It's time to declare victory and move on to some other gripe.
We would but the situation is still unstable and proper unified government is still in the delicate process of evolving and we need to stay the course and... Sorry, was reading from the Iraq copy. Er... yes, let's move on.
...George Thorogood was rushing back to the studio, overheard saying something like "baaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aad to the bone, baaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aad to the bone".
...a government that granted a known abusive monopoly which they themselves helped to create, ineffectively control, and are now helping to reestablish, because the stunningly obvious idea of sending digitized voice from a network to a phone system was given a patent.
For about two months in 1984 I worked with a couple friends on the idea of using the Covox Voicemaster as the basis of creating such a system. So stunningly obvious is not enough. Let's try amazingly hugantical ginormously stunningly obvious.
BTW, I feel 11% dumber now for having read that patent. It was that obvious and uninspired. Way to go feds. Once again, you snatch technical and cultural defeat from the jaws of victory, screwing the populace you're there to represent and defend the best interests of, because this ain't it.
Simple as this: introvert geek techie types are that way not because they inherently want boundaries and rules which is always construed to mean that deep down they wish they were more like the three piece suiters and so can be put under the corporate thumb, it is because they want to be the ones who make the boundaries and the rules because most of the rules they encounter are trivial, uninspired, and downright meaningless and seemingly put forth by pedantic and boring people of the sort who can't make their VCR stop flashing 12:00 without consulting someone like them about it.
Unfortunately, most of the rules weren't exactly made by those inept VCR owners but cribbed from their similarly inept predecessors and given the ratio of go with the flow to think outside the box, these rules work for the go with the flow crowd but are otherwise disagreeable with the think outside the box folks. So they go create their own rules with which to create their own stultifying system of oppression instead of letting someone do it for them. Oh well, at least you get really neat dice with it.
These blocks are happening, and happening frequently. They are being applied to individual IP addresses and complete ranges. These blocks are going up against web servers which host many websites because a single website hosted there offends AboveNet. On top of this, they are blocking sites which have nothing to do with spam as far as generating it goes. Why? Well like the old SORBS my guess would be blackmail. Either stop carrying content we don't like or we'll split the net up and make getting to you next to impossible. Maybe if you appease us or pay us or give us other compensation, we'll unblock you. THAT is where this is all headed without net neutrality regulations keeping them from engaging in this behavior.
If they refuse to follow net neutrality and let the users at each end take the responsibilities, then they will in short order be held responsible instead and that means every single time a sexual predator trolls a teen chat room, they will be held responsible for letting it happen and not monitoring their activities to the last zero and one and stopping them. They will be held responsible when some parent goes ballistic over finding their teen son surfed for buttsecks pr0n. When someone posts a death threat, stalks someone, posts something illegal, says something that offends someone else, they will be held responsible.
THAT is where all this is headed and if you want to play stupid and deny this, go right ahead, but some things are true whether or not you believe in them and human nature and our political and social history point it out clearly that we will go this direction. I signed up to transfer information of my choosing back and forth with other people of my choosing and they as well vice versa. We DID NOT sign up for Romper Room where network nannies all get to have a say at what I cannot see, cannot say, cannot etc.
What can be abused by one side, can be abused by all sides and just as with the odious team-up between right-wing sexually repressed anti-pron zealots to my right and frigid tempermental misandronist feminists on my left against pr0n, we're asking for all the worst instincts of ALL sides to be given free reign to interfere with the Internet.
While the geeks and nerds may think a cyberpunk warfare future of tightening controls versus noble net rebels fighting to surf is a cool idea, I don't.
Interesting form of judgement you've developed there...
Class warfare mindedness is par for the course in the/. world so I'm not sure where "interesting" applies. "Business as usual" could be substituted and make sense as in, "Business as usual form of judgement you've developed there", but it seems almost Yoda-ish in its grammar, so feel free to punch it up.
The scientific evidence not to mention the history of man long long long before industry shows conclusively that Earth has been much warmer in the past and also much colder. It has had varying cycles since long before we got here and it will be varying long after we get hit by a car while admiring our digital watches.
Whether or not we arrived on Earth, it was DEFINITELY going to get warmer than even now, and it was going to do it right around now, then go into another glacial. The Earth hasn't been Mayberry RFD for all eternity until we showed up.
After all, America's CS world is torn between teaching logic and symbolism which are the foundations of computational science but there's a very big lack of talent for expressing and expounding upon the real world applications thereof, and on the other end being hip and trendy and teaching scripting languages that are all hawt and leet. Not a lot different in the world of math and physics either. We're pushing an idea in society that if it doesn't grab your attention and have applications and ramifications so obvious that even the short attention span children of today can grap, then it is not worth it.
We should be doing everything we can to reverse this starting with trying to sell the basics in a way that is entertaining and sinks into memory. Unfortunately, the old CS material is drier than the Valley of the Kings and less entertaining than Gigli. Grand assumptions are made about what should be a priori taken as known beforehand, and when people trip they get trampled by the class. Our teaching system is NOT geared towards keeping the herd together, but leaving the stragglers behind to be preyed upon by doubt and dismay. Society reinforces their doubts and puts across to them that keeping with it isn't worth it and their labors and efforts will not be appreciated.
Sadly, the higher educational world doesn't get it any more than the mass culture world does. And on the malady plays. To think you ever wondered why so much software and computer engineering seems to either suck or be totally alien or both.
You'll also notice that scientists in general don't sell newspapers or magazines. It's the journalists whose job it is to butcher the science to sell newspapers and magazines.
Nevertheless, they live in the modern world we do and are not unaware of the power of sensationalism in science to loosen pursestrings to get paid to do not a whole lot, aka pure research. At this stage of the game where we're about three steps away from linking global warming to the supposed online pedophile predator crisis, no one should feel silly about being suspicious of anything scientists say.
Meanwhile, Johnny can't differentiate simple functions. But he will probably graduate with a degree in environmental science anyhow.
No matter how vmware & parallels dress it up, the problem here is not legality, but fear of reprisals from Apple.
This statement brings to mind images of young casually dressed men and women storming their offices with gayly decorated weapons with rainbow Apple logos and shouting grammatically incorrect and utterly meaningless slogans that nevertheless get great press and everyone forgets about it by three days out because they're too busy writing op-ed pieces on the relative social and economic costs and benefits of trying to break up Microsoft again.
Socialism and a regulated market economy are inventions of the past 100 years. Maybe it's just a total coincidence that during this time a middle class emerged, but I really doubt that.
You say that as if it is a good thing. All the middle class really are is economic addicts. Their drug is comfort and their price paid is to turn a blind eye to reality or join in with one of various competing sides but never ever standing up for their own because they're too desirous of that comfort high to even known what their own side is.
Anyone telling you of a problem will be selling you the solution for it whether or not either ever existed to begin with and by the time anyone bothers to wonder about that, we're twenty problems and solutions on into the future and really, we're more comfortable with delegating our power away to others as long as they promise us the comfort of total ignorance and utter detachment.
Gun control, abortion, voting rights, poverty, racism, sexism, every cause that you can think of was a cause of others visited on the masses as some overtly important and all-powerful issue and if you just delegate your power to whoever, whoever will take care of it for you no matter which side of whatever you thought you gravitated to. All this when all that was needed was for individuals to stop thinking like groups and start thinking like individuals one to one. Funny how the golden rule doesn't figure into any of the solutions. Or maybe that's because if any so-called issues was ever solved, there would be no need for those peddling the solutions.
All the middle class are is a resevoir of power for the power-hungry, self-aggrandizing, and self-important whether knowingly cynical or merely as self-deluded as those they seduce so easily to signing over their power of self determination. Not saying which side is right or wrong, only that the sides don't exist.
Classes are an invention of the mind and perpetuated by those with a stake in keeping the idea real in our minds and those who don't know any better, but should.
Keeping exact track is not always necessary as each and every star, pulsar, etc. which emits radiation is not exactly the same as any other. With advances in sensor technology and computational abilities it is likely we will be able to know what a given pulsar by name/designation puts out, look for signatures of the closest ones and identify against the catalog, then relate their positions as seen from Earth at the time of cataloging versus what we see now, etc...
Of course we can do this with stars as well.
Keep it on the ship? Probably not. We'd probably seed our home system with science and navigation stations manned and unmanned by the hundreds and have them broadcasting coded signals on specific intervals along with any and all needed navigational data instead. Interstellar travel is we ever make warp drive work, yeah, then we need it. Until we establish a network in the next system we achieve foothold in.
They continue giving their teens and pre-teens web cams, high speed Internet, and computers in the privacy of their bedroom and not in the family room where the parents *might* once in a while take notice of what they are up. Silly me. The family room is for cable and satellite television where a plethora of channels market sex to them right under the watchful eye of mom and dad who never think to just maybe turn the channel to Discovery Science or History Channel International.
Nope, it's that army of sex predators twisting their kids like Darth Sidious. Ooh, they've found the phantom menace...
Yeah, geek humor aside, this does remind me of the witch hunts of old, the commie hunts of the 50s, and the satanic cult hunts of the 80s. Always some nefarious group to place the blame on rather than the as usual incompetent parenting.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify rape. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify murder. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify fighting. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify violence. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify nonconformity. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify revolution. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify rebellion. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify (enter anything you are against here). They might be encouraging it.
Meanwhile, as people are off looking for pedophiles under every bed, trying to find someone, anyone, else that can be blamed for the ills of their society, their children are keeping busy watching television. They watch commercials for Bratz girls with jeans halfway down their buttocks. They see that the penultimate expression of being a woman is to have jiggly breasts and to have guys slathering like brainless drug-addled fools after them. They see that their parents are liars and hypocrites who treat relationships and marriage like a game to grow bored with and other people's hearts like things to be toyed with. They learn that sex and lust are all that their adults seem to care about.
At least there won't be any nasty pictures of fictional children having fictional sex. That at least is a consolation when Mrs. Clarkson calls up about her daughter Cindy being pregnant and naming your son as the father. And when your daughter is found taking off her clothes in front of that webcam you bought her, for some guy named Chuck in South Dakota, you can comfort yourself knowing that you were dead set against cartoon child porn.
Yup. You can sleep a lot better knowing that you had nothing to do with furthering the problems...
...along with the complete collection of every Internet posting and article ever mentioning it along with developer's commentary and activity logs going back all the way to the first announcement of it, complete with DRM by Sony and indexing system by Google.
Not every or even most practicing Christians or Jews believe the biblical creation story as literal truth. We're not all dim enough to raise the writings of ancient *human* (and thus fallible) ancestors to the level of G-d's word.
Can you get a new joke and stop beating on other people because you've still got unresolved juvenile issues from being made by mom and dad to get up early and to sit/stand/kneel on a Sunday morning?
Back in the days of DOS/WfW3.11 there were ultrasonic digitizers which used transducers to make 2D and 3D digitizers of very good accuracy for CAD/CAM work.
Already been done, already been on the market, and I even think the basics of the technology were covered in Byte back in the day.
Slashdot Mirror
It's time to declare victory and move on to some other gripe.
We would but the situation is still unstable and proper unified government is still in the delicate process of evolving and we need to stay the course and... Sorry, was reading from the Iraq copy. Er... yes, let's move on.
...George Thorogood was rushing back to the studio, overheard saying something like "baaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aad to the bone, baaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aad to the bone".
...a government that granted a known abusive monopoly which they themselves helped to create, ineffectively control, and are now helping to reestablish, because the stunningly obvious idea of sending digitized voice from a network to a phone system was given a patent.
For about two months in 1984 I worked with a couple friends on the idea of using the Covox Voicemaster as the basis of creating such a system. So stunningly obvious is not enough. Let's try amazingly hugantical ginormously stunningly obvious.
BTW, I feel 11% dumber now for having read that patent. It was that obvious and uninspired. Way to go feds. Once again, you snatch technical and cultural defeat from the jaws of victory, screwing the populace you're there to represent and defend the best interests of, because this ain't it.
Simple as this: introvert geek techie types are that way not because they inherently want boundaries and rules which is always construed to mean that deep down they wish they were more like the three piece suiters and so can be put under the corporate thumb, it is because they want to be the ones who make the boundaries and the rules because most of the rules they encounter are trivial, uninspired, and downright meaningless and seemingly put forth by pedantic and boring people of the sort who can't make their VCR stop flashing 12:00 without consulting someone like them about it.
Unfortunately, most of the rules weren't exactly made by those inept VCR owners but cribbed from their similarly inept predecessors and given the ratio of go with the flow to think outside the box, these rules work for the go with the flow crowd but are otherwise disagreeable with the think outside the box folks. So they go create their own rules with which to create their own stultifying system of oppression instead of letting someone do it for them. Oh well, at least you get really neat dice with it.
So the seriously depressed are evil, bad people?
Only those in tech support.
These blocks are happening, and happening frequently. They are being applied to individual IP addresses and complete ranges. These blocks are going up against web servers which host many websites because a single website hosted there offends AboveNet. On top of this, they are blocking sites which have nothing to do with spam as far as generating it goes. Why? Well like the old SORBS my guess would be blackmail. Either stop carrying content we don't like or we'll split the net up and make getting to you next to impossible. Maybe if you appease us or pay us or give us other compensation, we'll unblock you. THAT is where this is all headed without net neutrality regulations keeping them from engaging in this behavior. If they refuse to follow net neutrality and let the users at each end take the responsibilities, then they will in short order be held responsible instead and that means every single time a sexual predator trolls a teen chat room, they will be held responsible for letting it happen and not monitoring their activities to the last zero and one and stopping them. They will be held responsible when some parent goes ballistic over finding their teen son surfed for buttsecks pr0n. When someone posts a death threat, stalks someone, posts something illegal, says something that offends someone else, they will be held responsible. THAT is where all this is headed and if you want to play stupid and deny this, go right ahead, but some things are true whether or not you believe in them and human nature and our political and social history point it out clearly that we will go this direction. I signed up to transfer information of my choosing back and forth with other people of my choosing and they as well vice versa. We DID NOT sign up for Romper Room where network nannies all get to have a say at what I cannot see, cannot say, cannot etc. What can be abused by one side, can be abused by all sides and just as with the odious team-up between right-wing sexually repressed anti-pron zealots to my right and frigid tempermental misandronist feminists on my left against pr0n, we're asking for all the worst instincts of ALL sides to be given free reign to interfere with the Internet. While the geeks and nerds may think a cyberpunk warfare future of tightening controls versus noble net rebels fighting to surf is a cool idea, I don't.
Interesting form of judgement you've developed there...
/. world so I'm not sure where "interesting" applies. "Business as usual" could be substituted and make sense as in, "Business as usual form of judgement you've developed there", but it seems almost Yoda-ish in its grammar, so feel free to punch it up.
Class warfare mindedness is par for the course in the
does it run Windows?
Neatorama lists nine laws of physics that don't apply in Hollywood (movies and television/TV shows).
The Law of the Slashdot Effect is still shown to be inviolable.
The scientific evidence not to mention the history of man long long long before industry shows conclusively that Earth has been much warmer in the past and also much colder. It has had varying cycles since long before we got here and it will be varying long after we get hit by a car while admiring our digital watches.
Whether or not we arrived on Earth, it was DEFINITELY going to get warmer than even now, and it was going to do it right around now, then go into another glacial. The Earth hasn't been Mayberry RFD for all eternity until we showed up.
After all, America's CS world is torn between teaching logic and symbolism which are the foundations of computational science but there's a very big lack of talent for expressing and expounding upon the real world applications thereof, and on the other end being hip and trendy and teaching scripting languages that are all hawt and leet. Not a lot different in the world of math and physics either. We're pushing an idea in society that if it doesn't grab your attention and have applications and ramifications so obvious that even the short attention span children of today can grap, then it is not worth it.
We should be doing everything we can to reverse this starting with trying to sell the basics in a way that is entertaining and sinks into memory. Unfortunately, the old CS material is drier than the Valley of the Kings and less entertaining than Gigli. Grand assumptions are made about what should be a priori taken as known beforehand, and when people trip they get trampled by the class. Our teaching system is NOT geared towards keeping the herd together, but leaving the stragglers behind to be preyed upon by doubt and dismay. Society reinforces their doubts and puts across to them that keeping with it isn't worth it and their labors and efforts will not be appreciated.
Sadly, the higher educational world doesn't get it any more than the mass culture world does. And on the malady plays. To think you ever wondered why so much software and computer engineering seems to either suck or be totally alien or both.
You'll also notice that scientists in general don't sell newspapers or magazines. It's the journalists whose job it is to butcher the science to sell newspapers and magazines.
Nevertheless, they live in the modern world we do and are not unaware of the power of sensationalism in science to loosen pursestrings to get paid to do not a whole lot, aka pure research. At this stage of the game where we're about three steps away from linking global warming to the supposed online pedophile predator crisis, no one should feel silly about being suspicious of anything scientists say.
Meanwhile, Johnny can't differentiate simple functions. But he will probably graduate with a degree in environmental science anyhow.
No matter how vmware & parallels dress it up, the problem here is not legality, but fear of reprisals from Apple.
This statement brings to mind images of young casually dressed men and women storming their offices with gayly decorated weapons with rainbow Apple logos and shouting grammatically incorrect and utterly meaningless slogans that nevertheless get great press and everyone forgets about it by three days out because they're too busy writing op-ed pieces on the relative social and economic costs and benefits of trying to break up Microsoft again.
Well, it did.
The hydrogen comes from the kittens, doofus!
That ain't hydrogen you're smelling from that cat box.
I thought that it was being sent to the ISO via AIM and immediately pictured them replying, "wtfbbq?! rofl! n00bs!"
Socialism and a regulated market economy are inventions of the past 100 years. Maybe it's just a total coincidence that during this time a middle class emerged, but I really doubt that.
You say that as if it is a good thing. All the middle class really are is economic addicts. Their drug is comfort and their price paid is to turn a blind eye to reality or join in with one of various competing sides but never ever standing up for their own because they're too desirous of that comfort high to even known what their own side is.
Anyone telling you of a problem will be selling you the solution for it whether or not either ever existed to begin with and by the time anyone bothers to wonder about that, we're twenty problems and solutions on into the future and really, we're more comfortable with delegating our power away to others as long as they promise us the comfort of total ignorance and utter detachment.
Gun control, abortion, voting rights, poverty, racism, sexism, every cause that you can think of was a cause of others visited on the masses as some overtly important and all-powerful issue and if you just delegate your power to whoever, whoever will take care of it for you no matter which side of whatever you thought you gravitated to. All this when all that was needed was for individuals to stop thinking like groups and start thinking like individuals one to one. Funny how the golden rule doesn't figure into any of the solutions. Or maybe that's because if any so-called issues was ever solved, there would be no need for those peddling the solutions.
All the middle class are is a resevoir of power for the power-hungry, self-aggrandizing, and self-important whether knowingly cynical or merely as self-deluded as those they seduce so easily to signing over their power of self determination. Not saying which side is right or wrong, only that the sides don't exist.
Classes are an invention of the mind and perpetuated by those with a stake in keeping the idea real in our minds and those who don't know any better, but should.
Keeping exact track is not always necessary as each and every star, pulsar, etc. which emits radiation is not exactly the same as any other. With advances in sensor technology and computational abilities it is likely we will be able to know what a given pulsar by name/designation puts out, look for signatures of the closest ones and identify against the catalog, then relate their positions as seen from Earth at the time of cataloging versus what we see now, etc...
Of course we can do this with stars as well.
Keep it on the ship? Probably not. We'd probably seed our home system with science and navigation stations manned and unmanned by the hundreds and have them broadcasting coded signals on specific intervals along with any and all needed navigational data instead. Interstellar travel is we ever make warp drive work, yeah, then we need it. Until we establish a network in the next system we achieve foothold in.
...Websites That Kill!
Yet, despite goatse, I still live. I'm just fine. Nothing wrong here. I feel sdfjkdfas.asd';sd
They continue giving their teens and pre-teens web cams, high speed Internet, and computers in the privacy of their bedroom and not in the family room where the parents *might* once in a while take notice of what they are up. Silly me. The family room is for cable and satellite television where a plethora of channels market sex to them right under the watchful eye of mom and dad who never think to just maybe turn the channel to Discovery Science or History Channel International.
Nope, it's that army of sex predators twisting their kids like Darth Sidious. Ooh, they've found the phantom menace...
Yeah, geek humor aside, this does remind me of the witch hunts of old, the commie hunts of the 50s, and the satanic cult hunts of the 80s. Always some nefarious group to place the blame on rather than the as usual incompetent parenting.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify rape. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify murder. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify fighting. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify violence. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify nonconformity. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify revolution. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify rebellion. They might be encouraging it.
Then let's ban depictions that glorify (enter anything you are against here). They might be encouraging it.
Meanwhile, as people are off looking for pedophiles under every bed, trying to find someone, anyone, else that can be blamed for the ills of their society, their children are keeping busy watching television. They watch commercials for Bratz girls with jeans halfway down their buttocks. They see that the penultimate expression of being a woman is to have jiggly breasts and to have guys slathering like brainless drug-addled fools after them. They see that their parents are liars and hypocrites who treat relationships and marriage like a game to grow bored with and other people's hearts like things to be toyed with. They learn that sex and lust are all that their adults seem to care about.
At least there won't be any nasty pictures of fictional children having fictional sex. That at least is a consolation when Mrs. Clarkson calls up about her daughter Cindy being pregnant and naming your son as the father. And when your daughter is found taking off her clothes in front of that webcam you bought her, for some guy named Chuck in South Dakota, you can comfort yourself knowing that you were dead set against cartoon child porn.
Yup. You can sleep a lot better knowing that you had nothing to do with furthering the problems...
...along with the complete collection of every Internet posting and article ever mentioning it along with developer's commentary and activity logs going back all the way to the first announcement of it, complete with DRM by Sony and indexing system by Google.
No. I'm sorry. We cannot allow "Squirt" to enter our vernacular as a word for sending data wirelessly. No way.
SECONDED BY SUPPORT TECHNICIANS ALL ACROSS THE EARTH!!!
"My Internet is squirting hacker thingies at me!"
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That was a very long way of saying that there's still a lack of editors actually reading the submissions before they okay them.
Neveretheless, true.
Old, very old.
Not every or even most practicing Christians or Jews believe the biblical creation story as literal truth. We're not all dim enough to raise the writings of ancient *human* (and thus fallible) ancestors to the level of G-d's word.
Can you get a new joke and stop beating on other people because you've still got unresolved juvenile issues from being made by mom and dad to get up early and to sit/stand/kneel on a Sunday morning?
Back in the days of DOS/WfW3.11 there were ultrasonic digitizers which used transducers to make 2D and 3D digitizers of very good accuracy for CAD/CAM work.
Already been done, already been on the market, and I even think the basics of the technology were covered in Byte back in the day.