Are you willing to risk your life because two drug dealers want to sell in front of your building? If I think they are armed or would come back armed charging in action hero style would be stupid, but yes I am willing to call the cops and take photots, testify, etc. (in the case of the article there would already be video) because if two guys start dealing in front of my building then my decent neighborhood is on it's way to becoming a bad crime infested neighborhood. We are all part of the community, the individual actions of each of us determines what kind of community we live in. What would you what your nieghbors to do if they saw you getting mugged and beaten in front of your building?
The point is that this reporter is an average joe when it comes to computers, and the article reflects on the problems the average joe would have when trying to make the jump to Linux. Slashdotters regularly cry out for Linux to take down the evil M$ but if soccer mom's across America can't get it to work (do everything their windows box does, except crash) without much tinkering, then it will never take hold in the mainstream. Plug and Play Linux anyone?
I've heard of the occassional similar story, the is a case of someone being stabbed like 50 times in the lobby of their building and no one was willing to open the door or call the cops. This is one of the arguments against realist violence in entertainment, desensitivity. Do you think that this type of live cam programming will add to that detachment or will help counter balance it since it is real and the viewer can actually help? I know what I do when there is a fight out front of my building, I also see how many people are reluctant to be the first one's to make a move, but will gladly jump in once there seems to be some support. It could go either way.
Or the police could be flooded with calls of "someone is being attacked on London camera 37" . I guess it depends on if you think everyone will just sit by and watch or if they will try to help the victim. If they sit by and watch without helping then the shame is on them. What kind of beast could watch a live video feed of a rape occuring down the street and not call for help or run down the block with a baseball bat.
You think it's okay for the police to tack on public humiliation at will -- before the guy's even been convicted? The police and a conviction have nothing to do with the public humiliation. The only source of humiliation would be your own stupid actions, that you thought no one could see.
You are most certainly right in that not all small companies are good, not all large companies are bad. Out of honest curiousity, why did a company of 50 employees need a Board of Directors? Why didn't disgruntled employees set up as a competitor? It seems that if the bossman was such a jerk it wouldn't be too tough to get 15 employees with the necessary skill to start up a new company in what sounds like a fertile market (30%annual growth)
I'm counting on Google and eBay to save America" While it is wonderful that ebay and Google are offering large scale exposure and nation wide distrabution to small businesses, let's not demonize all giant corporations. Some things are better done on a huge scale. Think Boeing and FedEx. While other things are best done on a small,even personal,scale. Like fine dining or health care. The real hope for America is finding the appropirate scale for different industries, instead of business success being defined as becoming a huge market-dominating multinational, success can become about a balanced harmonious place in the economy and community.
Right because without myspace, game forums, mmogs, IMs, etc., they would be totally unprepared? Bullshit. Maybe just, maybe, you're afraid of losing your AIM at school. I work in showbiz in NYC. Anyone without texting, and IMing, and(for designers)a personal/design website is unconnected and doesn't get much work. Having an online presence (ie Myspace) is part of these kids social growth, wheither you think it's stupid or not. All business is just as much who you know as what you know, today's WOW gaming guild is tomorrow's diverse network of personal connections. This might not count for much when you're sitting on a government job, but if these kids want to be freelancers or job hop to faster promotions, or even stay keyed in a fast evolving work scene they need that online social scene. I spent over a hour today trading online dating stories with guys that can make a 50% difference in my annual income, it's better than playing golf with the boss.
If you want to use a computer and you don't have one, go to the library, like people who arent of school age. RTFA this proposed law includes public libraries. And unless your doing a report on the specific topic of a/. story, no, I don't think it IS necessary to read it and post replies while you should be doing your damn algebra. Somehow I find it hard to believe that any kids that hang out in library after school to read/. are having trouble with algebra. I thought there were there to be educational tools.... I don't pay my damn taxes so some dipshit kid can surf game forums, or myspace, when he should be cracking a book and getting those grades up. Maybe, just maybe, social networking online might be an important part of being prepared for life in the information age.
The company should be disbanded, all its assets forfeited and sold at auction. Anyone on the executive committee of the company, and anyone else who knew or should have known that this violation would have occurred, should be sentenced to at least ten years in prison, and their personal assets forfeited and auctioned off. In other news, Microsoft HQ moves to India, all the top execs are offered amnesty in India. US economy collapses. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined.http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/wealth_dis tribution1999.html
Is reading and responding to something like Slashdot, freedom of speech or a waste of tax dollars? Should people without home computers be banned from posting an online resume? Should they be banned from online social circles? Should they have to sit at the back of the bus? If the banned venues are someone's only internet access this is probably due largely to $$$ or lack there of. So these laws also have some serious economic/class repercussions. Anyone with "l337 gamz0ring skillz" can still IM from home.
Imagine the blackmarket resale value of an Idenity theft of a "undercover security tester". Smuggle anything you want an if you get caught here is your get out of jail free card.
"These companies are trying to walk a fine line between offending the Chinese government, on the one hand, and offending the American government on the other."
Yeah, who cares about the actual people being taken away as long as we don't offend any governments. Morals and ethics are just there to appease the media and government officials, right?
"federally-funded" areas that are being targetted for enforcement, but wouldn't that amount to the government selectively banning content from the public? I wonder how much of the infrastructure of the internet in the U.S. is federally funded? It's easy to see how this could grow to other government funded parts of the internet and how it could grow to include other selective criteria.
"unless you have a very selective whitelist of allowed connections, and block everything else."
So how do we keep China from increasing it's isolation to a whitelist only firewall when this or similar software comes out? Economically, having a China Whitelisted website outside the PRC might become enough of a business asset that companies would conform to them instead of China conforming to the west. That's already happened.
"Having him on file, does jack and or shit. So Uncle Sam keeps him on file, hell we'll go one step further, keeps GPS and the whole schebang on him 24/7. Yea when he gets a huge powerup like the Infinite Gauntlet, being able to scramble your military ain't shit." Hmm, so you think maybe Marvel is saying that the government might make some huge invasive program in the name of Protecting the People, but in reality it is only hot air, postureing, and a loss of civil rights with no additional safety. Where did they get that idea? It's almost like they aren't really talking about superheros...
big label artists are still being boned So maybe they need to stop being big label artists. Easer said than done I realize, but if they can maintain and even use their fanbase to move to a more progressive indie label they will pave the way for artists who currently need the clout of a big label to get noticed. Once listening to bands on a Internet only indie label becomes trendy, then digital music will be all that we want it to be, right now there is still too much $$$ in the old corperate giants, because people still go for the big corperate product.
As long as people can feel like they are making a difference by carrying signs and shouting slogans, those in power will stay in power and the nature of that power will not change. "The pen is mighter than the sword" is the great pacifier of the masses. Do you think any errant world leader actually cares what his approval ratings are with the people?
See I say a discussion about the right to bear arms and you read "overthrow the government" that's why an invasion of my privacy is an infringement on my free speech. I'm talking about historical context and you are reading terrorism. It is very easy to criminalize people when you are looking for criminals.
Free speech is not free if it can be construed as terrorism and you are hauled off to Gitmo without rights. What if I want to have a conversation about the right to bear arms being less about home security and more about the people ablity to overthrow corrupt government, can I do so without worrying for my safety? Can an American Muslim of arab descent?
Secret projects get secret funding that's all tangled in with other military funding. To paraphrase Men-in-Black "You don't really think they pay $300 for a hammer do you?"
as self publishing and self publicizing becomes more doable, that there is no way that the old model of the recording megacorps can continue to hold up.
Could it be that this current bill in Congress to restrict streaming is the tip of the wedge used to make self publishing and promotion less doable. First streaming MP3s are illegal,then all Music files without DRM, then prohibitive licensing of DRM encoders. If Sony can make their products less functional to protect their $$$ why wouldn't they try to do the same with internet distribution?
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Are you willing to risk your life because two drug dealers want to sell in front of your building?
If I think they are armed or would come back armed charging in action hero style would be stupid, but yes I am willing to call the cops and take photots, testify, etc. (in the case of the article there would already be video) because if two guys start dealing in front of my building then my decent neighborhood is on it's way to becoming a bad crime infested neighborhood. We are all part of the community, the individual actions of each of us determines what kind of community we live in. What would you what your nieghbors to do if they saw you getting mugged and beaten in front of your building?
The point is that this reporter is an average joe when it comes to computers, and the article reflects on the problems the average joe would have when trying to make the jump to Linux. Slashdotters regularly cry out for Linux to take down the evil M$ but if soccer mom's across America can't get it to work (do everything their windows box does, except crash) without much tinkering, then it will never take hold in the mainstream. Plug and Play Linux anyone?
I've heard of the occassional similar story, the is a case of someone being stabbed like 50 times in the lobby of their building and no one was willing to open the door or call the cops. This is one of the arguments against realist violence in entertainment, desensitivity. Do you think that this type of live cam programming will add to that detachment or will help counter balance it since it is real and the viewer can actually help? I know what I do when there is a fight out front of my building, I also see how many people are reluctant to be the first one's to make a move, but will gladly jump in once there seems to be some support. It could go either way.
Or the police could be flooded with calls of "someone is being attacked on London camera 37" . I guess it depends on if you think everyone will just sit by and watch or if they will try to help the victim. If they sit by and watch without helping then the shame is on them. What kind of beast could watch a live video feed of a rape occuring down the street and not call for help or run down the block with a baseball bat.
You think it's okay for the police to tack on public humiliation at will -- before the guy's even been convicted?
The police and a conviction have nothing to do with the public humiliation. The only source of humiliation would be your own stupid actions, that you thought no one could see.
You are most certainly right in that not all small companies are good, not all large companies are bad. Out of honest curiousity, why did a company of 50 employees need a Board of Directors? Why didn't disgruntled employees set up as a competitor? It seems that if the bossman was such a jerk it wouldn't be too tough to get 15 employees with the necessary skill to start up a new company in what sounds like a fertile market (30%annual growth)
I'm counting on Google and eBay to save America"
While it is wonderful that ebay and Google are offering large scale exposure and nation wide distrabution to small businesses, let's not demonize all giant corporations. Some things are better done on a huge scale. Think Boeing and FedEx. While other things are best done on a small,even personal,scale. Like fine dining or health care. The real hope for America is finding the appropirate scale for different industries, instead of business success being defined as becoming a huge market-dominating multinational, success can become about a balanced harmonious place in the economy and community.
Right because without myspace, game forums, mmogs, IMs, etc., they would be totally unprepared? Bullshit. Maybe just, maybe, you're afraid of losing your AIM at school.
I work in showbiz in NYC. Anyone without texting, and IMing, and(for designers)a personal/design website is unconnected and doesn't get much work. Having an online presence (ie Myspace) is part of these kids social growth, wheither you think it's stupid or not. All business is just as much who you know as what you know, today's WOW gaming guild is tomorrow's diverse network of personal connections. This might not count for much when you're sitting on a government job, but if these kids want to be freelancers or job hop to faster promotions, or even stay keyed in a fast evolving work scene they need that online social scene. I spent over a hour today trading online dating stories with guys that can make a 50% difference in my annual income, it's better than playing golf with the boss.
If you want to use a computer and you don't have one, go to the library, like people who arent of school age. /. story, no, I don't think it IS necessary to read it and post replies while you should be doing your damn algebra. /. are having trouble with algebra. ... I don't pay my damn taxes so some dipshit kid can surf game forums, or myspace, when he should be cracking a book and getting those grades up.
RTFA this proposed law includes public libraries.
And unless your doing a report on the specific topic of a
Somehow I find it hard to believe that any kids that hang out in library after school to read
I thought there were there to be educational tools.
Maybe, just maybe, social networking online might be an important part of being prepared for life in the information age.
The company should be disbanded, all its assets forfeited and sold at auction. Anyone on the executive committee of the company, and anyone else who knew or should have known that this violation would have occurred, should be sentenced to at least ten years in prison, and their personal assets forfeited and auctioned off.s tribution1999.html
In other news, Microsoft HQ moves to India, all the top execs are offered amnesty in India. US economy collapses. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/wealth_di
"The lone customer will do what exactly?". htm
Probably just languish in prison wondering if his family is safe and if the guards are going to beat him again. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/01/china11957
Is reading and responding to something like Slashdot, freedom of speech or a waste of tax dollars? Should people without home computers be banned from posting an online resume? Should they be banned from online social circles? Should they have to sit at the back of the bus? If the banned venues are someone's only internet access this is probably due largely to $$$ or lack there of. So these laws also have some serious economic/class repercussions. Anyone with "l337 gamz0ring skillz" can still IM from home.
Imagine the blackmarket resale value of an Idenity theft of a "undercover security tester". Smuggle anything you want an if you get caught here is your get out of jail free card.
"federally-funded" areas that are being targetted for enforcement, but wouldn't that amount to the government selectively banning content from the public?
I wonder how much of the infrastructure of the internet in the U.S. is federally funded? It's easy to see how this could grow to other government funded parts of the internet and how it could grow to include other selective criteria.
"unless you have a very selective whitelist of allowed connections, and block everything else."
So how do we keep China from increasing it's isolation to a whitelist only firewall when this or similar software comes out? Economically, having a China Whitelisted website outside the PRC might become enough of a business asset that companies would conform to them instead of China conforming to the west. That's already happened.
"Having him on file, does jack and or shit. So Uncle Sam keeps him on file, hell we'll go one step further, keeps GPS and the whole schebang on him 24/7. Yea when he gets a huge powerup like the Infinite Gauntlet, being able to scramble your military ain't shit."
Hmm, so you think maybe Marvel is saying that the government might make some huge invasive program in the name of Protecting the People, but in reality it is only hot air, postureing, and a loss of civil rights with no additional safety. Where did they get that idea? It's almost like they aren't really talking about superheros...
big label artists are still being boned
So maybe they need to stop being big label artists. Easer said than done I realize, but if they can maintain and even use their fanbase to move to a more progressive indie label they will pave the way for artists who currently need the clout of a big label to get noticed. Once listening to bands on a Internet only indie label becomes trendy, then digital music will be all that we want it to be, right now there is still too much $$$ in the old corperate giants, because people still go for the big corperate product.
I don't know if Hilliary will run, she's pretty safe to have her Senate seat until she dies. Long term that's alot more power.
As long as people can feel like they are making a difference by carrying signs and shouting slogans, those in power will stay in power and the nature of that power will not change. "The pen is mighter than the sword" is the great pacifier of the masses. Do you think any errant world leader actually cares what his approval ratings are with the people?
See I say a discussion about the right to bear arms and you read "overthrow the government" that's why an invasion of my privacy is an infringement on my free speech. I'm talking about historical context and you are reading terrorism. It is very easy to criminalize people when you are looking for criminals.
If three terms becomes legal we'll re-elect Bill Clinton.
Free speech is not free if it can be construed as terrorism and you are hauled off to Gitmo without rights. What if I want to have a conversation about the right to bear arms being less about home security and more about the people ablity to overthrow corrupt government, can I do so without worrying for my safety? Can an American Muslim of arab descent?
Secret projects get secret funding that's all tangled in with other military funding. To paraphrase Men-in-Black "You don't really think they pay $300 for a hammer do you?"