I wish I could find a link on the net to the video, it was one of those "scared straight" kinda shows in the mid 90s and they took these kids to a big pen, Riker's I think.
What I'll never forget is the warden looked at their case files and said "Most of these you can help, #3 and #14 are lost causes" and when asked he explained why. #3 was named Leroy or something like that and was a crack baby. he said "This kid has had the part of the brain that lets him visualize the future and past just wiped out, I've seen it a million times. you can't teach a person not to commit crimes if they have no concept that there is gonna be a tomorrow and they will be punished. For Leroy there is ONLY today, yesterday and tomorrow are concepts he'll simply never understand" and the second one? Pedo which he pointed out you just don't stop those with anything short of prison, once they have started preying on kids that's it.
Sure enough at the end of the show they did a follow up, and the 14 year old Pedo was already in jail for raping a 7 year old but it was leroy that would have raised the hair on your neck. he was in jail for bashing a man's head in for a leather coat and they asked him about it: "Leroy did you LIKE what you saw at prison?" no. "Then WHY did you bash that man's head in?" because he had a nice coat and I wanted it. And then they talked to the warden who said "This is EXACTLY the behavior I was talking about, Leroy has brain damage. His brain simply cannot process the concept of yesterday or tomorrow, all he knows is this very minute. How do you teach someone right from wrong when they can't understand the concept of future and past? you can't, all you can do is lock them away so they can't hurt anyone else" and watching that kid? TRULY SCARY as he really didn't understand, he just couldn't grasp the concept that things you do this minute can affect you in the future, that part of his brain will simply never work. So for the rest of his life Leroy will be a predator, because if he sees something he wants? He'll just take it as he has no concept of consequences and never will.
Thanks for the advice, never thought of dropping an email. I always support them the old fashioned way, by actually looking at the ads and if its something i might be interested in clicking on it, even if I'm not planning on buying that day. That way their metrics will show that not being a douchebag is actually raising their amount of clicks which is probably the best thing they can bring to the PHBs anyway.
Again though I have NO problem with sites using ads, as long as they aren't bitchslapping me, blocking the content, or worse blowing my ears off with some jingle horseshit. Want to put a text or even a GIF? I don't have a problem with those and if you have half a brain and target the ads logically, and by that I do NOT mean tracking I mean common sense like putting ads for geeky things like flash drives and SSDs on Ars or/. then I'll even click on them and buy if the price is right.
But the problem is the ads have gotten downright rude and insulting and targeted ads are even worse, they'll show me hundreds of ads for things related to something I bought a year ago and have no interest in now while ignoring what I'm actually on the page to fricking look at! Why am I getting ads for laptops when I'm on a page reviewing SSDs? You'd think that would give them a clue if I'm reading reviews that I was thinking of buying one but no, because I bought a netbook nearly 2 years ago and did research before I bought that is ALL the targeted ads are for. You watch, I'll buy an SSD for my netbook and for the next 2 years I'll get SSD ads.../facepalm/
Big second on that, as I was looking a year and a half ago for a netbook because I got tired of the weight of a fullsize and after trying a couple of the AMD netbooks customers had bought found they do what I needed a mobile to do....except I already BOUGHT my EEE E350 netbook not a month after I started searching, but to this day I get ads up the ass for new netbooks. Considering my last 2 laptops last I heard are still running with the people I sold them to and I often get over 5 years from a laptop? Trying to sell me one is beyond pointless and I have ZERO interest in buying another one for years,great job guys.
Sadly the things I AM interested in now, SSDs and external drives i'll end up getting through one of the Tiger or NewEgg emails because at least they show me a wide variety of tech stuff, all I'm getting from targeted ads is for shit I bought ages ago and have no need of another one. From what I can see these ads are only good a targeted what you USED to want, not what you are actually looking for now. you'd think when I'm reading review after review of SSDs they'd get the clue and realize I'm looking for an SSD to put in my netbook? Nope, just ads for more netbooks. What a giant failwhale.
But you just gave yourself the answer, if its about a TV show? Duh box sets! If it has multiple shows and books cited? Well you have a lot of fodder for the ads then don't you?
None of that changes the fact that the web is all about splitting into niches and those niches can have ads shown to them without having a dozen corps following my ass like fricking spies just to try to milk me like a damned cow for more monies! Nom nom nom! Fuck them, fuck their greed, either learn how to do old fashioned ads or sell t-shirts or something but if you can't make money without fucking over your viewers or spying on them you deserve to die.
Dude, know how many tech articles I read in a week? I remember the CONCEPTS and ideas, I don't have a damned clue how the writer wrote the phrasing. Frankly I never have to remember anyway, as the guy above you helpfully provided the link for me and since my Google Fu does sucketh that is just as well.
But this is why I probably have over a thousand bookmarks now, all compiled into various categories, because if its anything I think I'll ever want to read again or cite I pretty much have to bookmark or I'll never find it again.
Then DOUBLE the amount you pay for broadband and I'M sick of hearing anybody bitch about the costs. Sounds fair? Because thanks to the lowballing of the entire IT industry for the past decade there are not enough trained techs to do the jobs that switching to a national IPV6 would require. Hell call ANY regional carrier and ask about their IPV6 rollout plans, hell ask the larger ones like AT&T, Time Warner, Cox, what you'll get is a bunch of blank stares because they do not have the people and thus have not even BEGUN to plan.
Whether you like them or not here are some facts, 1.-The industry simply doesn't have enough trained techs with IPV6 knowledge and experience, the old guys are all retiring rather than keep getting shitty pay and long hours and the young guys have almost no experience or real knowledge because the corps won't pay the salaries required for their education and training. 2.-If the corps have to pay for the above education and training they will pass the costs onto you because heaven forbid they should actually lower profits by a single cent, why what would Wall Street think? 3.-If you were to try to switch WITHOUT the people qualified to diagnose and fix the problems that WILL arise you are gonna have a national clusterfuck, and that clusterfuck is gonna cost BILLIONS. Imagine banking sites not working, shopping sites not working, pretty much anything that isn't the government not working or working poorly.
This of course isn't counting the hundreds of millions of dollars required to replace virtually every home router and modem in the entire USA, which will ALL be heading to the landfills because they simply don't have the power in either CPU nor memory to support a quadrupling of the address space, this includes virtually all routers being sold at retail and online at this very moment (go to NewEgg and Tiger and look for yourself, nearly all being sold are NOT IPV6 capable even now and these companies will NOT be even attempting to update them, they'll just roll out new ones) and of course we don't have the manpower to go out and set up those tens of millions of IPV6 routers so pretty much all net other than smartphones will be broken. Finally you have a HUGE SECURITY PROBLEM in that most security software has NOT been tested with IPV6 and IPV6 itself is in its infancy with regards to security. Look up "IPV6 Malware" and see for yourself how the blackhats are ALREADY taking advantage of this and with a lack of software and personnel to support the changeover it'll be a malware writer's paradise.
So I'm sorry friend but you are living on fantasy island, where you can flip a switch and this will actually work...it won't. Huge chunks WILL break, tons of hardware WILL have to be thrown out which when you have a dead economy and people struggling telling them they are gonna have to buy Apple airports because nobody else is really supporting IPV6 is just bullshit, and your ISPs simply don't have people with the skills required to fix anything in a timely manner if things go wrong which they WILL go wrong, we have seen time and time again that you don't do major rollouts without serious issues popping up.
Not to mention it misses the stinking elephant corpse in the room, which is the people no longer have ANY say in copyright legislation, it is so blatantly and obviously bought with illegal bribery that its as pathetic as any third world country kangaroo court.
Since I don't know the exact numbers the Japanese have on their copyright "limits" I'll use the USA numbers which I DO know, can you show me anyone OTHER than an industry shill that would think 150+ year copyrights are a good thing? Does anybody here think if it was placed on the ballot for a national vote that people would agree to copyrights that last 2 lifetimes? If anything I would argue that thanks to the Internet making it easier than ever to sell your product that copyrights should be SHORTER than the original 25 years, closer to 15, to actual do as they were intended and promote the arts. After all is it the artists that hold these copyrights? Bwa ha ha ha! The first thing the record companies do is demand ALL rights and then fuck the artists every chance they get. Know how much Cheap Trick has gotten from iTunes? Nothing, not a cent. Thanks to Hollywood accounting Bat Out Of Hell I, the album that actually holds the record for longest album on the billboard 200 charts, actually didn't make a damn dime. Meatloaf had to file bankruptcy while fighting the company who gave him nothing for the biggest selling album in history!
So until We, The People get to actually have a voice and a vote we should ignore all copyrights that are not held by the artists. If I were given a chance to reform the system it would be 17 years and the rights could ONLY be held by the artist. They could be rented by the corps, but this rental could only be for 5 year increments and would automatically return to the artist unless the corp bought an extension from the artist. But until the day comes we actually have reform copyrights are a bad joke, they are bought by bribery by people who face no prosecution for such illegal acts and is designed to allow a handful of rich old fucks to buy up whole sections of our history and build paywalls around it. Name a famous event of the past century? Somebody has a paywall around it. It is disgusting that such illegal acts are allowed in broad daylight and when the laws are so blatantly rigged why should we follow laws bought and paid for by illegal means?
I'm sorry but that is THEIR problem because if I'm on a geeks site? DUH why the fuck are you showing me ads for fucking doilies? If I'm on a car site why in the hell are you showing me ads for flowers?
If a site is generic THEN they would have to show generic ads but the web is all about splitting people into niches and frankly it shouldn't take Einstein to figure out WTF ads you should be showing. If I'm on TVTropes? Duh DVDs! Its a no brainer.
Exactly, not everything on the net should last forever and the wayback machine is good at giving us a taste of those that have gone. Look at all those 90s sites like all those giant Geocities pages dedicated to fan fics. Now some of those things got pretty damned huge, with dozens of authors that sadly in the cases of some shows like Voyager were actually better writers than the ones on the show.
But just because a site grows large does NOT mean it should go on forever, people change, things may lose popularity, sometimes things should just be allowed to die. I mean the BeOS community was big back in the day but when the guys that ran those sites moved on? Well the horse was done dead, time to let go and pick a different OS anyway.
So I have to agree, if nobody gives enough of a damn to take over when the guy was ready to quit frankly it wasn't worth continuing. Hell I think that's one of the nice things about the web, communities can grow and change and move on to other places without restriction, so if some site dies and someone else doesn't take up the mantle then frankly there wasn't enough people caring about that to bother.
I mean if/. turned into another Gawker or EnGadget I'm sure somebody else would start up a site for actual geeks that talks about something other than consoles and cell phones and everyone would just migrate and that would be the end of that.
Well since I don't use Firefox I DO use Adblock, but if a site pledges not to hit me with flashy speaker blasting ads? I happily unblock, just as I do with Ars. If you can't respect me enough not to blow my damned ears off with some damned jingle or slap my CPU with some "punch the monkey to win an iPod" style eyesore then screw you, I really don't care.
Besides everyone is missing the elephant in the room which is we used to have sites with ads that worked just fine without tracking someone across 50 damned websites! You had a GIF or JPEG ad, if they clicked on it it took you to where the product in the pic was being sold and you got thrown a few cents for each time someone came referred from your site. Simple.
Now these assholes want to be able to follow you across the entire web, know every single place you go and what you do because "God damn it we have to monetize every second of these sheeps lives!" well fuck them, if they can't make money with the old business model then let them sell t-shirts or whatever, its not our job to bend over backwards because dumbasses can't figure out how to make money.
Its like the whole adblocking deal, I block everyone EXCEPT those that say "We promise not to be obnoxious and put flashing sound blasting shitpile ads on our site so please support us by not blocking" so you know what? I don't block those sites. but the absolute second they DO show me some obnoxious flashing speaker blasting ad? Their asses are blocked and all the pleas in the world won't change it.
Respect is a two way street and if you don't respect me or my right not to be spied upon why the fuck should I respect you or give a shit about your desire to monetize everything I do. The web was here before you, it'll be here after you're gone, please go away and stop wasting space that could be taken up by people that are NOT douchebags, thanks.
Uhhh...BAD analogy friend, because if the DoD is sitting on a class A and only using a couple of thousand addresses you could redistribute all of their unused ones and not change a single thing about how they work whereas with their first idea Lightsquared bought MUCH cheaper than normal priced communication frequencies because it was SAT ONLY and thus cheaper because you had to pay 100s of millions for the bird and launch, only Lightsquared didn't want to actually USE them for sats, they want to use them on the ground which would wipe out those that had already put up their sats" by overpowering their signals.
Now here we see them again, wanting to pay little to nothing for a band ALREADY IN USE by balloons and weather sats which would again lose their ability to communicate while Lightsquared makes out like a bandit on their new franchise. With those sitting on millions of IP addresses redistributing the ones they aren't using while leaving them...ohh lets say 10,000+ extras in case they have huge growth down the line, would not affect what they are doing now one little bit, Lightsquared would royally fuck over the ones that paid to actually use that bandwidth correctly, only for them to again make out like bandits by getting the spectrum at fire sale prices.
Please die already Lightsquared, nobody wants you, you're just trying to fuck people for your own gain, you're another VC funded leech on the ass of society and you needed to be burned off and disposed of. Either get your VC cronies to cough up the funds to buy spectrum legitimately, which of course they won't because the whole way they planned to make mad monies was by getting spectrum at fire sale prices instead of paying fair market value, or go the fuck away.
Hell I recently read an article (sorry I didn't think to save the bookmark) that MSFT was doomed in the mobile space precisely because the carriers don't want competition from Skype and are punishing MSFT for buying it by refusing to give WinPhone the same push and deals they do with the Droid phones. Considering how badly they screw you on voice and data? Certainly sounds believable to me.
This is why the whole "pushing smartphones" frankly scares the living hell out of me, AT&T in my area has pretty much stopped bothering to add so much as a single foot or Mbps to their DSL offerings and are instead pushing cell phones where they can make insane profits and the cableco has decided to simply gouge the customers they have instead of adding more customers and running lines. Imagine a world where you can't get on the net except with a smartphone with no tether ability? Makes the carriers happy, they can gouge away, makes the content owners happy, you won't have enough bandwidth to do anything that would piss them off, but it would royally suck for the users as you'd be stuck on these crappy little screens with no hope of getting anything better.
Yeah I learned that the hard way when I started supporting SMBs, there really isn 't anything out there that works with PDF like Acrobat. You name the reader I've tried it and with home users Foxit or Sumatra is my go to for opening PDF files but the PDFs that businesses send to each other have so damned many layers and features you just can't seem to open them with anything else reliably.
And don't even get me started on Flash, while I think its an insecure format and we'd be all better off if we pushed Adobe to open the format so a player with security in mind could be designed for it frankly HTML V5 is a piss poor half ass format pushed by Jobs to give himself and his company more control and doesn't have shit to sell it on the technical merits. Its buggy as hell, slow as fuck, sucks CPU cycles like a drunk at a minibar sucks Jack Daniels, and it doesn't even cover half the use cases of Flash like graphics and gaming. its a shitty video delivery format pushed by suits that want more control.
The problem I've always had with Adobe is...sigh...they just don't know how to make good products to go with their formats. The Flash and Shockwave formats they got from Macromedia are good formats but Adobe just doesn't have a clue on how to write a good secure player to use those formats, and that's the same problem they have with Acrobat and PDFs. All three formats are feature rich and have a hell of a lot going for them and with another company with a better track record and grasp of security frankly I don't think the thought of replacing them would ever cross anybody's mind, but Adobe? They just suck when it comes to dealing with security as TFA shows.
This is why I truly hope Adobe opens their formats, if we got a company with a better handle on security to write a light but locked down player for these formats they'd be truly great but its obvious that Adobe simply isn't up to the task. They need to stick to Photoshop and let somebody else do the players and editors.
Uhhh...Wikipedia and my own experience maybe? Citation here and I'll be the first to correct myself in that they were doing both at the same time and DVD camp went to IBM about using the format for data delivery and storage as well as looking at a video format. But I remember quite well reps coming by and trying to sell us "this great new huge backup format" while VCRs were still the dominant format by a long shot, i even bought one of the first DVD burners, it burnt at an insane for the time 4x and cost me over $300 and the discs were over $2 a pop but when hard drives were 40-80Gb being able to back up so much to a single disc was quite the feat.
But if you were working at tech firms at the time I'm frankly shocked they didn't try selling you on DVD before anybody else had really heard of it. Hell I certainly wasn't working at anyplace as huge in high tech as DEC but we got a tech demo, even got to see one of the first portable burners, it was quite impressive at the time.
Oh I'm with you there 110% Drinkypoo. When my sister was diagnosed with a terminal illness right after the birth of her second son and her husband decided 'that was too much for him" and bailed i was handed two adorable little boys under the age of two as my mother had to devote herself full time to taking care of my sister. I was lucky that mom had given me a great example so I sat there reading "Great sci-fi writers of the 70s" to them and when it came to electronics while my boys got to have all the electronic stuff they could possibly want, what with me being a geek (My sister was royally pissed that the oldest boy's first word wasn't "mama" but "MINE!" as I had snuck the controller out of his hand while he snoozed and replaced Barney Hide and Seek with Eternal Champions and he caught me) I never EVER used it as a babysitter, i used it as a learning tool.
I didn't just get educational games, I did things like took apart a hard drive and had a friend cut me a clear plastic top for it so they could see how the drive spun and wrote when they would hit save, showed them by putting their faces into DOOM levels how what you saw on the screen was controlled by loading files and scripts, I tore things apart and showed them how they work. This paid off later in life as the oldest now helps the others in his pre-med classes that don't have great computer skills and the youngest is becoming incredibly skilled with graphics.
But when I would pick them up from their friends houses or ask them how things were there....damn, just damn. Homes without a single book in them, not a single one which shocked the hell out of my boys which were reading Narnia and Harry Potter from when they were little, and parents that frankly never actually interacted with their kids! It was ALL TVs and consoles in their bedrooms and as long as they weren't "bugging" the parents whatever they did was fine. I didn't choose to have two babies dropped into my lap but the thought of just dumping two little kids in front of an idiot box and never interacting with them just horrifies me, talk about stunting their development!
But there comes a time when shitty parents or not its time to grow the hell up and accept responsibility and at 17 I think the kid is old enough to know better. Its not like there isn't tons of horrific footage of the death camps all over the net, 5 minutes in Google would have shown him that wasn't something to be using like some sort of prank. Its time for him to man the fuck up and learn what he can and can't do or frankly this little shithead is gonna open his mouth to the wrong person in college and get his ass stomped.
Not to mention this: Just think about how the world would look if he had gotten this passed in say 1972. Well we'd have no DVDs, because DVD was originally a backup medium before it was a movie medium, and of course VCRs would have never existed. Can't have an Internet because people could trade files on it, no PMPs like iPods because of course they can carry and play infringing content, if you were even allowed to have computers and iPads and smartphones they wouldn't be allowed to play any media by law unless it was protected, hell I could go on all day with things we take for granted.
I hate to have to say this but Thank the FSM for the Chinese who don't give a fuck about our IP laws because thanks to douchebags like him we are ALREADY seeing tech that should have taken over by now pushed to the corner. For an example take the media tank, your WDTVs and the like. Those should have taken over by now, because they are exactly the kind of experience folks want, just put everything in one spot where they can just push a button and watch everything instantly anywhere in the house but thanks to pricks like this one even when Real tried to sell a device that KEPT copyright protection assholes like this guy had it blocked. Now there is NO legal way to play movies on a media tank, not if it doesn't stream.
This is why I say until We, The People, get a voice at the negotiating table we should simply ignore all copyrights as the unjust laws they are. do you think Americans would have voted for 150+ year copyrights just so Disney can make another billion off old Mickey Mouse cartoons? not a chance in hell, yet that is the law. Of course these laws aren't compatible with the constitution anymore, since giving dead men 70+ years of copyrights after they die certainly doesn't "promote the sciences and the arts", all it does is promote rich old geezers who have the cash to buy up these copyrights and use them to fuck us.
Jim Sterling at The Escapist used to call pirates "dirty thieves" he made a great video where he apologizes and points out how we are getting fucked, and we are...we're getting fucked. may this douchebag DIAF, the world would be a better place if greedy corporate ball lickers weren't in it.
Hell name a SINGLE Internet word we old greybeards came up with that hasn't been butchered all to hell by folks that don't get it had a specific meaning, just one. Troll, shill, virus, its all lost its original meanings because too many who don't have a clue what they meant use them wrong constantly. That's why I don't even say words like trojan or virus anymore but just tell them "You got a bug" because as far as the public is concerned everything is a virus, and everyone that does something bad on the net is a troll. its just lost its meaning.
But they ARE doing an end run around the court, because the issue, which MSFT filed first to have decided, is whether the Motorola patents are covered under the RAND agreement that everyone signed or did they pull a Rambus and hide patents to pull out later.
If the court rules that those patents ARE covered under RAND then their entire basis for suing in Germany, which was chosen BTW because they are the East Texas of the EU and getting injunctions is trivially easy there, will be made completely moot because they will be demanding an injunction for MSFT violating patents which they already had licensed under RAND terms previously.
To use a/. car analogy it would be like you going to another state and trying to claim the right to have my car impounded because you claim I was driving without a license while ignoring that I had already filed a court case in my home state to have the entire reason my license was revoked ruled invalid. if the taking of my license was ruled invalid then you would have NO right to touch me because your case would have NO basis in fact.
If the US courts rule that the US patents, which are the ones at issue here NOT patents only filed in Germany, are licensed under RAND and MSFT had already paid their RAND fee for using them then their entire case in Germany is moot, you can't block products for not having a license which they actually do have. get it now?
Is that the one where an alien spaceship crashed and they basically built a WWII style battleship out of it?
I'll be the first to admit that anime is something i just don't "get" real well, you really have to be steeped in their culture to get a lot of that stuff,like 10,000 people paying good money to see a dancing anime hologram sing, dating simulators, or used panty vending machines if you aren't real knowledgeable about their culture you're just not gonna get it.
I don't think you'd have to use energy weapons and missiles though, have you seen that fricking railgun the USN is working on? Hell we are talking Mach 5+ and its just the test rig. if we had ships that could go FTL I'm sure that we could make those railguns shoot at something like warp 5 and having a half a dozen VW Bug sized shells filled with explosives hit your ass at warp 5? Like they said in Blue Thunder "And that ladies and gentleman is a hell of a shitstorm"
Yes but sadly we see more and more of this, sick little maladjusted fucks that decide for whatever reason YOU are the cause of some problem in their lives or the world would be better off without you and will go VERY stalkerish on you.
In fact as someone who recently had to deal with something not as sick, but creepy and weird where some asshole was hacking into a nice former customer of mine. this guy is soooo fucking bland I can't imagine how he could do anything but bore someone to death but this little prick would take over his computer and wipe his files, trash the OS, even pop up a box calling him filthy names. I have to thank the slashdot community for when i put up a list of what i had done trying to stop this guy with no luck you guys pointed out things I had not thought to check and thanks to you I was able to stop him, so thanks guys.
But what we old greybeards think of when we think of the word troll and what we are seeing now? Two totally different things. Hell I had one last year that followed me around the net for a solid year, making piles of accounts everywhere I went. For what purpose? just so he could post a response to everything I said with the sentence "Die you fat fucker DIE!". That's it, just that sentence over and over and over, across dozens of websites. While it never phased me, when you think about how much work he had to do, searching the web for every place he could possibly find where I was, spending a good 15 minutes or more making fake accounts...just for that sentence.
We are seeing more and more sick puppies out there, personally i think its just what happens when one of Gabe's fuckwads loses touch with anything other than the little bubble they create for themselves on the web. I'm sure if a shrink got a hold of this nutbag he would believe that he was actually the moral one here, that Traynor had somehow "insulted" him, dared to enter the space HE owned, or some other bullshit that to HIM would be perfectly rational, just as the cockbag that trashed a couple of years worth of data on a nice bland nobody's PC probably felt it was somehow "justified". Which just goes to show how truly warped and twisted those without a firm grasp of reality can get when they live in cyberspace.
Sorry I didn't make myself clear, not saying it would be easy, just saying it would be doable. Doable is better than impossible which is what we have on the hardware side and from the looks of a Google search for IPV6 malware the software frankly ain't coming along too well either.
Look it took YEARS with highly trained people, people we frankly don't really have in any abundance anymore, to build what we have now and make it as secure as it is. Remember what it was like in the early days? How worms would run riot and even clicking on an email could infect the system?
Sadly it looks like that is exactly what is gonna happen all over again. the software simply doesn't know how to deal with these new addresses and so it'll just let anything on through, its gonna be a fucking mess. if we were to buy some more time while the government pushed an initiative to get people into the networking field then maybe, just maybe, we could have the hardware and software ready to go and it wouldn't be such a mess.
Instead what is gonna happen is the classic free market bullshit, they'll use ISP side NATs while those sitting on class A addresses are gonna make out like bandits selling them cut up into blocks, and by the time we have to flip the switch the men and software isn't gonna be ready and its gonna be a malware paradise, you'll have Code reds running riot, what a fucking mess. We should have started an initiative 10 damned years ago and banned hardware that didn't support both but now we've made the shit stained bed and we are all gonna have to lie in it.
Oh and the routers? Haven't look at consumer routers in awhile have you? you MAY get the corporate stuff, if its still under contract, to be upgraded but I'll be my last dollar there is no way in hell to upgrade all those trendnet/zonenet/D-Link routers, just no way in hell. We are talking 2Mb of memory and if you are lucky that much flash and 200MHz ARM chips, just no way in hell to get the weak ass gear they put in those things to even work as a switch with IPV6, just not enough memory and CPU cycles to deal quadrupling the address size, just no way.
Hell look at the stuffthey are selling right now and I can tell you that's the same level of stuff you'll find in any Walmart, staples, Office max, etc. you think that CCC (Cheapo Chinese Crap) has a snowball's chance in hell of supporting IPV6? Hell I've got one of those little Trendnet routers in the shop, its cheap and does its job but they have never even released a single firmware update for the thing, think they'll care about adding IPV6 support? Its all designed for the dump and if you go to sites like WW-DRT you'll see the specs on most of thse things make it impossible to even hack them, they are so damned weak there is nothing to hack!
Exactly I didn't hear Notch say a fucking peep, not a single peep, about Minecraft on iOS, even though it is EXACTLY THE SAME as what MSFT is doing with WinRT.
I may hate appstores and walled gardens but 1 thing I hate 1000 times worse is a damned hypocrite and that is EXACTLY what Notch is. He doesn't have the balls to say boo to Apple for fear of losing his iChecks yet he'll scream about the WinRT appstore. Notch you are a hypocrite and an asshole, please go fuck off now.
That is why I always preferred my enduro over my street bike. No road where I wanted to go? no problem just cut through the weeds and the mud and keep right on going, just great fun.
As for TFA it isn't like there aren't plenty of white noise generators out there, or even software that creates nice background sounds. If it were me personally I'd just get a stereo and put in a CD of nice nature sounds and just put the thing on continuous play and be done with it.
That said the old saying "You get used to it" applies at least for me, i got a nice apt right in the center of town thanks to knowing the owner at the time but one thing they didn't tell me was that even though our town has very little crime our cops just loooove to kick on their sirens and peel out like they are Adam 12 or something, and being within 2 blocks of the station the first month was rather jarring. After that? Don't even notice them, hell now I'm more likely to be woken up by my GF piddling around in the kitchen making breakfast than I am the cops.
But if it bugs you THAT much? CD player, nature sounds, cheap and easily controllable.
What I never understood though is why every show went for the WWII "fighters and carriers" motif when I think a MUCH better comparison, when you are talking about space where you can't just turn on a dime and where you'd need thick armor to keep from getting crew blown out into space during a battle would be the classic battleship. Its big, its heavily armored, and its got several big ass cannons on swivels. Since you are in space and you aren't gonna be landing the thing you could make the bottom almost a mirror of the top and have common elevators feed the upper and lower cannons and have a constant barrage from the alternating upper and lower cannons just pounding the hell out of a target.
And since we are talking sci-fi you also have to figure in the cool and intimidation factors and I think all would agree that seeing this in space firing full broadsides with shells the size of VW Bugs racing toards your ass? Something you'd want to avoid.
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I wish I could find a link on the net to the video, it was one of those "scared straight" kinda shows in the mid 90s and they took these kids to a big pen, Riker's I think.
What I'll never forget is the warden looked at their case files and said "Most of these you can help, #3 and #14 are lost causes" and when asked he explained why. #3 was named Leroy or something like that and was a crack baby. he said "This kid has had the part of the brain that lets him visualize the future and past just wiped out, I've seen it a million times. you can't teach a person not to commit crimes if they have no concept that there is gonna be a tomorrow and they will be punished. For Leroy there is ONLY today, yesterday and tomorrow are concepts he'll simply never understand" and the second one? Pedo which he pointed out you just don't stop those with anything short of prison, once they have started preying on kids that's it.
Sure enough at the end of the show they did a follow up, and the 14 year old Pedo was already in jail for raping a 7 year old but it was leroy that would have raised the hair on your neck. he was in jail for bashing a man's head in for a leather coat and they asked him about it: "Leroy did you LIKE what you saw at prison?" no. "Then WHY did you bash that man's head in?" because he had a nice coat and I wanted it. And then they talked to the warden who said "This is EXACTLY the behavior I was talking about, Leroy has brain damage. His brain simply cannot process the concept of yesterday or tomorrow, all he knows is this very minute. How do you teach someone right from wrong when they can't understand the concept of future and past? you can't, all you can do is lock them away so they can't hurt anyone else" and watching that kid? TRULY SCARY as he really didn't understand, he just couldn't grasp the concept that things you do this minute can affect you in the future, that part of his brain will simply never work. So for the rest of his life Leroy will be a predator, because if he sees something he wants? He'll just take it as he has no concept of consequences and never will.
Thanks for the advice, never thought of dropping an email. I always support them the old fashioned way, by actually looking at the ads and if its something i might be interested in clicking on it, even if I'm not planning on buying that day. That way their metrics will show that not being a douchebag is actually raising their amount of clicks which is probably the best thing they can bring to the PHBs anyway.
Again though I have NO problem with sites using ads, as long as they aren't bitchslapping me, blocking the content, or worse blowing my ears off with some jingle horseshit. Want to put a text or even a GIF? I don't have a problem with those and if you have half a brain and target the ads logically, and by that I do NOT mean tracking I mean common sense like putting ads for geeky things like flash drives and SSDs on Ars or /. then I'll even click on them and buy if the price is right.
But the problem is the ads have gotten downright rude and insulting and targeted ads are even worse, they'll show me hundreds of ads for things related to something I bought a year ago and have no interest in now while ignoring what I'm actually on the page to fricking look at! Why am I getting ads for laptops when I'm on a page reviewing SSDs? You'd think that would give them a clue if I'm reading reviews that I was thinking of buying one but no, because I bought a netbook nearly 2 years ago and did research before I bought that is ALL the targeted ads are for. You watch, I'll buy an SSD for my netbook and for the next 2 years I'll get SSD ads.../facepalm/
Big second on that, as I was looking a year and a half ago for a netbook because I got tired of the weight of a fullsize and after trying a couple of the AMD netbooks customers had bought found they do what I needed a mobile to do....except I already BOUGHT my EEE E350 netbook not a month after I started searching, but to this day I get ads up the ass for new netbooks. Considering my last 2 laptops last I heard are still running with the people I sold them to and I often get over 5 years from a laptop? Trying to sell me one is beyond pointless and I have ZERO interest in buying another one for years,great job guys.
Sadly the things I AM interested in now, SSDs and external drives i'll end up getting through one of the Tiger or NewEgg emails because at least they show me a wide variety of tech stuff, all I'm getting from targeted ads is for shit I bought ages ago and have no need of another one. From what I can see these ads are only good a targeted what you USED to want, not what you are actually looking for now. you'd think when I'm reading review after review of SSDs they'd get the clue and realize I'm looking for an SSD to put in my netbook? Nope, just ads for more netbooks. What a giant failwhale.
But you just gave yourself the answer, if its about a TV show? Duh box sets! If it has multiple shows and books cited? Well you have a lot of fodder for the ads then don't you?
None of that changes the fact that the web is all about splitting into niches and those niches can have ads shown to them without having a dozen corps following my ass like fricking spies just to try to milk me like a damned cow for more monies! Nom nom nom! Fuck them, fuck their greed, either learn how to do old fashioned ads or sell t-shirts or something but if you can't make money without fucking over your viewers or spying on them you deserve to die.
Dude, know how many tech articles I read in a week? I remember the CONCEPTS and ideas, I don't have a damned clue how the writer wrote the phrasing. Frankly I never have to remember anyway, as the guy above you helpfully provided the link for me and since my Google Fu does sucketh that is just as well.
But this is why I probably have over a thousand bookmarks now, all compiled into various categories, because if its anything I think I'll ever want to read again or cite I pretty much have to bookmark or I'll never find it again.
Then DOUBLE the amount you pay for broadband and I'M sick of hearing anybody bitch about the costs. Sounds fair? Because thanks to the lowballing of the entire IT industry for the past decade there are not enough trained techs to do the jobs that switching to a national IPV6 would require. Hell call ANY regional carrier and ask about their IPV6 rollout plans, hell ask the larger ones like AT&T, Time Warner, Cox, what you'll get is a bunch of blank stares because they do not have the people and thus have not even BEGUN to plan.
Whether you like them or not here are some facts, 1.-The industry simply doesn't have enough trained techs with IPV6 knowledge and experience, the old guys are all retiring rather than keep getting shitty pay and long hours and the young guys have almost no experience or real knowledge because the corps won't pay the salaries required for their education and training. 2.-If the corps have to pay for the above education and training they will pass the costs onto you because heaven forbid they should actually lower profits by a single cent, why what would Wall Street think? 3.-If you were to try to switch WITHOUT the people qualified to diagnose and fix the problems that WILL arise you are gonna have a national clusterfuck, and that clusterfuck is gonna cost BILLIONS. Imagine banking sites not working, shopping sites not working, pretty much anything that isn't the government not working or working poorly.
This of course isn't counting the hundreds of millions of dollars required to replace virtually every home router and modem in the entire USA, which will ALL be heading to the landfills because they simply don't have the power in either CPU nor memory to support a quadrupling of the address space, this includes virtually all routers being sold at retail and online at this very moment (go to NewEgg and Tiger and look for yourself, nearly all being sold are NOT IPV6 capable even now and these companies will NOT be even attempting to update them, they'll just roll out new ones) and of course we don't have the manpower to go out and set up those tens of millions of IPV6 routers so pretty much all net other than smartphones will be broken. Finally you have a HUGE SECURITY PROBLEM in that most security software has NOT been tested with IPV6 and IPV6 itself is in its infancy with regards to security. Look up "IPV6 Malware" and see for yourself how the blackhats are ALREADY taking advantage of this and with a lack of software and personnel to support the changeover it'll be a malware writer's paradise.
So I'm sorry friend but you are living on fantasy island, where you can flip a switch and this will actually work...it won't. Huge chunks WILL break, tons of hardware WILL have to be thrown out which when you have a dead economy and people struggling telling them they are gonna have to buy Apple airports because nobody else is really supporting IPV6 is just bullshit, and your ISPs simply don't have people with the skills required to fix anything in a timely manner if things go wrong which they WILL go wrong, we have seen time and time again that you don't do major rollouts without serious issues popping up.
Not to mention it misses the stinking elephant corpse in the room, which is the people no longer have ANY say in copyright legislation, it is so blatantly and obviously bought with illegal bribery that its as pathetic as any third world country kangaroo court.
Since I don't know the exact numbers the Japanese have on their copyright "limits" I'll use the USA numbers which I DO know, can you show me anyone OTHER than an industry shill that would think 150+ year copyrights are a good thing? Does anybody here think if it was placed on the ballot for a national vote that people would agree to copyrights that last 2 lifetimes? If anything I would argue that thanks to the Internet making it easier than ever to sell your product that copyrights should be SHORTER than the original 25 years, closer to 15, to actual do as they were intended and promote the arts. After all is it the artists that hold these copyrights? Bwa ha ha ha! The first thing the record companies do is demand ALL rights and then fuck the artists every chance they get. Know how much Cheap Trick has gotten from iTunes? Nothing, not a cent. Thanks to Hollywood accounting Bat Out Of Hell I, the album that actually holds the record for longest album on the billboard 200 charts, actually didn't make a damn dime. Meatloaf had to file bankruptcy while fighting the company who gave him nothing for the biggest selling album in history!
So until We, The People get to actually have a voice and a vote we should ignore all copyrights that are not held by the artists. If I were given a chance to reform the system it would be 17 years and the rights could ONLY be held by the artist. They could be rented by the corps, but this rental could only be for 5 year increments and would automatically return to the artist unless the corp bought an extension from the artist. But until the day comes we actually have reform copyrights are a bad joke, they are bought by bribery by people who face no prosecution for such illegal acts and is designed to allow a handful of rich old fucks to buy up whole sections of our history and build paywalls around it. Name a famous event of the past century? Somebody has a paywall around it. It is disgusting that such illegal acts are allowed in broad daylight and when the laws are so blatantly rigged why should we follow laws bought and paid for by illegal means?
I'm sorry but that is THEIR problem because if I'm on a geeks site? DUH why the fuck are you showing me ads for fucking doilies? If I'm on a car site why in the hell are you showing me ads for flowers?
If a site is generic THEN they would have to show generic ads but the web is all about splitting people into niches and frankly it shouldn't take Einstein to figure out WTF ads you should be showing. If I'm on TVTropes? Duh DVDs! Its a no brainer.
Exactly, not everything on the net should last forever and the wayback machine is good at giving us a taste of those that have gone. Look at all those 90s sites like all those giant Geocities pages dedicated to fan fics. Now some of those things got pretty damned huge, with dozens of authors that sadly in the cases of some shows like Voyager were actually better writers than the ones on the show.
But just because a site grows large does NOT mean it should go on forever, people change, things may lose popularity, sometimes things should just be allowed to die. I mean the BeOS community was big back in the day but when the guys that ran those sites moved on? Well the horse was done dead, time to let go and pick a different OS anyway.
So I have to agree, if nobody gives enough of a damn to take over when the guy was ready to quit frankly it wasn't worth continuing. Hell I think that's one of the nice things about the web, communities can grow and change and move on to other places without restriction, so if some site dies and someone else doesn't take up the mantle then frankly there wasn't enough people caring about that to bother.
I mean if /. turned into another Gawker or EnGadget I'm sure somebody else would start up a site for actual geeks that talks about something other than consoles and cell phones and everyone would just migrate and that would be the end of that.
Well since I don't use Firefox I DO use Adblock, but if a site pledges not to hit me with flashy speaker blasting ads? I happily unblock, just as I do with Ars. If you can't respect me enough not to blow my damned ears off with some damned jingle or slap my CPU with some "punch the monkey to win an iPod" style eyesore then screw you, I really don't care.
Besides everyone is missing the elephant in the room which is we used to have sites with ads that worked just fine without tracking someone across 50 damned websites! You had a GIF or JPEG ad, if they clicked on it it took you to where the product in the pic was being sold and you got thrown a few cents for each time someone came referred from your site. Simple.
Now these assholes want to be able to follow you across the entire web, know every single place you go and what you do because "God damn it we have to monetize every second of these sheeps lives!" well fuck them, if they can't make money with the old business model then let them sell t-shirts or whatever, its not our job to bend over backwards because dumbasses can't figure out how to make money.
Its like the whole adblocking deal, I block everyone EXCEPT those that say "We promise not to be obnoxious and put flashing sound blasting shitpile ads on our site so please support us by not blocking" so you know what? I don't block those sites. but the absolute second they DO show me some obnoxious flashing speaker blasting ad? Their asses are blocked and all the pleas in the world won't change it.
Respect is a two way street and if you don't respect me or my right not to be spied upon why the fuck should I respect you or give a shit about your desire to monetize everything I do. The web was here before you, it'll be here after you're gone, please go away and stop wasting space that could be taken up by people that are NOT douchebags, thanks.
Uhhh...BAD analogy friend, because if the DoD is sitting on a class A and only using a couple of thousand addresses you could redistribute all of their unused ones and not change a single thing about how they work whereas with their first idea Lightsquared bought MUCH cheaper than normal priced communication frequencies because it was SAT ONLY and thus cheaper because you had to pay 100s of millions for the bird and launch, only Lightsquared didn't want to actually USE them for sats, they want to use them on the ground which would wipe out those that had already put up their sats" by overpowering their signals.
Now here we see them again, wanting to pay little to nothing for a band ALREADY IN USE by balloons and weather sats which would again lose their ability to communicate while Lightsquared makes out like a bandit on their new franchise. With those sitting on millions of IP addresses redistributing the ones they aren't using while leaving them...ohh lets say 10,000+ extras in case they have huge growth down the line, would not affect what they are doing now one little bit, Lightsquared would royally fuck over the ones that paid to actually use that bandwidth correctly, only for them to again make out like bandits by getting the spectrum at fire sale prices.
Please die already Lightsquared, nobody wants you, you're just trying to fuck people for your own gain, you're another VC funded leech on the ass of society and you needed to be burned off and disposed of. Either get your VC cronies to cough up the funds to buy spectrum legitimately, which of course they won't because the whole way they planned to make mad monies was by getting spectrum at fire sale prices instead of paying fair market value, or go the fuck away.
Hell I recently read an article (sorry I didn't think to save the bookmark) that MSFT was doomed in the mobile space precisely because the carriers don't want competition from Skype and are punishing MSFT for buying it by refusing to give WinPhone the same push and deals they do with the Droid phones. Considering how badly they screw you on voice and data? Certainly sounds believable to me.
This is why the whole "pushing smartphones" frankly scares the living hell out of me, AT&T in my area has pretty much stopped bothering to add so much as a single foot or Mbps to their DSL offerings and are instead pushing cell phones where they can make insane profits and the cableco has decided to simply gouge the customers they have instead of adding more customers and running lines. Imagine a world where you can't get on the net except with a smartphone with no tether ability? Makes the carriers happy, they can gouge away, makes the content owners happy, you won't have enough bandwidth to do anything that would piss them off, but it would royally suck for the users as you'd be stuck on these crappy little screens with no hope of getting anything better.
Yeah I learned that the hard way when I started supporting SMBs, there really isn 't anything out there that works with PDF like Acrobat. You name the reader I've tried it and with home users Foxit or Sumatra is my go to for opening PDF files but the PDFs that businesses send to each other have so damned many layers and features you just can't seem to open them with anything else reliably.
And don't even get me started on Flash, while I think its an insecure format and we'd be all better off if we pushed Adobe to open the format so a player with security in mind could be designed for it frankly HTML V5 is a piss poor half ass format pushed by Jobs to give himself and his company more control and doesn't have shit to sell it on the technical merits. Its buggy as hell, slow as fuck, sucks CPU cycles like a drunk at a minibar sucks Jack Daniels, and it doesn't even cover half the use cases of Flash like graphics and gaming. its a shitty video delivery format pushed by suits that want more control.
The problem I've always had with Adobe is...sigh...they just don't know how to make good products to go with their formats. The Flash and Shockwave formats they got from Macromedia are good formats but Adobe just doesn't have a clue on how to write a good secure player to use those formats, and that's the same problem they have with Acrobat and PDFs. All three formats are feature rich and have a hell of a lot going for them and with another company with a better track record and grasp of security frankly I don't think the thought of replacing them would ever cross anybody's mind, but Adobe? They just suck when it comes to dealing with security as TFA shows.
This is why I truly hope Adobe opens their formats, if we got a company with a better handle on security to write a light but locked down player for these formats they'd be truly great but its obvious that Adobe simply isn't up to the task. They need to stick to Photoshop and let somebody else do the players and editors.
Uhhh...Wikipedia and my own experience maybe? Citation here and I'll be the first to correct myself in that they were doing both at the same time and DVD camp went to IBM about using the format for data delivery and storage as well as looking at a video format. But I remember quite well reps coming by and trying to sell us "this great new huge backup format" while VCRs were still the dominant format by a long shot, i even bought one of the first DVD burners, it burnt at an insane for the time 4x and cost me over $300 and the discs were over $2 a pop but when hard drives were 40-80Gb being able to back up so much to a single disc was quite the feat.
But if you were working at tech firms at the time I'm frankly shocked they didn't try selling you on DVD before anybody else had really heard of it. Hell I certainly wasn't working at anyplace as huge in high tech as DEC but we got a tech demo, even got to see one of the first portable burners, it was quite impressive at the time.
Oh I'm with you there 110% Drinkypoo. When my sister was diagnosed with a terminal illness right after the birth of her second son and her husband decided 'that was too much for him" and bailed i was handed two adorable little boys under the age of two as my mother had to devote herself full time to taking care of my sister. I was lucky that mom had given me a great example so I sat there reading "Great sci-fi writers of the 70s" to them and when it came to electronics while my boys got to have all the electronic stuff they could possibly want, what with me being a geek (My sister was royally pissed that the oldest boy's first word wasn't "mama" but "MINE!" as I had snuck the controller out of his hand while he snoozed and replaced Barney Hide and Seek with Eternal Champions and he caught me) I never EVER used it as a babysitter, i used it as a learning tool.
I didn't just get educational games, I did things like took apart a hard drive and had a friend cut me a clear plastic top for it so they could see how the drive spun and wrote when they would hit save, showed them by putting their faces into DOOM levels how what you saw on the screen was controlled by loading files and scripts, I tore things apart and showed them how they work. This paid off later in life as the oldest now helps the others in his pre-med classes that don't have great computer skills and the youngest is becoming incredibly skilled with graphics.
But when I would pick them up from their friends houses or ask them how things were there....damn, just damn. Homes without a single book in them, not a single one which shocked the hell out of my boys which were reading Narnia and Harry Potter from when they were little, and parents that frankly never actually interacted with their kids! It was ALL TVs and consoles in their bedrooms and as long as they weren't "bugging" the parents whatever they did was fine. I didn't choose to have two babies dropped into my lap but the thought of just dumping two little kids in front of an idiot box and never interacting with them just horrifies me, talk about stunting their development!
But there comes a time when shitty parents or not its time to grow the hell up and accept responsibility and at 17 I think the kid is old enough to know better. Its not like there isn't tons of horrific footage of the death camps all over the net, 5 minutes in Google would have shown him that wasn't something to be using like some sort of prank. Its time for him to man the fuck up and learn what he can and can't do or frankly this little shithead is gonna open his mouth to the wrong person in college and get his ass stomped.
Not to mention this: Just think about how the world would look if he had gotten this passed in say 1972. Well we'd have no DVDs, because DVD was originally a backup medium before it was a movie medium, and of course VCRs would have never existed. Can't have an Internet because people could trade files on it, no PMPs like iPods because of course they can carry and play infringing content, if you were even allowed to have computers and iPads and smartphones they wouldn't be allowed to play any media by law unless it was protected, hell I could go on all day with things we take for granted.
I hate to have to say this but Thank the FSM for the Chinese who don't give a fuck about our IP laws because thanks to douchebags like him we are ALREADY seeing tech that should have taken over by now pushed to the corner. For an example take the media tank, your WDTVs and the like. Those should have taken over by now, because they are exactly the kind of experience folks want, just put everything in one spot where they can just push a button and watch everything instantly anywhere in the house but thanks to pricks like this one even when Real tried to sell a device that KEPT copyright protection assholes like this guy had it blocked. Now there is NO legal way to play movies on a media tank, not if it doesn't stream.
This is why I say until We, The People, get a voice at the negotiating table we should simply ignore all copyrights as the unjust laws they are. do you think Americans would have voted for 150+ year copyrights just so Disney can make another billion off old Mickey Mouse cartoons? not a chance in hell, yet that is the law. Of course these laws aren't compatible with the constitution anymore, since giving dead men 70+ years of copyrights after they die certainly doesn't "promote the sciences and the arts", all it does is promote rich old geezers who have the cash to buy up these copyrights and use them to fuck us.
Jim Sterling at The Escapist used to call pirates "dirty thieves" he made a great video where he apologizes and points out how we are getting fucked, and we are...we're getting fucked. may this douchebag DIAF, the world would be a better place if greedy corporate ball lickers weren't in it.
Hell name a SINGLE Internet word we old greybeards came up with that hasn't been butchered all to hell by folks that don't get it had a specific meaning, just one. Troll, shill, virus, its all lost its original meanings because too many who don't have a clue what they meant use them wrong constantly. That's why I don't even say words like trojan or virus anymore but just tell them "You got a bug" because as far as the public is concerned everything is a virus, and everyone that does something bad on the net is a troll. its just lost its meaning.
But they ARE doing an end run around the court, because the issue, which MSFT filed first to have decided, is whether the Motorola patents are covered under the RAND agreement that everyone signed or did they pull a Rambus and hide patents to pull out later.
If the court rules that those patents ARE covered under RAND then their entire basis for suing in Germany, which was chosen BTW because they are the East Texas of the EU and getting injunctions is trivially easy there, will be made completely moot because they will be demanding an injunction for MSFT violating patents which they already had licensed under RAND terms previously.
To use a /. car analogy it would be like you going to another state and trying to claim the right to have my car impounded because you claim I was driving without a license while ignoring that I had already filed a court case in my home state to have the entire reason my license was revoked ruled invalid. if the taking of my license was ruled invalid then you would have NO right to touch me because your case would have NO basis in fact.
If the US courts rule that the US patents, which are the ones at issue here NOT patents only filed in Germany, are licensed under RAND and MSFT had already paid their RAND fee for using them then their entire case in Germany is moot, you can't block products for not having a license which they actually do have. get it now?
Is that the one where an alien spaceship crashed and they basically built a WWII style battleship out of it?
I'll be the first to admit that anime is something i just don't "get" real well, you really have to be steeped in their culture to get a lot of that stuff,like 10,000 people paying good money to see a dancing anime hologram sing, dating simulators, or used panty vending machines if you aren't real knowledgeable about their culture you're just not gonna get it.
I don't think you'd have to use energy weapons and missiles though, have you seen that fricking railgun the USN is working on? Hell we are talking Mach 5+ and its just the test rig. if we had ships that could go FTL I'm sure that we could make those railguns shoot at something like warp 5 and having a half a dozen VW Bug sized shells filled with explosives hit your ass at warp 5? Like they said in Blue Thunder "And that ladies and gentleman is a hell of a shitstorm"
Yes but sadly we see more and more of this, sick little maladjusted fucks that decide for whatever reason YOU are the cause of some problem in their lives or the world would be better off without you and will go VERY stalkerish on you.
In fact as someone who recently had to deal with something not as sick, but creepy and weird where some asshole was hacking into a nice former customer of mine. this guy is soooo fucking bland I can't imagine how he could do anything but bore someone to death but this little prick would take over his computer and wipe his files, trash the OS, even pop up a box calling him filthy names. I have to thank the slashdot community for when i put up a list of what i had done trying to stop this guy with no luck you guys pointed out things I had not thought to check and thanks to you I was able to stop him, so thanks guys.
But what we old greybeards think of when we think of the word troll and what we are seeing now? Two totally different things. Hell I had one last year that followed me around the net for a solid year, making piles of accounts everywhere I went. For what purpose? just so he could post a response to everything I said with the sentence "Die you fat fucker DIE!". That's it, just that sentence over and over and over, across dozens of websites. While it never phased me, when you think about how much work he had to do, searching the web for every place he could possibly find where I was, spending a good 15 minutes or more making fake accounts...just for that sentence.
We are seeing more and more sick puppies out there, personally i think its just what happens when one of Gabe's fuckwads loses touch with anything other than the little bubble they create for themselves on the web. I'm sure if a shrink got a hold of this nutbag he would believe that he was actually the moral one here, that Traynor had somehow "insulted" him, dared to enter the space HE owned, or some other bullshit that to HIM would be perfectly rational, just as the cockbag that trashed a couple of years worth of data on a nice bland nobody's PC probably felt it was somehow "justified". Which just goes to show how truly warped and twisted those without a firm grasp of reality can get when they live in cyberspace.
Sorry I didn't make myself clear, not saying it would be easy, just saying it would be doable. Doable is better than impossible which is what we have on the hardware side and from the looks of a Google search for IPV6 malware the software frankly ain't coming along too well either.
Look it took YEARS with highly trained people, people we frankly don't really have in any abundance anymore, to build what we have now and make it as secure as it is. Remember what it was like in the early days? How worms would run riot and even clicking on an email could infect the system?
Sadly it looks like that is exactly what is gonna happen all over again. the software simply doesn't know how to deal with these new addresses and so it'll just let anything on through, its gonna be a fucking mess. if we were to buy some more time while the government pushed an initiative to get people into the networking field then maybe, just maybe, we could have the hardware and software ready to go and it wouldn't be such a mess.
Instead what is gonna happen is the classic free market bullshit, they'll use ISP side NATs while those sitting on class A addresses are gonna make out like bandits selling them cut up into blocks, and by the time we have to flip the switch the men and software isn't gonna be ready and its gonna be a malware paradise, you'll have Code reds running riot, what a fucking mess. We should have started an initiative 10 damned years ago and banned hardware that didn't support both but now we've made the shit stained bed and we are all gonna have to lie in it.
Oh and the routers? Haven't look at consumer routers in awhile have you? you MAY get the corporate stuff, if its still under contract, to be upgraded but I'll be my last dollar there is no way in hell to upgrade all those trendnet/zonenet/D-Link routers, just no way in hell. We are talking 2Mb of memory and if you are lucky that much flash and 200MHz ARM chips, just no way in hell to get the weak ass gear they put in those things to even work as a switch with IPV6, just not enough memory and CPU cycles to deal quadrupling the address size, just no way.
Hell look at the stuff they are selling right now and I can tell you that's the same level of stuff you'll find in any Walmart, staples, Office max, etc. you think that CCC (Cheapo Chinese Crap) has a snowball's chance in hell of supporting IPV6? Hell I've got one of those little Trendnet routers in the shop, its cheap and does its job but they have never even released a single firmware update for the thing, think they'll care about adding IPV6 support? Its all designed for the dump and if you go to sites like WW-DRT you'll see the specs on most of thse things make it impossible to even hack them, they are so damned weak there is nothing to hack!
Exactly I didn't hear Notch say a fucking peep, not a single peep, about Minecraft on iOS, even though it is EXACTLY THE SAME as what MSFT is doing with WinRT.
I may hate appstores and walled gardens but 1 thing I hate 1000 times worse is a damned hypocrite and that is EXACTLY what Notch is. He doesn't have the balls to say boo to Apple for fear of losing his iChecks yet he'll scream about the WinRT appstore. Notch you are a hypocrite and an asshole, please go fuck off now.
That is why I always preferred my enduro over my street bike. No road where I wanted to go? no problem just cut through the weeds and the mud and keep right on going, just great fun.
As for TFA it isn't like there aren't plenty of white noise generators out there, or even software that creates nice background sounds. If it were me personally I'd just get a stereo and put in a CD of nice nature sounds and just put the thing on continuous play and be done with it.
That said the old saying "You get used to it" applies at least for me, i got a nice apt right in the center of town thanks to knowing the owner at the time but one thing they didn't tell me was that even though our town has very little crime our cops just loooove to kick on their sirens and peel out like they are Adam 12 or something, and being within 2 blocks of the station the first month was rather jarring. After that? Don't even notice them, hell now I'm more likely to be woken up by my GF piddling around in the kitchen making breakfast than I am the cops.
But if it bugs you THAT much? CD player, nature sounds, cheap and easily controllable.
What I never understood though is why every show went for the WWII "fighters and carriers" motif when I think a MUCH better comparison, when you are talking about space where you can't just turn on a dime and where you'd need thick armor to keep from getting crew blown out into space during a battle would be the classic battleship. Its big, its heavily armored, and its got several big ass cannons on swivels. Since you are in space and you aren't gonna be landing the thing you could make the bottom almost a mirror of the top and have common elevators feed the upper and lower cannons and have a constant barrage from the alternating upper and lower cannons just pounding the hell out of a target.
And since we are talking sci-fi you also have to figure in the cool and intimidation factors and I think all would agree that seeing this in space firing full broadsides with shells the size of VW Bugs racing toards your ass? Something you'd want to avoid.