Yes, the trolls are way beyond the one obligatory FP item that everyone ignores.
In the new redesign, the customizable comment modifiers seem much harder to find. The easiest method seems to be http://slashdot.org/my/comments. For the longest time I used to have a penalty on 1 sentence comments and left the rest alone, but lately some if the informative comments are coming through at 10 words + a link, and the trolls are writing more.
Now I switched it to penalize the last 40,000 accounts created, enough to knock back the 2-mil-uid crew.
I might agree with the... strong language. We might be in an age seeing the rise of tech oligarchies. Now that Microsoft has absolutely dropped from the Borg colossus to "just a big rich business", Google (as well as Apple, and yes, Linux itself!) have emerged to push away the era when "any of a thousand choices will do". (It used to be Any PC box + MS, then Any hardware phone + a carrier).
So now we have a complex interplay where Google is developing best-in-breed services *beyond* just raw search. Consumers win when new businesses force MS to quit being sloppy. Android pulled the same trick of "free stuff replicates" that MS did with DOS in the early days, except in the hyper world of InterTubes, the effect took off like a rocket in some three years instead of ten. Faced with the future of phones being the sum of Android and iPhone, MS became stuck with yet another ten year track of derailed vision in WinMobile.
Theory time! What if there is room for precisely one-two Walled Gardens and one-two "Lateral Spreads"? (iPod + 10 variants of music players, iPhone + 10 variants of Android, iPad + 10 variants of TabletAndroid)?
Looping back to the question, for people who don't like Walled Gardens, Google (using MS as a spoiler) is sewing up the other half by ensuring that no one can easily do a *third* network because of failed-synergy issues. The only way that would happen is if Google's offerings fell from grace and were *replaced* by a new competitor, which leaves my theory intact.
I decided to "skip a year" of Fringe with an eye towards one day buying the DVD. At the time he seemed interested in playing William Bell for a few episodes, but apparently things didn't work out.
My guess is that over-usage of the objects of Sin Taxes often translate into increased medical / social costs, except the rates may be sawtooth rather than a smooth curve. For example, taxes on cigarettes would possibly offset the public subsidy of Medicare claims *if* the accounting were done honestly.
The problem is now we have a bad problem of the "stated/theoretical" use of some policy, and the "actual/sneaky" bait&switch use of policies.
I currently view these YRO stories as pieces in a game, and games Like combos. Try the combo of this purchase system with Microsoft's neat new proposed law that anyone who purchases something which had a pirated copy of software anywhere in the supply chain can be sued. Or mate it with Microsoft's patent-applied "Database of Blackmail Details".
And for the crew that hope that securing communications is enough, I'm pretty sure that the items are presented on unique trackable webpages, so your choice of any 12 of the 400 companies in Ghostery are going to get a back end link to Google's system and create their own versions of the data, so even if you trust Google and barely trust Microsoft, I certainly don't trust third tier derivative tracking companies.
For all of you Magic the Gathering fans (though I retired) , I'm pretty sure we can start making a Black-Blue-Red symbolic deck out of all this stuff. Deity help my bank account if Wizards created a new set with actual news stories, because their attention to detail accuracy is desperately needed vs the faltering news reportage lately.
Sure, some great points there. In my view however, the roles are getting ever more sticky. From the govt side, one of the biggest attempts at censorship is coming from the proposed new laws to the effect "unauthorized streaming" (not even copying anymore!) "is a (potential) felony because somewhere, some kid may die from an illegal episode of SpongeBob". So then cue Apple, with their nice cozy walled garden of eden, "everything in the garden is safe, but you wouldn't want to play in the ghetto outside on da internetz".
So then you get Apple in the position of "certifying" stuff, and then it very much matters what the "private comany" decides is kosher. (Pickle extra.)
Very roughly, the relevant legislatures are US, UK, France, China, and Australia and your choice of Pick-Two others. They each have their own spin on things, but over and over of the huge number of countries out there, it's some seven countries constantly in the YRO news.
They could forward it to one of those countries undergoing 8,000% inflation daily, pay it off, then reset the currency and tell the **AA "you were compensated, so you can't file it again."
I'd vaguely consider paying for really really good news and analysis - But we need a heavily honest rating service that rates the content as useful. A 7 page Economist article might get a 9 out of 10, while the ehow SEO'd stuff would be a 2.
Google is just starting to move in this direction re: their recent backlash against "content farms".
I think it's a subset of the related slippery slope problem because if we thought offline software lock-ins were bad, imagine Lock-in 2.0 with oligarchy services especially with the threatened end of net neutrality.
I keep getting modded down for this next bit, but to all the people who keep talking creativity, no one is answering about the middle production side. For books, they just lost one of their two flagship outlets (Borders), and hang on tight if movie cinemas start to close.
Because we're starting to get the effect where X country enacts something, and the multinational corps go "Oh cool! We can block sites now. Now let's do it in more countries." Then the legislatures of countries y and Z go "$ure! Y(en)"
You are hereby ordered to send me anything that doesn't offend your copyright stance so that you can cease being unknown, starting with an audience of one. Now! Author, transform and roll out!
Your thoughful reply still leaves aspects of the problem to be thrashed out. If a Big Box bookstore has some 400 tomes per topic section, "there they are". However if I were to try to look at a big list on Amazon, somehow I find myself getting lost in clicks. Something like click on a title, click on preview, click on chapter 1, make a new browser tab to open Wikipedia to cross check something about the book, and more. This is especially bad for when I am researching nonfiction topics. Nothing beats just opening the tome to see how a Buddhist author handled the notoriously difficult passage in chapter nine where the Pali source was damaged. I haven't yet been able to answer those kinds of queries online yet. If it were all in a Google Scan of some kind maybe - but not with "first chapter and reviews".
Fair reply, but perhaps it doesn't work the same way across all categories. You would be right for fiction novels. However for nonfiction texts, I buy according to what I am or one day want to research. Unless the review is a warning against a badly produced book, reviews for nonfiction are actually irrelevant.
Easy example. I have a strong interest in Buddhism. Seung Sahn in Compass of Zen worked out or re-transmitted an innovation that solves a key problem with many old classical koans. "...Everything is truth, so everything is Buddha. Everything is God, or nature, or mind, or truth. This kind of answer shows metaphysical-style function. However, we encounter many kinds of situations every day that require us to respond more meticulously and clearly. They require some action that works more completely than a mere reflection or explanation of truth. Most situations in our life demand a complete function, some complete action."
This appears on page 232. In a bookstore, a practiced researcher can survey the entire shelf of offerings over a few days, knowing the approximate kinds of answers contained in the 100,000 pages of texts. There is simply no way to determine that a passage like this exists in a text by "heuristic methods" alone.
I'll risk a Redundant by tagging off of your great comment.
Wouldn't this penalize ALL military/ex personnel? "Hello - yes - this is Daniel Johnson of 16380 Main St and we have a situation. My son ripped his whole leg open on some metal debris out in public land that was apparently dumped in violation. Please send a blood trauma crew."
vs.
"Oh my gawd my kid got a nail in his leg after some goddamn moron left a bunch of crap out in the field. Do you think he'll die from tetnus????"
The first chapter is rarely enough for me to determine if I like something. I much prefer scanning a book at a store because I am good at getting the overall flow of a text by flipping through it. The good stuff in most books starts about chapter 3.
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Yes, the trolls are way beyond the one obligatory FP item that everyone ignores.
In the new redesign, the customizable comment modifiers seem much harder to find. The easiest method seems to be http://slashdot.org/my/comments.
For the longest time I used to have a penalty on 1 sentence comments and left the rest alone, but lately some if the informative comments are coming through at 10 words + a link, and the trolls are writing more.
Now I switched it to penalize the last 40,000 accounts created, enough to knock back the 2-mil-uid crew.
I might agree with the ... strong language. We might be in an age seeing the rise of tech oligarchies. Now that Microsoft has absolutely dropped from the Borg colossus to "just a big rich business", Google (as well as Apple, and yes, Linux itself!) have emerged to push away the era when "any of a thousand choices will do". (It used to be Any PC box + MS, then Any hardware phone + a carrier).
So now we have a complex interplay where Google is developing best-in-breed services *beyond* just raw search. Consumers win when new businesses force MS to quit being sloppy. Android pulled the same trick of "free stuff replicates" that MS did with DOS in the early days, except in the hyper world of InterTubes, the effect took off like a rocket in some three years instead of ten. Faced with the future of phones being the sum of Android and iPhone, MS became stuck with yet another ten year track of derailed vision in WinMobile.
Theory time! What if there is room for precisely one-two Walled Gardens and one-two "Lateral Spreads"? (iPod + 10 variants of music players, iPhone + 10 variants of Android, iPad + 10 variants of TabletAndroid)?
Looping back to the question, for people who don't like Walled Gardens, Google (using MS as a spoiler) is sewing up the other half by ensuring that no one can easily do a *third* network because of failed-synergy issues. The only way that would happen is if Google's offerings fell from grace and were *replaced* by a new competitor, which leaves my theory intact.
I decided to "skip a year" of Fringe with an eye towards one day buying the DVD. At the time he seemed interested in playing William Bell for a few episodes, but apparently things didn't work out.
My guess is that over-usage of the objects of Sin Taxes often translate into increased medical / social costs, except the rates may be sawtooth rather than a smooth curve. For example, taxes on cigarettes would possibly offset the public subsidy of Medicare claims *if* the accounting were done honestly.
The problem is now we have a bad problem of the "stated/theoretical" use of some policy, and the "actual/sneaky" bait&switch use of policies.
I currently view these YRO stories as pieces in a game, and games Like combos. Try the combo of this purchase system with Microsoft's neat new proposed law that anyone who purchases something which had a pirated copy of software anywhere in the supply chain can be sued. Or mate it with Microsoft's patent-applied "Database of Blackmail Details".
And for the crew that hope that securing communications is enough, I'm pretty sure that the items are presented on unique trackable webpages, so your choice of any 12 of the 400 companies in Ghostery are going to get a back end link to Google's system and create their own versions of the data, so even if you trust Google and barely trust Microsoft, I certainly don't trust third tier derivative tracking companies.
For all of you Magic the Gathering fans (though I retired) , I'm pretty sure we can start making a Black-Blue-Red symbolic deck out of all this stuff. Deity help my bank account if Wizards created a new set with actual news stories, because their attention to detail accuracy is desperately needed vs the faltering news reportage lately.
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Sure, some great points there. In my view however, the roles are getting ever more sticky. From the govt side, one of the biggest attempts at censorship is coming from the proposed new laws to the effect "unauthorized streaming" (not even copying anymore!) "is a (potential) felony because somewhere, some kid may die from an illegal episode of SpongeBob". So then cue Apple, with their nice cozy walled garden of eden, "everything in the garden is safe, but you wouldn't want to play in the ghetto outside on da internetz".
So then you get Apple in the position of "certifying" stuff, and then it very much matters what the "private comany" decides is kosher. (Pickle extra.)
Very roughly, the relevant legislatures are US, UK, France, China, and Australia and your choice of Pick-Two others. They each have their own spin on things, but over and over of the huge number of countries out there, it's some seven countries constantly in the YRO news.
They could forward it to one of those countries undergoing 8,000% inflation daily, pay it off, then reset the currency and tell the **AA "you were compensated, so you can't file it again."
Wait, is this what the people were paying back in the Matrix, all hooked up to those vitality drainers?
I'd vaguely consider paying for really really good news and analysis -
But we need a heavily honest rating service that rates the content as useful.
A 7 page Economist article might get a 9 out of 10, while the ehow SEO'd stuff would be a 2.
Google is just starting to move in this direction re: their recent backlash against "content farms".
Here you go.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Us_population
I think it's a subset of the related slippery slope problem because if we thought offline software lock-ins were bad, imagine Lock-in 2.0 with oligarchy services especially with the threatened end of net neutrality.
I think there's a big delay, as much as 15 years.
I keep getting modded down for this next bit, but to all the people who keep talking creativity, no one is answering about the middle production side. For books, they just lost one of their two flagship outlets (Borders), and hang on tight if movie cinemas start to close.
Because we're starting to get the effect where X country enacts something, and the multinational corps go "Oh cool! We can block sites now. Now let's do it in more countries." Then the legislatures of countries y and Z go "$ure! Y(en)"
(Snarkiness On!)
"new and unknown writers like myself".
You are hereby ordered to send me anything that doesn't offend your copyright stance so that you can cease being unknown, starting with an audience of one. Now! Author, transform and roll out!
(Snarkiness Off)
Nah, that's Fark.com.
Hi there.
Your thoughful reply still leaves aspects of the problem to be thrashed out. If a Big Box bookstore has some 400 tomes per topic section, "there they are". However if I were to try to look at a big list on Amazon, somehow I find myself getting lost in clicks. Something like click on a title, click on preview, click on chapter 1, make a new browser tab to open Wikipedia to cross check something about the book, and more. This is especially bad for when I am researching nonfiction topics. Nothing beats just opening the tome to see how a Buddhist author handled the notoriously difficult passage in chapter nine where the Pali source was damaged. I haven't yet been able to answer those kinds of queries online yet. If it were all in a Google Scan of some kind maybe - but not with "first chapter and reviews".
Fair reply, but perhaps it doesn't work the same way across all categories. You would be right for fiction novels. However for nonfiction texts, I buy according to what I am or one day want to research. Unless the review is a warning against a badly produced book, reviews for nonfiction are actually irrelevant.
Easy example. I have a strong interest in Buddhism. Seung Sahn in Compass of Zen worked out or re-transmitted an innovation that solves a key problem with many old classical koans. "...Everything is truth, so everything is Buddha. Everything is God, or nature, or mind, or truth. This kind of answer shows metaphysical-style function. However, we encounter many kinds of situations every day that require us to respond more meticulously and clearly. They require some action that works more completely than a mere reflection or explanation of truth. Most situations in our life demand a complete function, some complete action."
This appears on page 232. In a bookstore, a practiced researcher can survey the entire shelf of offerings over a few days, knowing the approximate kinds of answers contained in the 100,000 pages of texts. There is simply no way to determine that a passage like this exists in a text by "heuristic methods" alone.
"Did your phone call end without a complete sentence? Please post the sentence fragment."
I had a post almost ready to go for this, but again it seems something went wrong and it didn't get posted.
Code:
"Yes my farm is doing well. My grass I planted is covering the mud. I should buy a horse to pull my plow."
Praise Bob!
Talk about chilling, you don't even get a notice on your door the next morning; this means someone is listening realtime.
Do they have to start talking in dynamic codes?
"Yes, I have a nice farm. The grass I planted in the mud is doing just fine. Maybe I will get a horse."
I'll risk a Redundant by tagging off of your great comment.
Wouldn't this penalize ALL military/ex personnel? "Hello - yes - this is Daniel Johnson of 16380 Main St and we have a situation. My son ripped his whole leg open on some metal debris out in public land that was apparently dumped in violation. Please send a blood trauma crew."
vs.
"Oh my gawd my kid got a nail in his leg after some goddamn moron left a bunch of crap out in the field. Do you think he'll die from tetnus????"
The first chapter is rarely enough for me to determine if I like something. I much prefer scanning a book at a store because I am good at getting the overall flow of a text by flipping through it. The good stuff in most books starts about chapter 3.