendo properties to attract children. We are proud of our efforts in this area. Unfortunately, the site posting identified in our letter was targeted by mistake.
As a gesture of goodwill, we would like to offer you (and RuneLateralus) a free Nintendo video game system and game of your choice. (...)
In addition, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with contact information for RuneLateralus, or have him contact us directly, so that we may apologize to him. We would be glad to send him a game and system of his choice through you as well, since we do not have his contact information.
Sincerely,
Christie Hamilton
Nintendo of America Inc.
Consumer Service Department
This was a stealth marketing ploy on the part of Nintendo.
"Hey, hot goth chicks like Nintendo games, how can we publicize this fact? I know, let's send them a nasty letter from our lawyers and 200,000 geeks will start to associate hot goth chicks with Nintendo."
Oh, thanks. I was a little fuzzy on that, actually and perhaps jumped the gun posting it. Still, the FAQ said that there were concerns about the lasers causing eye damage, and I think it was only red & black. Sounded the same to me....
Wood pellet stoves
are an alternative way to heat a home. The stoves use wood pellets, which look
exactly like rabbit food, and are made out of dried recycled compressed sawdust
from lumber mills that otherwise ends up in landfills.
Because the stoves are so efficient, there is almost no smoke or creosote produced,
in fact the exhaust is barely even hot so the stove doesn't need a masonry chimney
and can be installed anywhere a tin metal liner can be put in, either directly
into the roof, or sideways out a wall. They can be stand-alone stoves on legs
in the corner of a room, or chimney inserts using an existing chimney. Unlike
wood stoves, pellet stoves work well in urban environments because of little
exhaust and no need for a chimney and can be installed in any room.
The stoves require electricity to run so if you loose power it won't work,
which is a notable drawback, although there are solutions such as a generator
or battery back up. I personally have a long extension cord to an inverter in
my car in the driveway in case of a heating emergency. The pellet stoves also
make noise with the blower fan and turning augur, this has become less an issue
with more recent stove technology which is significantly quieter.
You're right about the tax benefit that should be eliminated, but at the end of the day, the government is there to serve the corporations and not the people, and "free trade" is really more about benefit to the corporations than it is benefit to the people.
In a nutshell: Read Noam Chomsky, especially listen to his lecture The Attack on the Working Class.
Slashdot Mirror
Now all we need is something to convert the kinetic energy we generate by walking into electricity so we can charge on the go. Instead of air pockets in our shoes, why not little springs and generators?
Oh wait, nerds don't walk anywhere except to the snack machine. Well, I guess that's good enough because they probably have docking stations for all their goodies at any place they plan to be stationed for more than 8 hours.
Major corporations attempt to imprint branding on us when we're young so that we'll be loyal to them later in life because we'll view those brand as canonical.
What the RIAA is doing here is cementing P2P as the way to get music. They think they're creating negative associations with P2P, but what they're really doing is creatin negative associations with the RIAA. It's basic psychology. We hate being told what we can't do by large oppressive corporations, and it only makes us want it more.
"There is no such thing as bad publicity." But what they don't realize is that this is publicity for P2P, not publicity for the RIAA.
I understood that, but then we're making the "except" stretch even further. Heck, we're just totally nullifying the whole amendment, at which point there's no reason to follow ANY of the bill of rights. I guess I just couldn't allow myself to follow that train of thought.
I don't know if it's complete, but another one I found that appears to be a different translation has basically the same content:
L E_ ID=41192
i dd le_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5400w .aljazeera.com/email1.asp
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTIC
And the video available for download on Al Jazeera's website was only about 5 minutes. I downloaded it, but didn't watch it because it had no subtitles. I had heard on the news that they provided the tape to Al Jazeera with english subtitles, but I didn't see them in the video.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/m
http://ww
From the summary: All levels of government in Canada must ensure that their laws are consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that their policies and actions do not off end Charter protections. Several submissions suggested that putting British Columbians' personal information at risk of seizure under the USA Patriot Act might confl ict with privacy protection under the Charter. While we do not analyze this question, we acknowledge that Canadian courts require Charter values and rights to be considered in interpreting legislation such as BC's FOIPPA.
So I decided to look up this charter, and I found it. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which goes to unusual lengths to tell the world that French and English are it's official languages.
Then I decided to look for the US Bill of Rights, which is located not on a website with the words "law" and "justice" in the URL, but rather on "archives.gov" and what I'm reading is a Transcript of the Bill of Rights, as if it's chronicling an event and not informing me of my rights.
And I noticed the transcript of the Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger , and I contrasted it with Canada's charter: 9. Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. 10. Everyone has the right on arrest or detention a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor; b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful. Period, end of sentance, no "except."
Is America more interested in the history of it's laws than in the current reality? Are we, under the Patriot Act, in a constant state of "public danger" and therefore subject to being held, as I've heard people have been, without being told the crime they're being held for, with no court date, and no trial. What a strange, and convoluted time we live in that we are in a constant state of being the exception and not the rule.
Here's a Complete Transcript of Bin Laden's speech.
Firms in India are setting up shop in Canada as a front for their offshoring operations. Our confidential information that crosses in to Canada ends up in India. Canada's confidential data that crosses in to the United States ends up in... well, probably India.
Folks, we're witnessing a major coup. In the century where Information is Power, all of the information is going to one country - India! India is the new world power.
In a world where Echelon is used for international corporate espionage, and where we've declared war on any country that we think is harboring terrorists, then why should anyone's privacy be protected?
Those damned pinko Canadians may be terrorists, and we need to protect ourselves.
You forgot the first sentance:
Up in Canada, the Privacy Commissioner of the province of British Columbia is recommending an immediate freeze on all outsourcing of public data to US-connected firms, Reuters and the CBC are reporting. After extensive consultations, the Privacy Commissioner
This is basically what Mute, and I think ANtz does.
... is that one day they'll be right, and everyone that said it in the past will suddenly be thought of as prophets. If you back enough new trends, eventually you'll pick one that hits the big time.
HA HA HA. I don't remember the sites, it was a long time ago. There was one that just let you post your public key & IP address, but I think you had to know the network name to retrieve it. There were forums dedicated to this as well. This was a year or two back when Waste first came out and there was a lot of excitement around the product.
And Waste is impossible to detect because each person running Waste can set their own port number (from the default 1337), and even set it to run on port 80 if they wanted.
Anonymous P2P like Mute is calling itself the next generation in P2P, and sacrifices performance for privacy - i.e. you don't know who's requesting a file, you only know who you're connected to, so you could actually be a conduit for dozens of people sharing files.
Anonymity (Mute) vs. Privacy (Waste) are mutually exclusive. You either know who you're talking to reliably, or you don't. You can't both know who you're talking to AND be anonymous.
Private networks suffer from the same problems as ShadowCrew - if you let too many people in, one person could comprimise the entire network and learn the identities of everyone. There are websites out there that share waste networks. That just seems silly to me. Waste is about *privacy* so publicizing your existance is just stupid. The problem then becomes finding a group of people you trust who have different content from you.
I read somewhere a while back about a Japanese DVD trading ring - they actually mailed DVD's back and forth, perhaps pirating them once they had them. When you joined you had the name of the person who invited you in attached to your name until you built up a reputation. People looking to go underground would be wise to adopt such a policy. Invitation only, stay small, and develop a reputation system. Don't these people watch undercover movies like Wu jain dao (Infernal Affairs here in America)?
Some of the happiest people on Earth don't make a distinction between *work* and *life*. Mostly pre-industrial societies where people can do things like till the fields or milk the cows. It sounds like a chore, but it's extremely satisfying seeing the results of your labor.
In particular, from the book I mentioned, the author was a doctor, so as long as everyone was healthy, her work was done, but at the same time, being the only doctor she couldn't drink too heavily because she was only on call.
When you love your work, and it's literally your reason for being where you are, that's a good combination.
And yes, going to the south pole to find a sense of community is really geeky.
Nintendo Says 'Touching Is Good' in Sexed-Up DS Ads
Tell me again that the hot goth chicks connection isn't intentional.
I just finished a great book on what Antartica is really like called Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen.* After reading it, I felt like I would want to go live there for a while, except I hate the extreme cold. The sense of community is something beautiful, and completely lacking from our modern society, as well as work being your life and your life being your work (and that's a good thing).
Good luck with your Winter-Over. If you started a blog, would yours be the first from Antartica? If you did, I would consider it a must-read.
*Yes, I make $0.02 if you order through that link, so sue me.
Now everybody knows hot goth chicks like Nintendo AND we're going to give them a free DS so they can blog about it all day long just in time for the holiday season.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
PS: nobody cares that it was a guy who wrote about it, all they hear is "suicidegirls.com" and "nintendo."
Hello,
We would like to apologize to you and to those who frequent the suicidegirls.com website for inadvertently contacting you about a fan posting on the website.
We know that many of our fans are old enough to make their own choice about what they want to view on the Internet. We value the support of our fans and we respect their decisions. The letter was sent as part of an ongoing Nintendo program to aggressively protect our younger consumers from the hundreds of sexually-explicit sites each year that use Nintendo properties to attract children. We are proud of our efforts in this area. Unfortunately, the site posting identified in our letter was targeted by mistake.
As a gesture of goodwill, we would like to offer you (and RuneLateralus) a free Nintendo video game system and game of your choice. (...)
In addition, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with contact information for RuneLateralus, or have him contact us directly, so that we may apologize to him. We would be glad to send him a game and system of his choice through you as well, since we do not have his contact information.
Sincerely,
Christie Hamilton
Nintendo of America Inc.
Consumer Service Department
This was a stealth marketing ploy on the part of Nintendo.
"Hey, hot goth chicks like Nintendo games, how can we publicize this fact? I know, let's send them a nasty letter from our lawyers and 200,000 geeks will start to associate hot goth chicks with Nintendo."
And you all fell for it.
Oh, thanks. I was a little fuzzy on that, actually and perhaps jumped the gun posting it. Still, the FAQ said that there were concerns about the lasers causing eye damage, and I think it was only red & black. Sounded the same to me....
Would be if, since they're already sticking us with a laser beam in the eye, was if they could track eye movements.
This way we coul play tetris (or by that time Grand Theft Auto on a cell phone) just by tiny eye movements.
It's all fun and games until someone burns an eye out.
Cell phones with frikkin laser beams mounted on them.
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Nintendo came out with a video game system based on a similar technology, but it failed miserably. Read more about it here:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/vboy/file/virtu
Here's another, similar product:
http://www.mvis.com/nomadexpert/index.html
I would think the fact that lasers only emit one color of light at a time might be a problem, will they somehow combine them on the mirror?
Wood pellet stoves are an alternative way to heat a home. The stoves use wood pellets, which look exactly like rabbit food, and are made out of dried recycled compressed sawdust from lumber mills that otherwise ends up in landfills.
Because the stoves are so efficient, there is almost no smoke or creosote produced, in fact the exhaust is barely even hot so the stove doesn't need a masonry chimney and can be installed anywhere a tin metal liner can be put in, either directly into the roof, or sideways out a wall. They can be stand-alone stoves on legs in the corner of a room, or chimney inserts using an existing chimney. Unlike wood stoves, pellet stoves work well in urban environments because of little exhaust and no need for a chimney and can be installed in any room.
The stoves require electricity to run so if you loose power it won't work, which is a notable drawback, although there are solutions such as a generator or battery back up. I personally have a long extension cord to an inverter in my car in the driveway in case of a heating emergency. The pellet stoves also make noise with the blower fan and turning augur, this has become less an issue with more recent stove technology which is significantly quieter.
But it's hosted out of Bulgaria, so everything should be OK.
Thanks for the sig correction.
You're right about the tax benefit that should be eliminated, but at the end of the day, the government is there to serve the corporations and not the people, and "free trade" is really more about benefit to the corporations than it is benefit to the people.
In a nutshell: Read Noam Chomsky, especially listen to his lecture The Attack on the Working Class.