Yes, the Orwellian implications do scare me, though. It all boils down to how it is implemented and by who. What are their intentions: to make life easier for the common man? to make money? to control the common man? I wish we'd see a lot more of the first possibility.
that first concept you mentioned, about making life easier for the common man, seems to have totally consumed north america (at least, technology wise)..
life is not about having an "easy" time of things..life sucks and then you die, there's not much more to it than that, in the end we're all the same..(if you keep up with your skull&bones)
if keeping up to date with what's happening in the world is important to you, great, but there are far more things to worry about than how fast and how efficiently you can find out about what some crazy people are doing with large missles on remote islands, or what kind of linux is being released in 3 years..but there are far more things going on in the world than what you'll ever see on any number of websites..
if i were to never be able to read/. again, it would not affect my daily life at all. i gain nothing from it, it's just something to launch from when i surf. usually i get distracted by pr0n after a few minutes..maybe i might have some more free time..
i'd just like to finish up this fairly off-topic ramble..
imho, technology has made many common tasks simple, but many simple tasks difficult..doing homework over the internet sounds great, but not when it's due at 6pm on a saturday. i can't wait to see what people have on their tombstones in 50 years.."here lies rob, he was a great webmaster."
is it possible to configure this absolutely USELESS piece of technology that probably no one will ever get around to making anyways to only filter out the BAD porno sites?
that way, if we don't want to get pagejacked, we can just avoid it altogether by not going to the "click here for free XXX pix!"
man i fall for that all the time..
usually my mom just filters the stuff out for me..you know, the usual "there's not enough pink in that, don't look at it"
anyhow..if something like this was actually created, the internet e-conomy or whatever would probably collapse - if it wasn't for impulse buying, would anyone buy anything with their credit cards at all?
i wish clotho.org had kept me from eating that shrimp last night, i'm having the runs..oh i know what will solve that - sinking thousands of more hours into technology that will only screw us in the end (i'll be under a matress in the bathtub on 12/31..)
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/. again, it would not affect my daily life at all. i gain nothing from it, it's just something to launch from when i surf. usually i get distracted by pr0n after a few minutes..maybe i might have some more free time..
Yes, the Orwellian implications do scare me, though. It all boils down to how it is implemented and by who. What are their intentions: to make life easier for the common man? to make money? to control the common man? I wish we'd see a lot more of the first possibility.
that first concept you mentioned, about making life easier for the common man, seems to have totally consumed north america (at least, technology wise)..
life is not about having an "easy" time of things..life sucks and then you die, there's not much more to it than that, in the end we're all the same..(if you keep up with your skull&bones)
if keeping up to date with what's happening in the world is important to you, great, but there are far more things to worry about than how fast and how efficiently you can find out about what some crazy people are doing with large missles on remote islands, or what kind of linux is being released in 3 years..but there are far more things going on in the world than what you'll ever see on any number of websites..
if i were to never be able to read
i'd just like to finish up this fairly off-topic ramble..
imho, technology has made many common tasks simple, but many simple tasks difficult..doing homework over the internet sounds great, but not when it's due at 6pm on a saturday. i can't wait to see what people have on their tombstones in 50 years.."here lies rob, he was a great webmaster."
go outside and do stuff goddamnit.
is it possible to configure this absolutely USELESS piece of technology that probably no one will ever get around to making anyways to only filter out the BAD porno sites?
that way, if we don't want to get pagejacked, we can just avoid it altogether by not going to the "click here for free XXX pix!"
man i fall for that all the time..
usually my mom just filters the stuff out for me..you know, the usual "there's not enough pink in that, don't look at it"
anyhow..if something like this was actually created, the internet e-conomy or whatever would probably collapse - if it wasn't for impulse buying, would anyone buy anything with their credit cards at all?
i wish clotho.org had kept me from eating that shrimp last night, i'm having the runs..oh i know what will solve that - sinking thousands of more hours into technology that will only screw us in the end (i'll be under a matress in the bathtub on 12/31..)