You mispelled forced:...are you liable for any crap that happens because your software is buggy? Standard EULA, summary, "Whatever happens to you because you're FORCED to use our software, SUCKS BEING YOU!"
On the right hand side, for instance of that moon landing page, click "Download". Pick iPod or PSP so you get an actual mp4 instead of a crappy google video player link.
I think that the US Government is past the point of no return on the propaganda thing. It depends on two concepts: that the rest of the world trusts the good things that they hear about America, and that the rest of the world isn't smart enough to find out the truth themselves.
I'd wager a guess that most of the people who care enough to pay attention to the propaganda war have probably figured out its rigged. In fact, since this is so well known (Hell, the government is even *admitting* it these days?!), it can only be serving to darken and discolour any actual real positive information that may be out there.
What they really need to do is start using truth. There *are* still enough good things about the United States to be proud of. Unfortunately, our arrogance tends to obscure that. We're like the mean guy at the party that won't shut up.
If it isn't likely to turn around and be immediately salable, turn around and put it on the web. I've found that doing the extra (minimal) effort of bundling up and organizing the pieces that is necessary for web presentation really does wonders over my previous storage scheme (put it on a cd, then lose the cd).
I've got about a year's worth of random stuff thus rescued now, even as I kick myself over the things I know I wrote but can't find anymore. For what its worth: Here it is
... If they go through with the 'purchased content is locked to a specific player' trick, I won't be buying one. I don't care how many formats it will play or how many Metal Gear's come out. The horribly low sellback value of videogames etc already makes me feel like I've been taken advantage of, I'm not going to support anything that makes that market worse.
Also, I think a nice attention-getter for the survey would be to get it slashdotted. Generally, I give about 75 points for a great article. If someone can get the survey on Slashdot, I will give you 250 points. As you all know, we have some incredible stuff for which you can redeem your points.
Its only true in the way that you will be mugged less if you walk naked down one back alley every night instead of twenty. Go ahead and get the faster connection, and get a hardware device (nat box at least, a real firewall would be better though) between you and your uplink line, and you'll be better off than you were before. You can't do that (using common hardware) with your modem in the first place.
is it 2x more? 3x more? Maybe 5(log n)x^2 more? sin(cos(log (pi) * -1/2)) + e? More importantly, how much has the standard deviation moved from previous years to this one?
... when there aren't any Xbox's to play them on. I've seen shelves and shelves and shelves of Xbox 360 games for *weeks* now. The '07 sports stuff might well be current before 360's are commonly available.
This will never fly, and not for the reasons we would hope for.
Here are the scenarios:
1) Chip reports stuff, but data stream is wide open, so middlemen can change whatever they want.
2) Chip reports stuff, but with shitty encryption so the gov't can still do its wiretaps and echelon won't break. System is hacked within a couple days and the whole 'chip' idea becomes worthless.
3) Chip reports stuff, but with robust encryption. The site you are talking to knows who you are, but people between you and them can't sniff your actions other than knowing that 'some sort of communication took place'.
Plus variations. This could actually make webs of trust (a la the direction that Freenet appears to be going) more secure, since you know that your neighbors haven't been man-in-the-middled.
0000000000000000 - (lameness filter 0000000000000010 - sure is great 0000000000000000 - there are carrots 0000000000000000 - on my plate 0000000000000000 - I have a buick 0000000000000000 - which I hate 0000000000000000 - I cut my kittens 0000000000000000 - into bait 0000000000000000 - la la la la 0000000000000000 - lameness filter 0000000000000000 - is this enough yet? 0000000000000000 - I realize the kitten line 0000000000000000 - may be a bit offensive 0000000000000000 - I'm a supporter of felinism, I swear 0100000000000010 - I just think that a kitten's place 0000000000000001 - is in the kitchen)
I don't see the big deal. How is this one of the big puzzles in computer science again?
Has anybody written an IDE plugin yet to sign comments? You could for instance have a hash that uniquely identifies comment lines 10-20 and code lines 30-70 as the a 'set' of data that is required to match. Then if the hash of either section changes, flag it as a problem until the hash is regenerated.
Am I the only one who *hates* the new onion? It turned a more-or-less-resembling-newsprint site into an unreadable mess of columns without any clear design to it. It looks like they just took all the content and shoved it together without any differentiation between the different things.
It was much more readable when you could easily scan only to the parts you normally read. Further, I think the 'push content below the fold' tactic that they seem to have employed is just an unsightly attempt to increase ad revenue down there.
They've lost a reader in me, anyway. The Onion is now a chore to read. Good job.
New York officials also annouced plans to close public schools to anyone under 18. They made this decision after realizing that child predators know that children like to play unsupervised in schools. When asked about this decision, officals replied "We need to be vigilant to protect our children."
A progressive company with fairly reasonable takes on copyright and employment that isn't going to be lobbying from a position of entitlement-because-we've-always-made-money-the-sa me-way? They'll be so lonely... Nobody will want to get drunk on the steps of the Capitol with them except the Kennedy's.
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You mispelled forced: ...are you liable for any crap that happens because your software is buggy? Standard EULA, summary, "Whatever happens to you because you're FORCED to use our software, SUCKS BEING YOU!"
(continues screaming, see above)
Err... Saturn is his father.
On the right hand side, for instance of that moon landing page, click "Download". Pick iPod or PSP so you get an actual mp4 instead of a crappy google video player link.
How do you get home from the library?
I think that the US Government is past the point of no return on the propaganda thing. It depends on two concepts: that the rest of the world trusts the good things that they hear about America, and that the rest of the world isn't smart enough to find out the truth themselves.
I'd wager a guess that most of the people who care enough to pay attention to the propaganda war have probably figured out its rigged. In fact, since this is so well known (Hell, the government is even *admitting* it these days?!), it can only be serving to darken and discolour any actual real positive information that may be out there.
What they really need to do is start using truth. There *are* still enough good things about the United States to be proud of. Unfortunately, our arrogance tends to obscure that. We're like the mean guy at the party that won't shut up.
Congress envoked Godwin's Law. Now this whole thing is going to peter out and the companies are going to come out blameless.
If it isn't likely to turn around and be immediately salable, turn around and put it on the web. I've found that doing the extra (minimal) effort of bundling up and organizing the pieces that is necessary for web presentation really does wonders over my previous storage scheme (put it on a cd, then lose the cd).
I've got about a year's worth of random stuff thus rescued now, even as I kick myself over the things I know I wrote but can't find anymore. For what its worth: Here it is
You mean Graphic Novels? I hear some of them are edgy and grown-up. Like Batman in the Bible.
... If they go through with the 'purchased content is locked to a specific player' trick, I won't be buying one. I don't care how many formats it will play or how many Metal Gear's come out. The horribly low sellback value of videogames etc already makes me feel like I've been taken advantage of, I'm not going to support anything that makes that market worse.
From TFA:
Also, I think a nice attention-getter for the survey would be to get it slashdotted. Generally, I give about 75 points for a great article. If someone can get the survey on Slashdot, I will give you 250 points. As you all know, we have some incredible stuff for which you can redeem your points.
Nothing remarkable? I'm crushed. I thought my IP address was unique :'(
Its only true in the way that you will be mugged less if you walk naked down one back alley every night instead of twenty. Go ahead and get the faster connection, and get a hardware device (nat box at least, a real firewall would be better though) between you and your uplink line, and you'll be better off than you were before. You can't do that (using common hardware) with your modem in the first place.
Article is missing the most important part....
is it 2x more? 3x more? Maybe 5(log n)x^2 more? sin(cos(log (pi) * -1/2)) + e? More importantly, how much has the standard deviation moved from previous years to this one?
... when there aren't any Xbox's to play them on. I've seen shelves and shelves and shelves of Xbox 360 games for *weeks* now. The '07 sports stuff might well be current before 360's are commonly available.
If you didn't make it out to Toys'R'Us during the promotion to get a Mew... you never can.
Actually, if anyone has seen any working code on how to read such a chip via the webserver, let me know. I'll add it to whatismyproxy.
This will never fly, and not for the reasons we would hope for.
Here are the scenarios:
1) Chip reports stuff, but data stream is wide open, so middlemen can change whatever they want.
2) Chip reports stuff, but with shitty encryption so the gov't can still do its wiretaps and echelon won't break. System is hacked within a couple days and the whole 'chip' idea becomes worthless.
3) Chip reports stuff, but with robust encryption. The site you are talking to knows who you are, but people between you and them can't sniff your actions other than knowing that 'some sort of communication took place'.
Plus variations. This could actually make webs of trust (a la the direction that Freenet appears to be going) more secure, since you know that your neighbors haven't been man-in-the-middled.
0000000000000000 - (lameness filter
0000000000000010 - sure is great
0000000000000000 - there are carrots
0000000000000000 - on my plate
0000000000000000 - I have a buick
0000000000000000 - which I hate
0000000000000000 - I cut my kittens
0000000000000000 - into bait
0000000000000000 - la la la la
0000000000000000 - lameness filter
0000000000000000 - is this enough yet?
0000000000000000 - I realize the kitten line
0000000000000000 - may be a bit offensive
0000000000000000 - I'm a supporter of felinism, I swear
0100000000000010 - I just think that a kitten's place
0000000000000001 - is in the kitchen)
I don't see the big deal. How is this one of the big puzzles in computer science again?
Me, I'm shocked and AWED.
Has anybody written an IDE plugin yet to sign comments? You could for instance have a hash that uniquely identifies comment lines 10-20 and code lines 30-70 as the a 'set' of data that is required to match. Then if the hash of either section changes, flag it as a problem until the hash is regenerated.
Am I the only one who *hates* the new onion? It turned a more-or-less-resembling-newsprint site into an unreadable mess of columns without any clear design to it. It looks like they just took all the content and shoved it together without any differentiation between the different things. It was much more readable when you could easily scan only to the parts you normally read. Further, I think the 'push content below the fold' tactic that they seem to have employed is just an unsightly attempt to increase ad revenue down there. They've lost a reader in me, anyway. The Onion is now a chore to read. Good job.
New York officials also annouced plans to close public schools to anyone under 18. They made this decision after realizing that child predators know that children like to play unsupervised in schools. When asked about this decision, officals replied "We need to be vigilant to protect our children."
Ah, I'm sorry. The Kennedy's legacy.
A progressive company with fairly reasonable takes on copyright and employment that isn't going to be lobbying from a position of entitlement-because-we've-always-made-money-the-sa me-way? They'll be so lonely... Nobody will want to get drunk on the steps of the Capitol with them except the Kennedy's.