Don't be such an anal prick. It's not like they reported falsehoods or lies, which is a far bigger problem than one or typographical errors in an article.
I suppose what, you do everything 100% accurately? Give people a fucking break and start your own magazine that will be profitable and stand up to your anal standards.
Make no mistake, dot triple X is very dangerous. This fight has been fought before, but today without the conscience of the net's early pioneers.. we are heading into trouble.
If the dot triple X domain is approved, the following worst case scenario is possible. I don't believe it will actually happen because so far, the people have always held freedom of speech up to be very important.
Note, this is a worst case scenario. I don't believe it's all that likely to happen.
Popular websites, such as playboy.com, will not switch to.xxx, however start up pr0n sites will realize it's easier to market the website with dot triple x. This is where the positive aspects of dot triple X end. Then the negative scenario emerges, some parent will stumble across playboy.com and their kid who they're supposed to be watching will come into the room and see it.. and they will claim the kid is traumatized for life now.
Then you have the lawsuit.
"I thought it was a safe site cause it was a dot com!"....
Maybe an intelligent judge will throw it out of the courtroom?
But then you have the up and coming legislators out to get a few extra votes.
The "Freedom Using Controlled Knowledge" Act.
HR 31337.. "All websites that contain indecent or pornographic content must be delegated to.XXX"
ACLU sues the government.. Massive number of religious people protest the lawsuit saying God wouldn't want pornography to exist.. ACLU loses.. the supreme court finds no reason why websites cant be forced into.XXX, after all.. the argument will say.. strip clubs can be forced into designated areas.
All content deemed pornographic is in.XXX, well some content is immoral and distasteful.. maybe those will be forced into.XXX or some other domain ".pariah" ? who knows.
Next move, the same parent goes to playboy.xxx.. the same kid walks in on this.
"Why doesnt my ISP block this??"
ISPs start blocking.XXX and.pariah content to avoid lawsuits.
Next move, the same parent goes to goes to a kiddie porn website.
New agency starts tracking everyone who goes to.XXX websites. This tracking information will only be archived, so as to not violate the fourth amendment. Only in cases where crime is suspected will the data be looked at. Congress sees this as a good thing, and assures everyone that the fourth amendment is alive and well in some dungeon somewhere safely in their control.
Small minority of net users use encryption and pseudonymity schemes to communicate freely, these people are branded potential terrorists and pornographers. Those who use encryption excessively are marked as being involved in illegal activity and as having something to hide.
Ultimately though, pornography will survive but freedom will die.
This is just a worst case, I believe the people's will to freedom will prevent the worst case from happening.
Advice to Chinese dissidents: If you are going to be anonymous, use a pseudonym and digitally sign your stuff.. so that others know it's actually you and/or your dissident group.. that way you can build credibility with a reduced chance of being screwed.
Being totally anonymous isn't very effective, unless what you are saying can really stand on it's own (that is, it's stating provable logic rather than facts/events).
If you try to learn a language from a chick, not only would you have to decrypt chickspeak... you also have to decipher the language she's talking it in.
That's waaay too difficult man. Not to mention you'll be misled about what the hell things mean.
I have mobil speedpass (which was shown to be somewhat insecure cause they used low grade encryption btw).. anyway.. it's super convenient. It doesnt seem like much.. but it really feels a lot more convenient to save the extra 15 seconds it takes to sign for stuff and swipe etc. I think the technology exists to use high grade encryption etc. now.. so I really look forward to these contactless credit cards.
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Umm, there are adults working at mcdonalds and in retail. Personally I think maids and retail workers deserve more pay than people who sit around in an office.. spending half their time browsing the web.
It sucks. It's not fair.
Just because you do a job that supposedly involves brainwork doesnt make you any better than someone else who's willing to work as hard as you.
If the world was fair, McDonald's workers would get paid the same as tech workers. A farmer in the Sahara desert of Africa would get paid $200k for his/her hard work.
The stats are "infected files"... what does that really mean? You can have a virus that only infected two PC's but attached itself to eveyr file on there.. would that boost it's ranking? I'm more interested in "machines with infections" or "infected users" instead.
It would have been ridiculous AT THE TIME to address more data.. CPU's and software werent there yet.
Look, there are limits to the amount of stuff people need! yeah so 640k wasnt enough doesnt mean 6 billion terabytes isnt going to be enough for you tomorrow.
You know what.. why not have 512 bit file systems? Or 1024 bit filesystems? After all.. they said 640k would be enough for everyone.. and what happened? Global chaos and economic meltdown. Surely we need to prevent that from happening again. Oh yeah what's that? It never happened. The world still rotates.
Ok I was drunk writing the parent post. There is already a period of public review before a patent is granted.
Umm.. anyway, for the record.. inventors worldwide do need protection for truely original ideas cause they deserve it and plus it encourages more innovation. But I have problems with the period of that global monopoly being 20 years regardless of the originality of the idea. Just cause someone got to an idea first doesnt mean otherwise would not have had it. Also to a large extent ideas stand on the work of others.
Experts in various industries should try to do stints at the patent office so you have fresh ideas in there. It works both ways.. Einstein worked there didnt here?
Patents are utterly ridiculous. The US Patent Office is profitable, so clearly funding isnt the issue.
We need to a have a period of public review before patents are issued. Then again, after the first couple months people will lose interest. I suppose it's better than nothign. Does the US PTO have a permanent staff of patnet reviewers or do they consult out some of the work?
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He will still be a great physicist that helped bring us to where we're at in science today.
I dont see the big deal in "disproving" him. It's sad that people will take some sort of glee in thinking "Ha! Einstein was wrong!" Einstein himself would be glad to see people come closer in figuring out the natuer of the universe.
Given the knowledge and tools available to him at the time, its amazing he came up with something in 1904 that people nearly 100 years later are still trying to figure out how to improve or disprove. Today we have the advantage of knowing how to look at things the way he did.
Einstein's abilities, creativity, and ideas will have a permanent influence on humanity's acheivements.
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Don't be such an anal prick. It's not like they reported falsehoods or lies, which is a far bigger problem than one or typographical errors in an article.
I suppose what, you do everything 100% accurately? Give people a fucking break and start your own magazine that will be profitable and stand up to your anal standards.
Make no mistake, dot triple X is very dangerous. This fight has been fought before, but today without the conscience of the net's early pioneers .. we are heading into trouble.
.xxx, however start up pr0n sites will realize it's easier to market the website with dot triple x. This is where the positive aspects of dot triple X end. Then the negative scenario emerges, some parent will stumble across playboy.com and their kid who they're supposed to be watching will come into the room and see it .. and they will claim the kid is traumatized for life now.
....
.. "All websites that contain indecent or pornographic content must be delegated to .XXX"
.. Massive number of religious people protest the lawsuit saying God wouldn't want pornography to exist .. ACLU loses .. the supreme court finds no reason why websites cant be forced into .XXX, after all .. the argument will say .. strip clubs can be forced into designated areas.
.XXX, well some content is immoral and distasteful .. maybe those will be forced into .XXX or some other domain ".pariah" ? who knows.
.. the same kid walks in on this.
.XXX and .pariah content to avoid lawsuits.
.XXX websites. This tracking information will only be archived, so as to not violate the fourth amendment. Only in cases where crime is suspected will the data be looked at.
If the dot triple X domain is approved, the following worst case scenario is possible.
I don't believe it will actually happen because so far, the people have always held freedom of speech up to be very important.
Note, this is a worst case scenario. I don't believe it's all that likely to happen.
Popular websites, such as playboy.com, will not switch to
Then you have the lawsuit.
"I thought it was a safe site cause it was a dot com!"
Maybe an intelligent judge will throw it out of the courtroom?
But then you have the up and coming legislators out to get a few extra votes.
The "Freedom Using Controlled Knowledge" Act.
HR 31337
ACLU sues the government
All content deemed pornographic is in
Next move, the same parent goes to playboy.xxx
"Why doesnt my ISP block this??"
ISPs start blocking
Next move, the same parent goes to goes to a kiddie porn website.
New agency starts tracking everyone who goes to
Congress sees this as a good thing, and assures everyone that the fourth amendment is alive and well in some dungeon somewhere safely in their control.
Small minority of net users use encryption and pseudonymity schemes to communicate freely, these people are branded potential terrorists and pornographers. Those who use encryption excessively are marked as being involved in illegal activity and as having something to hide.
Ultimately though, pornography will survive but freedom will die.
This is just a worst case, I believe the people's will to freedom will prevent the worst case from happening.
Advice to Chinese dissidents: If you are going to be anonymous, use a pseudonym and digitally sign your stuff .. so that others know it's actually you and/or your dissident group .. that way you can build credibility with a reduced chance of being screwed.
Being totally anonymous isn't very effective, unless what you are saying can really stand on it's own (that is, it's stating provable logic rather than facts/events).
Dude, have you gone mad?
... you also have to decipher the language she's talking it in.
If you try to learn a language from a chick, not only would you have to decrypt chickspeak
That's waaay too difficult man. Not to mention you'll be misled about what the hell things mean.
Google is better poised to pull of a music search -> download option.
When someeone searches for a song it can have a little light blue box appear on top of the results that says "would you like to buy this song?"
I have mobil speedpass (which was shown to be somewhat insecure cause they used low grade encryption btw) .. anyway .. it's super convenient. It doesnt seem like much .. but it really feels a lot more convenient to save the extra 15 seconds it takes to sign for stuff and swipe etc. I think the technology exists to use high grade encryption etc. now .. so I really look forward to these contactless credit cards.
it's a re-run.
A pirated rerun at that.
Did microsoft get a patent on the word "ain't" ??
Microsoft has been quite consistent with their position on passwords.
Hackers, worms, and trojans have long been able to get into Windows without passwords.
I charge on a per logic gate basis.
.. but hey .. who says i have to care about that?
I was going to charge on a per transistor basis but decided against it.
Yeah I realize I wont be utilizing all the logic gates per transaction
Lame. I posted the above as anonymous coward .. I do not work for napster.
Hey why not attack the points i made instead of trying to go ad hominem.
yup dats q of v.
Umm, there are adults working at mcdonalds and in retail. Personally I think maids and retail workers deserve more pay than people who sit around in an office .. spending half their time browsing the web.
It sucks. It's not fair.
Just because you do a job that supposedly involves brainwork doesnt make you any better than someone else who's willing to work as hard as you.
If the world was fair, McDonald's workers would get paid the same as tech workers. A farmer in the Sahara desert of Africa would get paid $200k for his/her hard work.
The stats are "infected files" ... what does that really mean? You can have a virus that only infected two PC's but attached itself to eveyr file on there .. would that boost it's ranking? I'm more interested in "machines with infections" or "infected users" instead.
That freaking 640k quote is over used!
.. why not have 512 bit file systems? Or 1024 bit filesystems? After all .. they said 640k would be enough for everyone .. and what happened? Global chaos and economic meltdown. Surely we need to prevent that from happening again. Oh yeah what's that? It never happened. The world still rotates.
It would have been ridiculous AT THE TIME to address more data.. CPU's and software werent there yet.
Look, there are limits to the amount of stuff people need! yeah so 640k wasnt enough doesnt mean 6 billion terabytes isnt going to be enough for you tomorrow.
You know what
wow you didnt even get to type first post at the end.
a file systems for trillions of billions bytes of data?
What's it for?
Installing Windows ?
Umm .. 3COM ? They're still around? .. Last I heard of them it was 1999 and they were spinning off Palm. Not kidding.
You know the sad part is that some historian in 200 years may look through the patent office archives and conclude that microsoft invented the idea.
Ok I was drunk writing the parent post. There is already a period of public review before a patent is granted.
.. anyway, for the record .. inventors worldwide do need protection for truely original ideas cause they deserve it and plus it encourages more innovation. But I have problems with the period of that global monopoly being 20 years regardless of the originality of the idea.
.. Einstein worked there didnt here?
Umm
Just cause someone got to an idea first doesnt mean otherwise would not have had it. Also to a large extent ideas stand on the work of others.
Experts in various industries should try to do stints at the patent office so you have fresh ideas in there. It works both ways
Patents are utterly ridiculous. The US Patent Office is profitable, so clearly funding isnt the issue.
We need to a have a period of public review before patents are issued. Then again, after the first couple months people will lose interest.
I suppose it's better than nothign. Does the US PTO have a permanent staff of patnet reviewers or do they consult out some of the work?
Nice Try.
These are not the real screenshots. Well they may be real, but they are NOT from the article.
I predict this article will be reposted as a dupe within the next 48 hours.
you cant read or something?
"did HIM the most harm"
He will still be a great physicist that helped bring us to where we're at in science today.
I dont see the big deal in "disproving" him. It's sad that people will take some sort of glee in thinking "Ha! Einstein was wrong!" Einstein himself would be glad to see people come closer in figuring out the natuer of the universe.
Given the knowledge and tools available to him at the time, its amazing he came up with something in 1904 that people nearly 100 years later are still trying to figure out how to improve or disprove. Today we have the advantage of knowing how to look at things the way he did.
Einstein's abilities, creativity, and ideas will have a permanent influence on humanity's acheivements.