While we Slashdotters may begin to bristle at the mere thought of someone suppressing any sort of information, Yahoo is well within their rights to moderate anything posted to their servers. I certainly would like to know what was removed as well as anyone, but I would never want their right to regulate what resides in their systems to be questioned or controlled in any way, as it could easily apply to me next. For the Globe to make a big deal out of a company removing content from their own servers seems like a much bigger deal to me.
Say what you will about how crazy he is for doing this and the potential abuses that may occur with the advance of cybernetics, but at least someone is taking grand steps to explore the possibilities, at his own risk at that. In this day and age where every decision seems to hinge on what one will get in return and how safe will it be, he is putting his money where his mouth (or in this case, his arm) is. If the technology pans out and becomes more commonplace, there WILL be abuses and there WILL be risks, but that's pretty much the status quo for any revolutionary advance. Eventually, we will learn to deal with those, just as we've learned how to safely perform X-rays, or how to launch large payloads into space, or how to transplant organs to save lives or even to interconnect massive numbers of computers so that anyone can access the information held on them.
It has to start somewhere. Something that this society has seemed to have nearly forgotten in our complacentcy. The thing that really amazes me is that measures have not been taken to suppress his experiments by any governing agencies.
What in the hell is going on?!? This kid wrote a paper, not even a very eloquent paper, containing violent content and he gets detained by the court system?!? Excuse my language, but how in the fuck is it the business of ANY government agency, be it the local police or the supreme court, as to the thoughts that someone sets to paper. He didn't threaten anyone; I'm sure there have been many variations of this story written that didn't result in anything, so why this? Columbine? Give me a break; just because a story has elements of a real life travesty does NOT justify prosecuting THOUGHTCRIME!
So now that we're setting precedent here, how about doing some catching up. Let's start by tossing Stephen King in the pokey for his story "Rage", which is OBVIOUSLY a fully detailed plan to conduct a takeover of a classroom.
What, this doesn't make sense to you?
IT SHOULDN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE!!! Just as attempting to prosecute this kid for thoughts that he put on paper is completely ludicrous. The people who took part in detaining this boy should be immediately removed from any position of authority for flagrant abuse of power! There is absolutely NO reason that this should have EVER happened.
Allow me to tell you a quick story: two kids walk into school and commence to firing on their classmates. By the time that they are taken down by the cops, 23 fellow students are dead and more are wounded.
NOW COME TRY TO ARREST ME, YOU FASCIST BASTARDS!
Deosyne Apologies for raving, but I have NEVER been so angry as I am after reading about this.
I am so tired of the clamoring for a color Palm. Newsflash: its a Franklin Planner with an attitude problem. Adding color would just create overhead that detracts from its primary purpose: maintaining databases. The Motorola Dragonball is a hell of a good CPU for pushing the Palm's functions, but you start sweating it with color graphics, it is going to deteriorate in its fast management of personal contact information, which is the real point. Those engineers at Palm are some really smart sumguns and very nice folks, but they are not miracle workers; they still get limited by the hardware. You want to see what I mean? Run your favorite flavor of Linux on a 486/DX 33 with 4 MB RAM. Now load up XFree86. Now find a hobby to take up while the computer tries to do anything in X. Same deal, smaller scale.
Seriously, though, how effective is Valium in calming someone? I've never taken Valium, so I don't know of its exact effects, but I have... let's just say I don't deal with bad situations as well as I once could. I am dying to get this surgery done and see what its like to never have to deal with glasses or contacts again, but just thinking of my cornea being sliced open is getting me rattled. I will get it done anyhow, but I just want to know how effective Valium is in reducing anixety; forewarned is forearmed, or some such nonsense.
Jokes aside... I wonder how feasible it would be to do this with a fantasy RPG interface. As a remote administration tool, probably, as you wouldn't want the bloody thing to chow down on all of the available resources of the workhorse machines. I bet it really would be possible to do so, although in terms of efficiency it wouldn't really be a good idea. But then again, would there really be a loss resulting from the few additional seconds it would take an admin to execute a command via such an interface as compared to punching a command or two into a term?
I'm really beginning to think that this could be a viable solution; I'm going to have to find a decent open source RPG to work with and see what can be done.:)
Please! If they really wanted to test the capabilities of this system in comparison to a human, they should use my wife!
Her: Honey, where are you at, its so noisy? And who is that with you? Me: Um, nowhere and nobody, its just a business meeting... Her: Oh? Does she work with you? Me: Um, who? Her: The 26 year old brunette wearing the green dress who just said your name two tables away. I'm not deaf, you know...
Deosyne
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The problem that AMD faces right now is marketing. They have garnered the interest of the public and have proven that the K7 is as good, and in many cases, better than the P3. But if the product isn't actually available, they won't make the sales. Currently, there aren't too many motherboards manufacturers making Athlon boards, particularly since the large earthquake in Taiwan has disrupted the motherboard supply. When those manufacturers have to decide between appeasing Intel's request for more boards to be created for their Pentium line or AMD's request to support their new, unproven product, which way do you think that they are going to direct their efforts? And who is going to buy a CPU that can't be used because they cannot get a motherboard for it, particularly when considering the OEMs who need them in quantity to stock their customers' stores?
I would very much like to see what AMD can accomplish in the 64 bit processor market, but I'm not going to hold my breath on a release until I see the Athlon make some real strides in the marketplace.
Slashdot Mirror
While we Slashdotters may begin to bristle at the mere thought of someone suppressing any sort of information, Yahoo is well within their rights to moderate anything posted to their servers. I certainly would like to know what was removed as well as anyone, but I would never want their right to regulate what resides in their systems to be questioned or controlled in any way, as it could easily apply to me next. For the Globe to make a big deal out of a company removing content from their own servers seems like a much bigger deal to me.
Deosyne
Say what you will about how crazy he is for doing this and the potential abuses that may occur with the advance of cybernetics, but at least someone is taking grand steps to explore the possibilities, at his own risk at that. In this day and age where every decision seems to hinge on what one will get in return and how safe will it be, he is putting his money where his mouth (or in this case, his arm) is. If the technology pans out and becomes more commonplace, there WILL be abuses and there WILL be risks, but that's pretty much the status quo for any revolutionary advance. Eventually, we will learn to deal with those, just as we've learned how to safely perform X-rays, or how to launch large payloads into space, or how to transplant organs to save lives or even to interconnect massive numbers of computers so that anyone can access the information held on them.
It has to start somewhere. Something that this society has seemed to have nearly forgotten in our complacentcy. The thing that really amazes me is that measures have not been taken to suppress his experiments by any governing agencies.
Deosyne
What in the hell is going on?!? This kid wrote a paper, not even a very eloquent paper, containing violent content and he gets detained by the court system?!? Excuse my language, but how in the fuck is it the business of ANY government agency, be it the local police or the supreme court, as to the thoughts that someone sets to paper. He didn't threaten anyone; I'm sure there have been many variations of this story written that didn't result in anything, so why this? Columbine? Give me a break; just because a story has elements of a real life travesty does NOT justify prosecuting THOUGHTCRIME!
So now that we're setting precedent here, how about doing some catching up. Let's start by tossing Stephen King in the pokey for his story "Rage", which is OBVIOUSLY a fully detailed plan to conduct a takeover of a classroom.
What, this doesn't make sense to you?
IT SHOULDN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE!!! Just as attempting to prosecute this kid for thoughts that he put on paper is completely ludicrous. The people who took part in detaining this boy should be immediately removed from any position of authority for flagrant abuse of power! There is absolutely NO reason that this should have EVER happened.
Allow me to tell you a quick story: two kids walk into school and commence to firing on their classmates. By the time that they are taken down by the cops, 23 fellow students are dead and more are wounded.
NOW COME TRY TO ARREST ME, YOU FASCIST BASTARDS!
Deosyne
Apologies for raving, but I have NEVER been so angry as I am after reading about this.
Well, our little green penguin friend is small and cute, and he (she?) reminds so many of us of Linux, I humbly suggest:
:)
Dust Puppy!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Deosyne
I am so tired of the clamoring for a color Palm. Newsflash: its a Franklin Planner with an attitude problem. Adding color would just create overhead that detracts from its primary purpose: maintaining databases. The Motorola Dragonball is a hell of a good CPU for pushing the Palm's functions, but you start sweating it with color graphics, it is going to deteriorate in its fast management of personal contact information, which is the real point. Those engineers at Palm are some really smart sumguns and very nice folks, but they are not miracle workers; they still get limited by the hardware. You want to see what I mean? Run your favorite flavor of Linux on a 486/DX 33 with 4 MB RAM. Now load up XFree86. Now find a hobby to take up while the computer tries to do anything in X. Same deal, smaller scale.
Deosyne
Wonderful idea, and it looks like it is loyal to the original; I just can't wait for the first idiot call concerning this one:
:/
"How can I help you?"
"Dude, the monster just nailed my police station and started fires in my commercial zone!"
"What?!? Have you tried a soft reset?"
I hate doing tech support.
Deosyne
Seriously, though, how effective is Valium in calming someone? I've never taken Valium, so I don't know of its exact effects, but I have... let's just say I don't deal with bad situations as well as I once could. I am dying to get this surgery done and see what its like to never have to deal with glasses or contacts again, but just thinking of my cornea being sliced open is getting me rattled. I will get it done anyhow, but I just want to know how effective Valium is in reducing anixety; forewarned is forearmed, or some such nonsense.
Jokes aside... I wonder how feasible it would be to do this with a fantasy RPG interface. As a remote administration tool, probably, as you wouldn't want the bloody thing to chow down on all of the available resources of the workhorse machines. I bet it really would be possible to do so, although in terms of efficiency it wouldn't really be a good idea. But then again, would there really be a loss resulting from the few additional seconds it would take an admin to execute a command via such an interface as compared to punching a command or two into a term?
:)
I'm really beginning to think that this could be a viable solution; I'm going to have to find a decent open source RPG to work with and see what can be done.
Deosyne
Please! If they really wanted to test the capabilities of this system in comparison to a human, they should use my wife!
Her: Honey, where are you at, its so noisy? And who is that with you?
Me: Um, nowhere and nobody, its just a business meeting...
Her: Oh? Does she work with you?
Me: Um, who?
Her: The 26 year old brunette wearing the green dress who just said your name two tables away. I'm not deaf, you know...
Deosyne
The problem that AMD faces right now is marketing. They have garnered the interest of the public and have proven that the K7 is as good, and in many cases, better than the P3. But if the product isn't actually available, they won't make the sales. Currently, there aren't too many motherboards manufacturers making Athlon boards, particularly since the large earthquake in Taiwan has disrupted the motherboard supply. When those manufacturers have to decide between appeasing Intel's request for more boards to be created for their Pentium line or AMD's request to support their new, unproven product, which way do you think that they are going to direct their efforts? And who is going to buy a CPU that can't be used because they cannot get a motherboard for it, particularly when considering the OEMs who need them in quantity to stock their customers' stores?
I would very much like to see what AMD can accomplish in the 64 bit processor market, but I'm not going to hold my breath on a release until I see the Athlon make some real strides in the marketplace.
Deosyne