Thats quite correct, I think that based on current evidence the Bush administration is completely inept, and quite frankly stupid as hell. I have no idea if I would feel better with Kerry in charge, I'd judge that on evidence of his government's performance.
My point about the natural disaster was not with respect to developing the net, but to do with their ability and willingness to handle disasters, hypothetically would they attempt to take precautions against a knwon large threat of some kind to the net?
At this stage of the net's development their arguement for keeping hold of the root DNS servers is petty (historic ownership or whatever crap arguement it is).
Its exactly why I personally support a UN body taking over the root DNS servers. The idea of the Bush government holding control over the net is just scary.
The arguement that "If its not broke then don't fix it" doesn't really hold true here, with the way that America is going its almost like watching a natural disaster coming right at you and not making any kind of precautions. Oh wait... didn't the Bush administration do just that?
I really don't have confidence the current US government making any possible necessary changes to the net in the future.
Yes, but that would involve sharing at least some of the western world's wealth around the rest of the population... and for some reason I really can't see that happening.
Thats what I initially thought that the article was going to be about when I saw the article title.
It seems that digital archiving is a small problem in comparison to the possible dangers of DRM, considering that there will always be some kind of format which most likely will be contingent for years (for example.txt for plain text).
Its most likely that there will always be a crazy specialist somewhere who deals with 10-20 year old hardware and could get your archaic data into a modern format for you, assuming that your media hasn't disintegrated over time (which is probably a harder problem to crack).
Exactly, however evil Microsoft as a corporation is, its workers are still people. Being pleased or finding it amusing that people have gotten infected with a potentially harmful disease is just lame dude.
Tbh, the awful dialogue at the end with his poor starving children and potential loss of the house completely ruined the troll for me, it just felt completely synthetic... I think that a C is being generous, especially in light of his supposed Christian rock status contradicting with the child assaulting scene later on.
Wow... someone missed the point a tad. Violent liberalists eh? Liberalists sure, but violent, thats a bit harsh and not something that you could really aim at most nerds/geeks on/. what are we going to do attack Bush with a pocket calculator?
Oh, and dude... "open-saucers"? Check your misguided and vaguely insulting comments before posting them, for someone with a supposed PhD in moecular biology I would expect better.
I've not even got started on the implication that people who use open source software are also paedophiles. Where did that come from?
Good God man concentrate on the damn road. There is no way you can tell me that you're fully concentrating on driving (and therefore avoiding all potential hazards) whilst thinking about how to type 565#*416#2879 with one hand on the sterring wheel. Even if you aren't actually looking at the handset. What if you need to swerve around a child running into the road. You think you can do that properly with one hand?
As a learner driver atm, the prospects of having someone like you on the road scares the shit out of me.
That would be hilarious to do if they had one of those annoying "I love Jesus" stickers in the back of their car. See what stuff you can make them do thinking that God is speaking to them over the radio. "Ok, now I command you to cut up that Juggernaut."
I was thinking that for more normal computer users (read: not/.ers) having a package with some cool functionality without having to mess around with lots of extensions themselves would be useful as often they'll have been tricked into buying that uber new P4 3.6 for £1500 for web browsing and the occasional Word Document from PCWorld and a small performance hit won't bother these types of users at all.
I agree with you on this point. If the mozilla devs want to add these cool but technically unnecessary features in (which is cool), then release them as official extensions to the main browser to stop it getting all microsofty and bloated.
The devs could then release different versions of the same browser for example; a lightweight version, regular version with some official mozilla feature extensions preloaded, and a heavyweight version with the offical mozilla features plus some of the best community extensions preloaded.
It would... if Bentham's Utilitarianism worked properly. Unfortunately its pretty damn easy to twist the Hedonic Calculus to your own means, or for governments to just plain ignore the parts that they don't want people to see. I think it was Mill who made some steps towards a more sane theory by adding in different levels of pleasure and happiness to the base theory.
Utilitarianism also has the unfortunate prerequisite of almost requiring precognative abilities in predicting the consequences of actions, and governments are notorious for not realising quite how extensive the ramifications of their actions are already.
Sounds like you're wanting some kind of Utilitarianism government, using the Hedonic Calculus to work out the morally right choice in any particular situation. But based on certain moral absolutes...
W00t is acceptable to say in real life conversations imo... However saying "lol" in real life is possibly the most embarrasing thing ever. Especially since everyone actually knows what it means, so you can't fob it off as just a random noise anymore.
'Tis a good point.
At 16 in the UK, I can now sleep with a girl, marry her, start a family. But if I were to take a picture of us having sex then I'd be a paedophile.
Weird, no?
Almost as irritating is general conservative attitude on youth's loss of morals, teenage pregnancy on the rise etc, but then they talk of raising the legal age for sex. Whats the best way to make a teenager want to do something? Make it illegal of course. Duh!
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Thats quite correct, I think that based on current evidence the Bush administration is completely inept, and quite frankly stupid as hell. I have no idea if I would feel better with Kerry in charge, I'd judge that on evidence of his government's performance.
My point about the natural disaster was not with respect to developing the net, but to do with their ability and willingness to handle disasters, hypothetically would they attempt to take precautions against a knwon large threat of some kind to the net?
At this stage of the net's development their arguement for keeping hold of the root DNS servers is petty (historic ownership or whatever crap arguement it is).
Its exactly why I personally support a UN body taking over the root DNS servers. The idea of the Bush government holding control over the net is just scary.
The arguement that "If its not broke then don't fix it" doesn't really hold true here, with the way that America is going its almost like watching a natural disaster coming right at you and not making any kind of precautions. Oh wait... didn't the Bush administration do just that?
I really don't have confidence the current US government making any possible necessary changes to the net in the future.
You mean make a complete ass of yourself? No, you've ALWAYS been able to do that on ./!
Yeah, I hate that bloody dotslash. Thank god slashdot has anti-asshat security measures.
Yes, but that would involve sharing at least some of the western world's wealth around the rest of the population... and for some reason I really can't see that happening.
Thats what I initially thought that the article was going to be about when I saw the article title.
.txt for plain text).
It seems that digital archiving is a small problem in comparison to the possible dangers of DRM, considering that there will always be some kind of format which most likely will be contingent for years (for example
Its most likely that there will always be a crazy specialist somewhere who deals with 10-20 year old hardware and could get your archaic data into a modern format for you, assuming that your media hasn't disintegrated over time (which is probably a harder problem to crack).
Guess what, we would have to revert to terrorist-like actions and tactics.
Oh my God, the IRONY!
Lets leave British dental hygiene out of this.
Especially when we get all this compensation culture and retarded "IP" stuff from over the pond.
Its funny...
But I feel bad for laughing at it.
An oldie, but a goodie. :)
Ph33r t3h cyb3rpunks....
Exactly, however evil Microsoft as a corporation is, its workers are still people. Being pleased or finding it amusing that people have gotten infected with a potentially harmful disease is just lame dude.
Imagine a Beowulf clu....
Sorry.
That was fucking awesome dude. No other words to describe it.
Wow... and I was actually starting to like Apple....
At least now I can go back to watching the video of that dude insulting Apple without feeling guilty.
Tbh, the awful dialogue at the end with his poor starving children and potential loss of the house completely ruined the troll for me, it just felt completely synthetic... I think that a C is being generous, especially in light of his supposed Christian rock status contradicting with the child assaulting scene later on.
Personally, I'd only give him a D.
Wow... someone missed the point a tad. Violent liberalists eh? Liberalists sure, but violent, thats a bit harsh and not something that you could really aim at most nerds/geeks on /. what are we going to do attack Bush with a pocket calculator?
Oh, and dude... "open-saucers"? Check your misguided and vaguely insulting comments before posting them, for someone with a supposed PhD in moecular biology I would expect better.
I've not even got started on the implication that people who use open source software are also paedophiles. Where did that come from?
Um... WHAT!?!
Good God man concentrate on the damn road. There is no way you can tell me that you're fully concentrating on driving (and therefore avoiding all potential hazards) whilst thinking about how to type 565#*416#2879 with one hand on the sterring wheel. Even if you aren't actually looking at the handset. What if you need to swerve around a child running into the road. You think you can do that properly with one hand?
As a learner driver atm, the prospects of having someone like you on the road scares the shit out of me.
"This is God. I command you to"
That would be hilarious to do if they had one of those annoying "I love Jesus" stickers in the back of their car. See what stuff you can make them do thinking that God is speaking to them over the radio. "Ok, now I command you to cut up that Juggernaut."
I was thinking that for more normal computer users (read: not /.ers) having a package with some cool functionality without having to mess around with lots of extensions themselves would be useful as often they'll have been tricked into buying that uber new P4 3.6 for £1500 for web browsing and the occasional Word Document from PCWorld and a small performance hit won't bother these types of users at all.
I agree with you on this point. If the mozilla devs want to add these cool but technically unnecessary features in (which is cool), then release them as official extensions to the main browser to stop it getting all microsofty and bloated.
The devs could then release different versions of the same browser for example; a lightweight version, regular version with some official mozilla feature extensions preloaded, and a heavyweight version with the offical mozilla features plus some of the best community extensions preloaded.
It would... if Bentham's Utilitarianism worked properly. Unfortunately its pretty damn easy to twist the Hedonic Calculus to your own means, or for governments to just plain ignore the parts that they don't want people to see. I think it was Mill who made some steps towards a more sane theory by adding in different levels of pleasure and happiness to the base theory.
Utilitarianism also has the unfortunate prerequisite of almost requiring precognative abilities in predicting the consequences of actions, and governments are notorious for not realising quite how extensive the ramifications of their actions are already.
Sounds like you're wanting some kind of Utilitarianism government, using the Hedonic Calculus to work out the morally right choice in any particular situation. But based on certain moral absolutes...
Poor Bentham would be spinning in his grave.
W00t is acceptable to say in real life conversations imo... However saying "lol" in real life is possibly the most embarrasing thing ever. Especially since everyone actually knows what it means, so you can't fob it off as just a random noise anymore.
Yeah, you do need parental permission. Although, not if you elope to Scotland or something.
One sure fire way to piss your parents off.
'Tis a good point. At 16 in the UK, I can now sleep with a girl, marry her, start a family. But if I were to take a picture of us having sex then I'd be a paedophile.
Weird, no?
Almost as irritating is general conservative attitude on youth's loss of morals, teenage pregnancy on the rise etc, but then they talk of raising the legal age for sex. Whats the best way to make a teenager want to do something? Make it illegal of course. Duh!
The irony in a P2P network/protocal suing the MPAA may well cause the American legal system to implode.