One million new domains?! Eeek! Don't worry, we can still restrict pr0n to just the.xxx domain and happily dance with our properly clothed children in the meadow of Puritanical safety which is.[com|net|org|edu]
Or something like that. You Europeans are with us on pr0n, right? China? Ok. Russia!?!?!!
Malcolm Gladwell on Tooth Decay and US Health Care
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* Gmail is smart about hiding quoted text and emails i've seen. This rocks. Somehow it even knows the 1% of cases where I actually do want to see the quoted text. I have no idea how.
They indexed your mind. They're testing it out with a subset of users. It's beta.
Meh. My trusty Radio Shack Robie Sr. has been fetching my beer (well, cokes, when I was younger) for twenty years. His cassette player (on which programs are stored) is getting a little rusty though.
This money is coming from the Mozilla Foundation, which makes serious dough from google searches run via the firefox browser's default start page and the default search engine field. So use firefox, hit CTRL-k to search with google, and keep it going.
It should be relatively easy to identify victims of child abusers (after all, somebody is bound to know them). People could anonymously access the images (which are evidence of criminal conduct) through freenet, sanitize the nasty parts of the images and post the victims' faces elsewhere for people to recognize (like on milk cartons), and then we could anonymously tip off the authorities, who could then prosecute and convict the adults who abused them.
True dat. The Simpsons has jumped the shark. It's over. Nothing lasts forever.
What I'm waiting for is the next one, the show that only people with bittorrent and their friends actually know about at first, but which gets so popular so quickly that the traditional media organizations find themselves reporting about it without actually understanding it. I think Lost had that kind of potential, but it wasn't quite the right time.
What the world needs is maybe a participatory TV show, that people can consume and maybe even play a part in creating, without need for the big networks. The first one of those we see will be revolutionary. And then we'll see more and more. It's getting easier for people to create their own content, and distributing it worldwide is now trivially simple and free. If you're the CEO of a big media corporation, this is terrifying. If you're a random human with a few friends and a net connection, it's a good time to yank our culture back and return it to the hands of the people who create it.
But I still like to watch M*A*S*H re-runs occasionally. They're funny.
This is the only thing that's really keeping me from switching over completely to openoffice. It's sort of annoying that my old legacy xls files and doc files get indexed by google desktop search, while everything new I create and everything I re-save in openoffice (ods/odt) format, doesn't get indexed. I really wish google would get with it and fix that. Like, today. OMG they don't even support an OPEN SOURCE format LOL!!!1
Disclaimer: This post is entirely serious and has nothing to do with invisible pink unicorns.
I'm pretty sure that if you can come up with some vaguely useful content on mesothelioma, you can get USD 40-50.00 per click from the lawyers. Google gets a cut of that. Each click on a single valuable ad will pay for a lot of free wi-fi.
The game is to get your site into the top couple of links of actual results, and then display ads on your content pages upon which random users will inevitably click.
I'm not sure why I haven't gotten involved in this myself (to pay the rent), except that it smells slightly evil.
As I've stated previously here, I cannot conceive how Google nor anyone else plans to compete with the existing "linksys" free wi-fi monopoly.
I don't like monopolies, but linksys is free, ad-free, and conveniently ubiquitous. I sometimes have to deliberately tell my PC to connect to my own secured wireless AP so I can get to my files. It's almost annoying.
The current copyright and patent regime is simply all about the rich and powerful maintaining control and power over the general public, which suddenly has gained access to a new and better communications medium (the Internet) which, if allowed to function unfettered, democratizes society and indeed threatens their status quo.
The only way for the proles to fight patents and copyrights is to ignore them. This is, of course, impossible if there are only a few printing presses or factories that exist. But now there are more than a billion printing presses (everyone can publish and discuss ideas on the web); there are a probably 500 million CD burners in the world (wild guess) to pass around music and video, and we can even do better than that just by sharing data directly over the net.
The Internet is like the next evolution of the printing press. Gutenberg's machine took away the power of the learned few to disseminate information. The Internet represents the natural evolution of that capability, and more.
The next step will be the dissemination of the ability to manufacture at the molecular level in your house, and then on your desktop. If you don't believe that's going to happen, consider the fact that anyone in the world with a net connection can read this posting seconds after I submit it, and how wildly that would blow your mind if you lived at the time of the invention of the printing press.
This temporary nonsense with patents and copyrights will be just that, temporary.
this isn't about optimized diets, it's about being able to eat for pleasure and not suffering the consequences. our bodies seek out fatty foods and stores the extra energy because it was needed a long time ago. with the current level of abundance (in some parts of the world), we no longer eat for just sustianance. we eat for pleasure also. just look at the types of things we eat and the quantiy we eat. the body doesn't really say "enough of this particular food".
"Eating for pleasure"? If you eat a quart of ice cream or a big bag of potato crisps or a slab of bacon "for pleasure", that's like huffing butane. Eat a slice of bacon, a small dish of ice cream for pleasure, with other stuff that's good for you and you will find the whole experience to be pleasurable.
I love caffeinated soda but if I chug two liters of Code Red, I know I'll get sick from the excess caffeine or sugar. So I drink a couple ounces and stop. Having more is just stupid.
All corn is genetically modified. Maize was domesticated thousands of years ago in a process of natural genetic modification. I'm not convinced that our recent addition of resistance to specific herbicides or insect pests is more significant than 10,000 years of gradual change by artificial selection. And all sorts of crazy genetic modifications (via viruses, cross-species pollination, etc.) take place naturally under the radar of our current understanding and observation. It's still corn.
Is it just me, or are we trying to over-optimize our diets? Why not just try to eat what we evolved to eat, what you in particular tolerate well, whatever makes your body run reasonably well.
You can devote a silly amount of time trying to eat an optimal, low-calorie, lowfat, high-protein, perfectly-whatever sort of diet.
What does that gain you? Is all that time and energy worth it, when, if you get it right, you'll probably just die of something else instead? Sheesh, live a little. Have some bacon once in awhile, have some ice cream for dessert now and then. If you eat too much of something, your body will let you know anyway.
Respect your body's intuition, and get some exercise. There's millions of years of research to back that up.
The general public is starting to gain an awareness of how bad things have gotten with the current patent/copyright regime. We have the recent RIM/NTP debacle, we have a NYT op-ed piece by Michael Crichton. It's a start. Oh sorry, start is patented. It's a beginning.
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Or something like that. You Europeans are with us on pr0n, right? China? Ok. Russia!?!?!!
Go ahead, mod me offtopic.
And if you can't outrun them you can just kick them and they'll fall over. Oh wait...
They indexed your mind. They're testing it out with a subset of users. It's beta.
Sorry, I had to :)
Meh. My trusty Radio Shack Robie Sr. has been fetching my beer (well, cokes, when I was younger) for twenty years. His cassette player (on which programs are stored) is getting a little rusty though.
Take acidwarp.exe, zonerings, deoxy.org ? Oh wait...
This money is coming from the Mozilla Foundation, which makes serious dough from google searches run via the firefox browser's default start page and the default search engine field. So use firefox, hit CTRL-k to search with google, and keep it going.
Or one of these.
All with the help of freenet. Sounds good to me.
What I'm waiting for is the next one, the show that only people with bittorrent and their friends actually know about at first, but which gets so popular so quickly that the traditional media organizations find themselves reporting about it without actually understanding it. I think Lost had that kind of potential, but it wasn't quite the right time.
What the world needs is maybe a participatory TV show, that people can consume and maybe even play a part in creating, without need for the big networks. The first one of those we see will be revolutionary. And then we'll see more and more. It's getting easier for people to create their own content, and distributing it worldwide is now trivially simple and free. If you're the CEO of a big media corporation, this is terrifying. If you're a random human with a few friends and a net connection, it's a good time to yank our culture back and return it to the hands of the people who create it.
But I still like to watch M*A*S*H re-runs occasionally. They're funny.
Thank you. I was just lazy. That will do nicely.
n/t
This is the only thing that's really keeping me from switching over completely to openoffice. It's sort of annoying that my old legacy xls files and doc files get indexed by google desktop search, while everything new I create and everything I re-save in openoffice (ods/odt) format, doesn't get indexed. I really wish google would get with it and fix that. Like, today. OMG they don't even support an OPEN SOURCE format LOL!!!1
Disclaimer: This post is entirely serious and has nothing to do with invisible pink unicorns.
Where do you fnord want go today?
The game is to get your site into the top couple of links of actual results, and then display ads on your content pages upon which random users will inevitably click.
I'm not sure why I haven't gotten involved in this myself (to pay the rent), except that it smells slightly evil.
I don't like monopolies, but linksys is free, ad-free, and conveniently ubiquitous. I sometimes have to deliberately tell my PC to connect to my own secured wireless AP so I can get to my files. It's almost annoying.
BTW how *does* linksys make their money, anyway?
The only way for the proles to fight patents and copyrights is to ignore them. This is, of course, impossible if there are only a few printing presses or factories that exist. But now there are more than a billion printing presses (everyone can publish and discuss ideas on the web); there are a probably 500 million CD burners in the world (wild guess) to pass around music and video, and we can even do better than that just by sharing data directly over the net.
The Internet is like the next evolution of the printing press. Gutenberg's machine took away the power of the learned few to disseminate information. The Internet represents the natural evolution of that capability, and more.
The next step will be the dissemination of the ability to manufacture at the molecular level in your house, and then on your desktop. If you don't believe that's going to happen, consider the fact that anyone in the world with a net connection can read this posting seconds after I submit it, and how wildly that would blow your mind if you lived at the time of the invention of the printing press.
This temporary nonsense with patents and copyrights will be just that, temporary.
"Eating for pleasure"? If you eat a quart of ice cream or a big bag of potato crisps or a slab of bacon "for pleasure", that's like huffing butane. Eat a slice of bacon, a small dish of ice cream for pleasure, with other stuff that's good for you and you will find the whole experience to be pleasurable.
I love caffeinated soda but if I chug two liters of Code Red, I know I'll get sick from the excess caffeine or sugar. So I drink a couple ounces and stop. Having more is just stupid.
All corn is genetically modified. Maize was domesticated thousands of years ago in a process of natural genetic modification. I'm not convinced that our recent addition of resistance to specific herbicides or insect pests is more significant than 10,000 years of gradual change by artificial selection. And all sorts of crazy genetic modifications (via viruses, cross-species pollination, etc.) take place naturally under the radar of our current understanding and observation. It's still corn.
You can devote a silly amount of time trying to eat an optimal, low-calorie, lowfat, high-protein, perfectly-whatever sort of diet.
What does that gain you? Is all that time and energy worth it, when, if you get it right, you'll probably just die of something else instead? Sheesh, live a little. Have some bacon once in awhile, have some ice cream for dessert now and then. If you eat too much of something, your body will let you know anyway.
Respect your body's intuition, and get some exercise. There's millions of years of research to back that up.
Dude, it's Friday night. You're reading and posting to slashdot. You need to get a life. Oh wait...
The general public is starting to gain an awareness of how bad things have gotten with the current patent/copyright regime. We have the recent RIM/NTP debacle, we have a NYT op-ed piece by Michael Crichton. It's a start. Oh sorry, start is patented. It's a beginning.
since you're not a subscriber, your tagging has no effect.
I haven't read their homepage, though...