A statement is true whether or not someone is crazy, educated or not, has a job or not, or is rich or not.
You are trying to classify all statements as being either true or false. But for statements in which the claim has not been verified, we can only attach a "belief" in the statement. This belief is largely derived, not from the content of the statement, but from our belief in the author/speaker of the statement. Of course, belief in this form is also the basis of Science and Religion. I think it's unfair to blame the "education/the media/entertainment" for a perfectly normal and reasonable thing that the humans have been doing for millennia.
May be I don't completely appreciate the potential here, but can somebody please explain the rationale behind allowing links and executable code in a media file? Isn't that begging for trouble in just such a way? At the most, you could have an instruction for the media player to ask you if you want to go to a link or execute said code (with more information about what it is for, of course). Why blame the "idiot" user for playing what looked like a media file before running a virus check?
Navneet
I believe that if there were a magic button that, when pushed, would make the Internet, data compression technology and all audio/video recordable media instantly vanish from the face of the Earth... those bastards would trample each other trying to be the first one to press it.
Now I'm beginning to wish that there were such a button!
@sumdumass
That won't work. The chemicals that are used to recreate the smells are probably themselves as expensive. After all they are "perfumes" too.
I wonder if the smell will last for some time. That could be, in a way, disastrous to channel surfing on TV.
Also would this mean that new media codecs will come into existence to standardize this? Will there be a flurry of copyrights for all kinds of smell? Would these allow the reproduction of smells for purposes other than digital entertainment? And what about new portable players like "iSmell"? And think about making "avatars" that even smell like you!
I am sure lots of people like me are going to block it just like popups and only allow them through when it's something like my mom's cookies.
Slashdot Mirror
You are trying to classify all statements as being either true or false. But for statements in which the claim has not been verified, we can only attach a "belief" in the statement. This belief is largely derived, not from the content of the statement, but from our belief in the author/speaker of the statement. Of course, belief in this form is also the basis of Science and Religion. I think it's unfair to blame the "education/the media/entertainment" for a perfectly normal and reasonable thing that the humans have been doing for millennia.
May be I don't completely appreciate the potential here, but can somebody please explain the rationale behind allowing links and executable code in a media file? Isn't that begging for trouble in just such a way? At the most, you could have an instruction for the media player to ask you if you want to go to a link or execute said code (with more information about what it is for, of course). Why blame the "idiot" user for playing what looked like a media file before running a virus check? Navneet
Wow! And it's even psychic!
Wow! I'd really like to know how to play games and boot iUbuntu on my friends' iPod. Care to enlighten me?
@sumdumass That won't work. The chemicals that are used to recreate the smells are probably themselves as expensive. After all they are "perfumes" too. I wonder if the smell will last for some time. That could be, in a way, disastrous to channel surfing on TV. Also would this mean that new media codecs will come into existence to standardize this? Will there be a flurry of copyrights for all kinds of smell? Would these allow the reproduction of smells for purposes other than digital entertainment? And what about new portable players like "iSmell"? And think about making "avatars" that even smell like you! I am sure lots of people like me are going to block it just like popups and only allow them through when it's something like my mom's cookies.