Right, except for doubleclick which can get it's fingers into a whole bunch of your cookies and then (for the finale) attach your use across several sites to your name. Completely harmless, though.
I knew only a good deal of JavaScript when I decided I was going to teach myself Perl. I went out and picked up "Programming Perl". Who better to learn from than Larry, I thought. Doh! I'm glad I have the book now but it is definately not for beginners. I'd consider it a must-have reference, though. So then I got "Elements of Programming Perl" after the/. review a few weeks ago. I love it, for the most part. I think the exercises could be emhasized a bit more, but other than that it's very clear and concise. It's well structured and easy to understand (coming from me, that's an endorsement). I highly recommend it.
How can it be illegal to manipulate cookies on your own machine? I can set up anything I'd like on my computer and if they want to read it and shove it in a db, fine. Good luck trying to get anything useful from it though.
The Salon article speaks to this somewhat. Go check it out.
Basically, it points out that besides micro-radio's prediliction for locality, many of its listeners are the "poor and disenfranchised".
Personally, I applaude this action by the FCC (about time). This is an important outlet for individuals to speak out to their LOCAL communities. Forget the "global village", I say. When you're talking to your friends and neighbors it actually matters what you say. To cross reference the Katz thing - you don't hear micro-radio operators flaming the fuck out of each other all day long. They take responsibility for what they say because their community is non-virtual, i.e. it isn't an illusion.
Not to say that slashdot isn't a "real" community - it is, in a year 2000, brave new world typ of way. But... Am I getting off topic?
I read Heavy Weather. It sucked. No edge. The old man isn't hungry anymore and it shows. I'll pass on the next one, I can tell you now. Speculative fiction or science fiction is not about strange and wonderful technologies or impending global disasters. It's about how society reacts to those situations. Then it's a reflection back on us, now. Get it Bruce? Who cares what a small group of freaks do when the weather gets weird? What happens to real people?
I see hanging out with the Wired crowd has had a severe impact on Sterling and that's very unfortunate. I think he's actually bought their techno-utopian fairytale, the poor guy. What happened to cyberpunk? That was just some silly ideas he had while he was a kid, I guess. Now he's got money and people know who he is and the future is all roses. He's so credible with that @well.com address, though. He must know what he's talking about.
The wheel was fine for awhile but now it's similar to a sharp rock as a knife - it's outdated and ill-suited to the demands of todays transportation needs. However, we're locked into its use for the time being if only for the way it's held our imagination captive on this front.
Now don't get me wrong - circles are a very important development in other areas, one of which the author mentioned - as gears, specifically. With the circle came ideas of continuous motion or action as well as higher, non-mechanical ideas (i.e. round earth, time, returning karma, you get the idea.)
Cheers to people finally standing up in Seattle and letting it be known that things are not as rosey as corporate media leads us to believe. If the voice of protest sounds unorganized or unfocused it's because the tactics of big business are working. They go about making their money. They slip a sweatshop by here. Maybe there's a little stink about it; big deal. They get away with razing forest; maybe a few people tie thenmselves to trees. Keep the subjects in factions, though, keep them separeted. Don't give them any solid target for protest, and it's business as usual. So people are groping in the dark for something to lash out at. And there's the WTO.
Hypothetically, my wife is enamoured with France. I decide I'm into it and start looking for a job in France. I know what the salary range is and I'm able to find some job listings in France. But what kind of visa is necessary for an American to work in France? What if neither of us speak the language? Why would a French corp. hire an American anyway? Has anyone dealt with this kind of thing?
Slashdot Mirror
Right, except for doubleclick which can get it's fingers into a whole bunch of your cookies and then (for the finale) attach your use across several sites to your name. Completely harmless, though.
I knew only a good deal of JavaScript when I decided I was going to teach myself Perl. I went out and picked up "Programming Perl". Who better to learn from than Larry, I thought. Doh! I'm glad I have the book now but it is definately not for beginners. I'd consider it a must-have reference, though. So then I got "Elements of Programming Perl" after the /. review a few weeks ago. I love it, for the most part. I think the exercises could be emhasized a bit more, but other than that it's very clear and concise. It's well structured and easy to understand (coming from me, that's an endorsement). I highly recommend it.
It's free - but you still have to provide a cc#. I don't want aol/TW to have my credit information.
How can it be illegal to manipulate cookies on your own machine? I can set up anything I'd like on my computer and if they want to read it and shove it in a db, fine. Good luck trying to get anything useful from it though.
The Salon article speaks to this somewhat. Go check it out.
... Am I getting off topic?
Basically, it points out that besides micro-radio's prediliction for locality, many of its listeners are the "poor and disenfranchised".
Personally, I applaude this action by the FCC (about time). This is an important outlet for individuals to speak out to their LOCAL communities. Forget the "global village", I say. When you're talking to your friends and neighbors it actually matters what you say. To cross reference the Katz thing - you don't hear micro-radio operators flaming the fuck out of each other all day long. They take responsibility for what they say because their community is non-virtual, i.e. it isn't an illusion.
Not to say that slashdot isn't a "real" community - it is, in a year 2000, brave new world typ of way. But
I read Heavy Weather. It sucked. No edge. The old man isn't hungry anymore and it shows. I'll pass on the next one, I can tell you now. Speculative fiction or science fiction is not about strange and wonderful technologies or impending global disasters. It's about how society reacts to those situations. Then it's a reflection back on us, now. Get it Bruce? Who cares what a small group of freaks do when the weather gets weird? What happens to real people?
I see hanging out with the Wired crowd has had a severe impact on Sterling and that's very unfortunate. I think he's actually bought their techno-utopian fairytale, the poor guy. What happened to cyberpunk? That was just some silly ideas he had while he was a kid, I guess. Now he's got money and people know who he is and the future is all roses. He's so credible with that @well.com address, though. He must know what he's talking about.
The wheel was fine for awhile but now it's similar to a sharp rock as a knife - it's outdated and ill-suited to the demands of todays transportation needs. However, we're locked into its use for the time being if only for the way it's held our imagination captive on this front.
Now don't get me wrong - circles are a very important development in other areas, one of which the author mentioned - as gears, specifically. With the circle came ideas of continuous motion or action as well as higher, non-mechanical ideas (i.e. round earth, time, returning karma, you get the idea.)
Cheers to people finally standing up in Seattle and letting it be known that things are not as rosey as corporate media leads us to believe. If the voice of protest sounds unorganized or unfocused it's because the tactics of big business are working. They go about making their money. They slip a sweatshop by here. Maybe there's a little stink about it; big deal. They get away with razing forest; maybe a few people tie thenmselves to trees. Keep the subjects in factions, though, keep them separeted. Don't give them any solid target for protest, and it's business as usual. So people are groping in the dark for something to lash out at. And there's the WTO.
Hypothetically, my wife is enamoured with France. I decide I'm into it and start looking for a job in France. I know what the salary range is and I'm able to find some job listings in France. But what kind of visa is necessary for an American to work in France? What if neither of us speak the language? Why would a French corp. hire an American anyway? Has anyone dealt with this kind of thing?
Please. Bowie never said that. No human speaks like that. That there's a PR Dept. talking.