The idea? Keeping kids and teens off potentially dangerous sites, at least on public school and library time -- not to mention keeping would-be offenders from using library terminals for nefarious deeds.
Either change both the CSS and the Icons or change neither. As much as people bitch about the look of Slashdot, I think it's so old that it now has a pleasing retro look. But on the new layout the old icons look like garbage. So either fix everything or fix nothing.
Trapped by what? The mindless and meaningless jobs that they hold down working for a multinational corporation.
Perhaps then we should focuse more energy on making work less mindless and meaningless. Most of the people I talk to in the business world reveal they are seriously depressed, if pressed hard enough, because they know their work is meaningless.
"People are willing to do tedious, complex tasks within games," notes Nick Yee, a Stanford University graduate student in communications who has extensively studied online games. "What if we could tap into that brainpower?"
In other words, your next cubicle could well be inside a virtual world.
It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of your cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power than current designs.
Now I'll just recharge my phone ten times less often and it will still die when I need it most.
The proposals have been sent to Congress and include new laws that will require ISPs to report child pornography and bolster penalties for those companies that fail to do so.
Here's my concern with this kind of rule. Suppose someone is online viewing whatever vanilla porn they like and a malicious pop-up ad under false pretenses redirects them to something like really-horrible-k1ddi3-pr0n.xxx. They didn't want to go there, but now their ISP sends their information to the government. What happens to that person now?
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"DOPA would prohibit sites that enable users to create their own content and share it."
Wouldn't this cover any web-hosting service?
Hell, isn't a school a site that enables users to create their own content and share it?
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The idea? Keeping kids and teens off potentially dangerous sites, at least on public school and library time -- not to mention keeping would-be offenders from using library terminals for nefarious deeds.
"Nefarious deeds," added Fitzpatrick "like thinking."
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Conallen, of Fitzpatrick's office, says that the bill is intended as "just a start" for shielding kids when they're away from home supervision.
His office then said they are looking to build a "Walled Garden on the internet" where only government aproved thoughts are allowed.
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Either change both the CSS and the Icons or change neither. As much as people bitch about the look of Slashdot, I think it's so old that it now has a pleasing retro look. But on the new layout the old icons look like garbage. So either fix everything or fix nothing.
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Nice to see they all followed taco's rules: change nothing meaningful.
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Perhaps that's related to who's goofing off at workthe most.
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So they're going to start eliminating blatant spam when it's reported? Kewl!
Can I report blatant misspellings as well?
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Why is "Chuck Norris" the #1 search term in Poland?
Because Chuck Norris has already roundhouse kicked all the people in the important countries and the Poles know they're next.
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How could you leave out legs, where both of our countries agree.
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It is not clear what military purposes the Octarms will be used for
My guess is some variation on the 'killing people' theme that seems so popular with the military.
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One can only imagine the affect this will have on the rate of recruitment of Japonese school girls into the armed forces.
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The number of secret subpoenas the Bureau filed last year reached 3,501.
Wow! I bet they have a lot of terrorists to show for all that work. Right...?
::crickets chirping::
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From the linked Wikipedia article: "The term may include blogs and wikis."
Allow me to introduce you to my friend Venn Diagram.
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They were simplifying by just saying "blogs"
Right, and by simplifying they strip the word of meaning. That's what I have an issue with.
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For example, Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and AJAX are starting to show their potential behind corporate firewalls, analysts said.
Ugh. If you are going to use a buzz word, at least try to use in the right way. I keep a blog and there is nothing 2.0 (collaborative) about it.
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In related news Microsoft has fired 60,994 employees leaving 6 people working at the company...
So you're saying they didn't fire enough people.
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Every hour spent in their virtual life is an hour wasted of their real life.
So what are you doing wasting your life on slashdot then, Mr. High and Mighty?
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Trapped by what? The mindless and meaningless jobs that they hold down working for a multinational corporation.
Perhaps then we should focuse more energy on making work less mindless and meaningless. Most of the people I talk to in the business world reveal they are seriously depressed, if pressed hard enough, because they know their work is meaningless.
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"People are willing to do tedious, complex tasks within games," notes Nick Yee, a Stanford University graduate student in communications who has extensively studied online games. "What if we could tap into that brainpower?" In other words, your next cubicle could well be inside a virtual world.
The matrix has you.
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Didn't you get the memo? 1984 = terrorism too now.
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Do what you love. Be the best.
I'm going to be the best bland platitude espouser I can be.
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Whatever it is you REALLY enjoy, there is a way to make money at it
This has to be one of the most deceitful things that we tell children in America. How many people do you know who REALLY enjoy what they do?
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It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of your cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power than current designs.
Now I'll just recharge my phone ten times less often and it will still die when I need it most.
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The proposals have been sent to Congress and include new laws that will require ISPs to report child pornography and bolster penalties for those companies that fail to do so.
Here's my concern with this kind of rule. Suppose someone is online viewing whatever vanilla porn they like and a malicious pop-up ad under false pretenses redirects them to something like really-horrible-k1ddi3-pr0n.xxx. They didn't want to go there, but now their ISP sends their information to the government. What happens to that person now?
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Reminds me of the old Churchill quote: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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