I think Carl Sagan preceded Moby in presenting that idea to popular culture. See Cosmos. I just re-watched this series and it's just as good 25 years after it originally aired...
The people that read through my Google search history are really going to wonder why those two phrases appear together on an otherwise innocent, idle Tuesday afternoon.
How about if we click on an or an to pause the video instead. Er, wait a second.
This patenting shit is getting to be ridiculous, to the point of absurdity.
Good thing it expires in another seven years. In the meantime, I'll continue timeshifting almost all of my TV with bittorrent and watching only the local news/weather and sometimes PBS via broadcast antenna (long live rabbit ears). Along with the hordes of others like me.
No more Sony Trinitron, instead use Azureus and VLC.
What a poorly-written article. It's like they just cruised through Wikipedia and copy-and-pasted a bunch of stuff.
Ars Technica used to be good, but now that they're making almost a half-mil a year with their subscriptions and product sales, the article quality has gone waaaay downhill. Nothing like a few bucks and minor notoriety to make a blogger fat and lazy.
that there are some pages you like to load and tasks that you enjoy doing with Firefox, and some others with Opera, and some where it doesn't matter. You'll find there are also occasional instances where it's better to be running IE (Windows Update, non-compliant video streams, etc).
I'm glad I downloaded Opera, and I now have both Opera and Firefox running simultaneously, and I will adapt my use of both to my own tastes and needs.
It's good for users to have competition in the browser marketplace.
There are definitely some cool features in Opera which I had no idea of, that I wish would be added to Firefox. And vice-versa. And IE is just a drag, at this point.
Go to your desired search page (such as froogle search, wikipedia search, amazon book search, etc.) and right-click inside the query box where you type your search keywords. Choose "Add a keyword for this search". Give it a name, and a quick keyword (such as "gi" for google image search). Then you can pop open a new tab with ^T, and in the empty location box where your cursor is then placed, type "gi fnord" and hit Enter.
Firefox encapsulates the form fields and action into the bookmark and POSTs the resulting query to the server. So you can have multiple different google searches ("gn some_news_topic", "gi some_image_keyword", "gf ipod nano", etc.)
The fastest way to get to your favorite sites is to bookmark their search form query boxes in firefox using a keyword. I can bring up slashdot or a google image search or an imdb page or a wikipedia article in new tabs, while blindfolded, with a couple of keystrokes, instead of wasting time clicking pretty widgets. You can even tell if the text you were looking for is on the resulting page by the sounds emitted by find-as-you-type.
Congratulations! You're committing "theft of communication services", or "unauthorized computer access" which are felonies.
There are some other ridiculous felonious crimes we have in the US such as allowing certain forbidden plants and fungi to grow in your backyard.
That doesn't make them morally wrong.
Last I checked you can change your mac address whenever you like. And if there is no possible way to track down the perpetrator of such a felony then there's really no way to punish the person who committed it.
My point is not that it's morally correct to libel someone, but that it's impossible to exact any retribution; instead we all need to learn to treat stuff we read on the net with more skepticism than we used to generally give printed material.
it's sorta a little bit of incentive not to run an open wireless access point, isn't it?
I think there are too many WAPs out there already. If you want to do something anonymously, and you don't care about the fate of the customer whose free wap you're using, you can go ahead and do it.
As we move towards community wireless mesh networks, traceability will become even harder. There'll be an incentive to run an open access point, because everyone in the community depends on others to do the same thing.
That leaves only the reputation of an authenticated (but still anonymous) sender, as a criterion for judging any and every piece of data that comes in over the air, such as a tiny little piece of the latest Disney movie, or a libelous rant about some has-been journalist.
I'm posting this from a freely available "linksys" wireless network in the neighborhood, from the IP address of an entity I don't know who has DSL. I can easily change their IP address by disconnecting and reconnecting their broadband router.
All from my car while waiting at the local MacDonalds drive-thru.
How exactly is anyone going to hold me accountable for what I say online?
We've recently issued free personal printing presses and the potential for efficient, unlimited redistribution to the population of the entire world. We may need to reevaluate a few things about how we treat information.
That's why listening to the radio, audiobooks, etc. is just fine - it keeps you awake and alert and it is a task which you can instantly tune out your attention. Long-haul highway driving is very different and IMHO much safer than city driving as long as you're doing things like following at a safe distance and maintaining a constantly updated mental map of your surroundings (including any vehicles nearby). This is easy to do when you're listinging to one-way delivery of content from an external source.
A passenger seat occupant beside you who is also a driver can be extremely helpful, because they'll cue you in subtle ways to things you may not otherwise notice. They're hopefully also watching the road as they're conversing with you and they'll stop talking immediately if they notice something amiss that presents a potential danger. Something someone on the other end of a phone connection can't possibly do.
I've read about studies (cant reproduce them, sorry, but they sounded reasonable) that when something unexpected happens, the reaction between ppl on the phone and normal people is basically identical. People just drop the phone (literally) and do what they have to do. Also reaction times are pretty equal, and people don't really swerve etc.
I can assure you based on personal experience that you would think differently if you are ever actually involved in an pedestrian accident. Getting hit by a car (even one moving at only ~10mph) is an experience that *immediately* makes you a much safer driver in lots of ways. I'm just glad the dude that hit me was not talking on his cell phone or I might have also been run over too.
The Driver is supposed to operate the car safely. Period.
I don't care if you're some kind of whiz-bang gamer, if you are the only person responsible for the safe operation of a huge chunk of fast moving metal, shouldn't you be concentrating overwhelmingly on that task alone? You owe it to the dumb pedestrians out there, who do not deserve to be Darwinized for making a simple mistake that ends up getting them killed because you're paying less attention than you could be.
Relatedly, and I know this is anecdotal, but I try to conscientiously observe the driver when I see someone make a mistake at an intersection (when it is safe for *me* to do so, such as when I'm already *STOPPED* and some bloody fool runs a stale yellow/red light from the lane next to me.) More often than not, they are talking on a cellphone. Or eating, or drinking.
Imagine a world where people did not inevitably resort to car analogies when trying to make a point about computers.
Over the weekend I parked my car next to a shady-looking minivan at the supermarket. I thought I locked the door, but ever since it's been driving itself around constantly, flyering windshields across the neighborhood with V14GRA ads and DDOS-ing the handicapped spaces...
Apple could really capitalize on this whole Sony Rootkit DRM fiasco by advertising iTunes as the only "safe" way to get your music - they REALLY could clean up by finding a way to enable users to buy the entire album all at once instead of individual songs, for the same price as the typical retail physical CD.
If we're going to start equipping our companion animals with electronic devices, why not have them achieve something useful at the same time. For instance, you could get any old WinCE handheld, install NetStumbler, duct tape it to his back, and let him go wardriving.
Or get several and set up a wireless mesh network using all the neighborhood strays!
If you're like me, and you have installed the SessionSaver extension, you will find that Firefox 1.5 is extremely stable on Windows XP, and you now have 50-odd tabs of pages you will read "someday soon, when I'm not on the net" saved up in other windows.
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I think Carl Sagan preceded Moby in presenting that idea to popular culture. See Cosmos. I just re-watched this series and it's just as good 25 years after it originally aired...
I, for one, can't wait to help vote that dipshit out of office next year.
The people that read through my Google search history are really going to wonder why those two phrases appear together on an otherwise innocent, idle Tuesday afternoon.
Art needs two, one to start, and one to reply.
It's meaningless (to society) unless somebody else looks at it, thinks about it, talks about it. The more, the better.
This patenting shit is getting to be ridiculous, to the point of absurdity.
Good thing it expires in another seven years. In the meantime, I'll continue timeshifting almost all of my TV with bittorrent and watching only the local news/weather and sometimes PBS via broadcast antenna (long live rabbit ears). Along with the hordes of others like me.
No more Sony Trinitron, instead use Azureus and VLC.
Sounds vaguely familiar.
GOodbye, fair karma.
Getting whacked is easy enough to avoid - don't accept a free ride on a small airplane that says SONY on the tail.
I'm glad I downloaded Opera, and I now have both Opera and Firefox running simultaneously, and I will adapt my use of both to my own tastes and needs.
It's good for users to have competition in the browser marketplace.
There are definitely some cool features in Opera which I had no idea of, that I wish would be added to Firefox. And vice-versa. And IE is just a drag, at this point.
Firefox encapsulates the form fields and action into the bookmark and POSTs the resulting query to the server. So you can have multiple different google searches ("gn some_news_topic", "gi some_image_keyword", "gf ipod nano", etc.)
The fastest way to get to your favorite sites is to bookmark their search form query boxes in firefox using a keyword. I can bring up slashdot or a google image search or an imdb page or a wikipedia article in new tabs, while blindfolded, with a couple of keystrokes, instead of wasting time clicking pretty widgets. You can even tell if the text you were looking for is on the resulting page by the sounds emitted by find-as-you-type.
There are some other ridiculous felonious crimes we have in the US such as allowing certain forbidden plants and fungi to grow in your backyard.
That doesn't make them morally wrong.
Last I checked you can change your mac address whenever you like. And if there is no possible way to track down the perpetrator of such a felony then there's really no way to punish the person who committed it.
My point is not that it's morally correct to libel someone, but that it's impossible to exact any retribution; instead we all need to learn to treat stuff we read on the net with more skepticism than we used to generally give printed material.
I think there are too many WAPs out there already. If you want to do something anonymously, and you don't care about the fate of the customer whose free wap you're using, you can go ahead and do it.
As we move towards community wireless mesh networks, traceability will become even harder. There'll be an incentive to run an open access point, because everyone in the community depends on others to do the same thing.
That leaves only the reputation of an authenticated (but still anonymous) sender, as a criterion for judging any and every piece of data that comes in over the air, such as a tiny little piece of the latest Disney movie, or a libelous rant about some has-been journalist.
All from my car while waiting at the local MacDonalds drive-thru.
How exactly is anyone going to hold me accountable for what I say online?
We've recently issued free personal printing presses and the potential for efficient, unlimited redistribution to the population of the entire world. We may need to reevaluate a few things about how we treat information.
A passenger seat occupant beside you who is also a driver can be extremely helpful, because they'll cue you in subtle ways to things you may not otherwise notice. They're hopefully also watching the road as they're conversing with you and they'll stop talking immediately if they notice something amiss that presents a potential danger. Something someone on the other end of a phone connection can't possibly do.
I can assure you based on personal experience that you would think differently if you are ever actually involved in an pedestrian accident. Getting hit by a car (even one moving at only ~10mph) is an experience that *immediately* makes you a much safer driver in lots of ways. I'm just glad the dude that hit me was not talking on his cell phone or I might have also been run over too.
The Driver is supposed to operate the car safely. Period.
Relatedly, and I know this is anecdotal, but I try to conscientiously observe the driver when I see someone make a mistake at an intersection (when it is safe for *me* to do so, such as when I'm already *STOPPED* and some bloody fool runs a stale yellow/red light from the lane next to me.) More often than not, they are talking on a cellphone. Or eating, or drinking.
Ideally I would need one to mature every week or so, for my python...
As long as you rename your cat frequently.
I just wish z8gderfgh wouldn't claw the furniture all the time.
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
<p> Just imagine a world without pagerank pirates like ** * Beatles Beatles *
I believe the system should default automatically in favor of protecting our rights as adults before we start considering the children.
Big difference...
The adults who wish to protect the children in their custody can then opt-in (and pay for) whatever safe haven/playpen schemes they wish to create.
Over the weekend I parked my car next to a shady-looking minivan at the supermarket. I thought I locked the door, but ever since it's been driving itself around constantly, flyering windshields across the neighborhood with V14GRA ads and DDOS-ing the handicapped spaces...
Spread the word, CDs make crappy presents.
If somebody gives you a CD for Xmas, simply refuse it like you would a moldy fruitcake.
FWiW, I'm yet another person who'll never buy anything from Sony, ever again.
Apple could really capitalize on this whole Sony Rootkit DRM fiasco by advertising iTunes as the only "safe" way to get your music - they REALLY could clean up by finding a way to enable users to buy the entire album all at once instead of individual songs, for the same price as the typical retail physical CD.
Or get several and set up a wireless mesh network using all the neighborhood strays!
We don't need no stinkin' municipal wifi.
If you're like me, and you have installed the SessionSaver extension, you will find that Firefox 1.5 is extremely stable on Windows XP, and you now have 50-odd tabs of pages you will read "someday soon, when I'm not on the net" saved up in other windows.
I hope I am not the only victim of this scourge.