Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.
We're already living in an Orwellian society. The war is over, we lost. All it took was two smoking ruins for everyone to freely give over their rights to the government in the name of safety. You really think they can't trace you NOW? LOL, besides, why should we make it easier? I already got a face, I already got DNA, why give them something else to track me by?
They will never HAVE to recycle them. They could just add more digits to the number for future generations at some point when this is necessary. It'll help stimulate the economy with all the coding changes that will need to be done, like Y2K.
My only question is will Luke Perry be available to play the role of Kirk?
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I would definitely give out my password... and other personal data, just for a bit of candy. Heck, I'd do it for free. I just wouldn't give them the correct password. I'd also make sure that the personal data I gave them was total BS.
So how do we know that the seemingly credulous participants in the survey weren't lying?
Well I got good news and bad news. Good news is, your information is safe. Bad news is... that wasn't chocolate you ate.
When I use the WOW patcher it uploads at about 50k per second, while downloading about 100k per second. And if I do not close it, it continues to upload after it's done downloading.
Installing Firefox = $0.
Installing Adblock = $0.
Installing Flashblock = $0.
Experiencing the internet without ads: Priceless.
There are some things money can't buy. For everyone else, there's Internet Explorer.
From the post (can't read the article right now): Voodoo Extreme has the word that the E3 show space has already sold out in anticipation of what is likely to be a momentous expo, "...with a show floor the size of 2,700 city blocks, an unparalleled business conference program, and more than 400 exhibitors from 87 countries."
2,700 CITY BLOCKS?!
That's wack. Most cities don't have 2,700 city blocks. and Besides that, if they have 400 exibitors, that would mean each exibit takes up an average of 6.75 city blocks! That's some frickin' HUGE exibits!
I've been to E3 and it's big, but it ain't THAT big.:)
Is that everyone just goes along with the original post that Troy was a crappy film. I liked it. It was entertaining. It wasn't anything great or spectacular but it was watchable. There have certainly been much worse films.
Didn't pop anything for me. I'm using FF 1.01 FlashBlock and AdBlock, and some tabbed browing things (was opening in a tab, not a new window). I haven't done anything in config:about. I did not accept a cookie from the site. I did have one web site the other day that managed to get something popped up but it wasn't exactly a pop-up window -- it did act kind of like one. But at least 99.9% of pop-ups are currently getting blocked by my setup.
That would just mean the products would still be there and being sold, but the EU couldn't tax it anymore because it's all black market now. Microsoft probably wouldn't be making any money on it either, but essentially this would push Europe over into a situation like we have in Asia.
If you want a totally open community, go to USENET. You can post whatever you want, people can respond any way they want. What you get at Slashdot, hopefully, is less idiots. Or at the very least, idiots that are harder to spot. Look at K5, a site I once enjoyed reading. The "community" there has slowly but surely become dominated by a bunch of popular trolls and now you get stupid aricles on the front page that in USENET would get the poster killfiled in a heartbeat. And this is a "democratic" site, where the readership supposedly votes on what gets to the front page.
I simply refuse to watch TV anymore due to the 15+ minutes of commercials to watch a one hour show.
So I'm not really sure what the broadcasters hope to gain, other than trying to protect their advertising revenue as they lose eyeballs to people who are tired of the noise level on broadcast TV.
Look, advertisement is the current way these shows get paid for. If you're not watching the ads, you're not really a "customer" of the TV show producer anyway, so why should they care if you get to see their show or not? The thing is, if enough people can readily bypass the ads, then those ads lose value to the advertiser, and so they pay less money for them, and so the TV producers get to make fewer shows or make shows that have lower production values. Crappier actors. Crappier writers. Crappier crap. So in a sense, by supporting piracy, you're killing off any chances for good television shows to be created. You're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if TV networks started offering their shows on the internet to download, either as ad supported or as pay-per-show or something, I think a lot of broadband users would jump right onboard. They are clinging to an obsolete technology/business model and ignoring the fact that a) we live in a VERY small world nowadays, it makes no sense to try and release something in the USA and not the UK or the rest of the Enlgish speaking world, and b) technology is capable of doing some incredible things for content delivery that they aren't servicing, so naturally, like in the days of prohibition, that market still gets serviced, but it's being done underhandedly.
Yeah, this is news-worthy. An idiot can infect his PC if he lets untrusted code run on his computer. Wow, that's QUITE a story! This up next: Dihydrogen Monoxide kills! Stay tuned!
Umm, Microsoft already has added a feature to allow people to block certain types of ads in their latest IE version.
IMHO, Web advertisers killed themselves. It wasn't enough to have little banners at the tops of pages. No, they had to be BLINKING ads. They had to be "false window" ads to make users think they got some kind of message from their OS. They had to be ANIMATED! 5 MILLION TECHNICOLOR QUADROPHONIC BLASTING IN YOUR FACE ADS!!!
So now, as a result, we block their stupid ass ads. Now we don't even see the ads that we once might have actually clicked on, because dumbasses thought it was better to try and annoy us rather than let us decide what to pay attention to and what not to.
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Looks like shark, tastes like people.
Funny, I was going to say that it tasted like Soylent Green. Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Yeah, I remember Sole Survivor, and it was an action game, not an RTS. It just used the C&C units.
So what does this prove? ;)
Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.
We're already living in an Orwellian society. The war is over, we lost. All it took was two smoking ruins for everyone to freely give over their rights to the government in the name of safety. You really think they can't trace you NOW? LOL, besides, why should we make it easier? I already got a face, I already got DNA, why give them something else to track me by?
They will never HAVE to recycle them. They could just add more digits to the number for future generations at some point when this is necessary. It'll help stimulate the economy with all the coding changes that will need to be done, like Y2K.
My only question is will Luke Perry be available to play the role of Kirk?
I would definitely give out my password... and other personal data, just for a bit of candy. Heck, I'd do it for free. I just wouldn't give them the correct password. I'd also make sure that the personal data I gave them was total BS. So how do we know that the seemingly credulous participants in the survey weren't lying?
Well I got good news and bad news. Good news is, your information is safe. Bad news is... that wasn't chocolate you ate.
When I use the WOW patcher it uploads at about 50k per second, while downloading about 100k per second. And if I do not close it, it continues to upload after it's done downloading.
Guess you're not playing World of Warcraft over the university network. You need P2P to patch*.
My advice: pick a better university. One that is there to educate, not regulate.
* yes, I realize that techinically you can disable the P2P portion of the patcher, if you want to wait forever to get you patch.
I'm not saying designer babies are an idea I'm completely comfortable with, but it's an interesting point to discuss nonetheless.
I'm only comfortable with designer babies if they are Calvin Klein babies. The Ralph Lauren babies cry too much.
All Your Language Are Belong to US.
HA HA HA Make your time!
Installing Firefox = $0. Installing Adblock = $0. Installing Flashblock = $0. Experiencing the internet without ads: Priceless. There are some things money can't buy. For everyone else, there's Internet Explorer.
Welcome to Amazon.Com! According to your DNA sample on file, the following list of items should meet your approval:
From the post (can't read the article right now):
:)
Voodoo Extreme has the word that the E3 show space has already sold out in anticipation of what is likely to be a momentous expo, "...with a show floor the size of 2,700 city blocks, an unparalleled business conference program, and more than 400 exhibitors from 87 countries."
2,700 CITY BLOCKS?!
That's wack. Most cities don't have 2,700 city blocks. and Besides that, if they have 400 exibitors, that would mean each exibit takes up an average of 6.75 city blocks! That's some frickin' HUGE exibits!
I've been to E3 and it's big, but it ain't THAT big.
Is that everyone just goes along with the original post that Troy was a crappy film. I liked it. It was entertaining. It wasn't anything great or spectacular but it was watchable. There have certainly been much worse films.
You Canadians got Bob & Doug McKenzie, what more do you want?!
Didn't pop anything for me. I'm using FF 1.01 FlashBlock and AdBlock, and some tabbed browing things (was opening in a tab, not a new window). I haven't done anything in config:about. I did not accept a cookie from the site. I did have one web site the other day that managed to get something popped up but it wasn't exactly a pop-up window -- it did act kind of like one. But at least 99.9% of pop-ups are currently getting blocked by my setup.
That would just mean the products would still be there and being sold, but the EU couldn't tax it anymore because it's all black market now. Microsoft probably wouldn't be making any money on it either, but essentially this would push Europe over into a situation like we have in Asia.
If you want a totally open community, go to USENET. You can post whatever you want, people can respond any way they want. What you get at Slashdot, hopefully, is less idiots. Or at the very least, idiots that are harder to spot. Look at K5, a site I once enjoyed reading. The "community" there has slowly but surely become dominated by a bunch of popular trolls and now you get stupid aricles on the front page that in USENET would get the poster killfiled in a heartbeat. And this is a "democratic" site, where the readership supposedly votes on what gets to the front page.
It's not windmills. They are doing this just to get slashdotted. They need constant exposure and generating "controversy" helps generate sales.
I simply refuse to watch TV anymore due to the 15+ minutes of commercials to watch a one hour show.
So I'm not really sure what the broadcasters hope to gain, other than trying to protect their advertising revenue as they lose eyeballs to people who are tired of the noise level on broadcast TV.
Look, advertisement is the current way these shows get paid for. If you're not watching the ads, you're not really a "customer" of the TV show producer anyway, so why should they care if you get to see their show or not? The thing is, if enough people can readily bypass the ads, then those ads lose value to the advertiser, and so they pay less money for them, and so the TV producers get to make fewer shows or make shows that have lower production values. Crappier actors. Crappier writers. Crappier crap. So in a sense, by supporting piracy, you're killing off any chances for good television shows to be created. You're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if TV networks started offering their shows on the internet to download, either as ad supported or as pay-per-show or something, I think a lot of broadband users would jump right onboard. They are clinging to an obsolete technology/business model and ignoring the fact that a) we live in a VERY small world nowadays, it makes no sense to try and release something in the USA and not the UK or the rest of the Enlgish speaking world, and b) technology is capable of doing some incredible things for content delivery that they aren't servicing, so naturally, like in the days of prohibition, that market still gets serviced, but it's being done underhandedly.
Yeah, this is news-worthy. An idiot can infect his PC if he lets untrusted code run on his computer. Wow, that's QUITE a story! This up next: Dihydrogen Monoxide kills! Stay tuned!
Unfortunately, stupid people can get lawyers too. Sometimes BE lawyers.
Are you sure this was AOL doing that? I do remember Prodigy had a huge stink about this way back around that time.
Umm, Microsoft already has added a feature to allow people to block certain types of ads in their latest IE version.
IMHO, Web advertisers killed themselves. It wasn't enough to have little banners at the tops of pages. No, they had to be BLINKING ads. They had to be "false window" ads to make users think they got some kind of message from their OS. They had to be ANIMATED! 5 MILLION TECHNICOLOR QUADROPHONIC BLASTING IN YOUR FACE ADS!!!
So now, as a result, we block their stupid ass ads. Now we don't even see the ads that we once might have actually clicked on, because dumbasses thought it was better to try and annoy us rather than let us decide what to pay attention to and what not to.