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enkidu \| 2010-03-11 \| The U.S. Postal Service is at a tipping point ...
The US postal service is a dead philosophy.
enkidu \| 2010-03-11 \| Laser etching--Why not your body, too?
Context?
Ryan \| 2010-03-11 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
Landingi one of these wouldn't be so bad. (This is a much more recreational type of jetpack).
Ryan \| 2010-03-11 \| Is democracy less conducive to long-term thinking as compared to other forms of government, such as monarchy?
I think that our system of representative democracy (In the US) makes it worse. In the eample of New Orleans and Katrina; the dikes and the water were things that the residents of New Orleans could see, understand, and pressure their representatives accordingly. Things like taxes, however, have got several layers of abstraction between constituents deciding to write letters, and seeing things happen. It's far away, and it's never seen. People would likely not vote to increase their taxes if the increase were to fund the development of water treatment methods because it isn't something that they can see. I think that this is a major problem. People are being asked to elect representatives who will vote on matters that they mostly don't care about.
Isaac \| 2010-03-11 \| Is democracy less conducive to long-term thinking as compared to other forms of government, such as monarchy?
As for democracy specifically, the first speaker gives an excellent example of the Maeslantkering, build to withstand a storm that might only arrive once in 10,000 years, costing over 660 million euro. On the other hand, the US experience Hurricane Katrina, a once-in-100-years event, and their lack of planning now costs them billions of dollars. Short-sightedness is independent of the system of government.
Isaac \| 2010-03-11 \| Is democracy less conducive to long-term thinking as compared to other forms of government, such as monarchy?
Short-sightedness has always been a problem, in all systems of government, and in all human endeavors, really. Humanity is short-sighted. If humanity had long-term thinking, there would be no war and no hunger.
Cody \| 2010-03-11 \| Coheed and Cambria have released a high-concept music video for 'The Broken
Sci- Fi fans watch this.
Cody \| 2010-03-11 \| Coheed and Cambria have released a high-concept music video for 'The Broken
This video is an epic space battle.
Cody \| 2010-03-10 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
Landing a Jetpack can't be fun.
Ryan \| 2010-03-10 \| Hipster have thoughts, too.
Is neutral milk hotel currently hip? I thought there were cool like...5 years ago?
kino101 \| 2010-03-10 \| Monsanto Draws Antitrust Scrutiny- Regulators Offer Competitors, Farmers and Activists a Platform to Gripe About Crop Biotech Giant
good news or just yet another empty gesture?
kino101 \| 2010-03-10 \| Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat PTSD?
suicide is a growing problem so I can understand the military's concern. disregarding the obvious slant of this article I still think more effort should be applied towards efficacy and dangers. or is the military just trying to get the job done quicker? maybe it would be a good idea to follow the money, is anyone responsible for protocol drug treatments in the military receiving monies from AstraZeneca? and if so, how much, for how long, and to what effect? (does Rumsfeld or Cheney own stock? smells like it...)
kino101 \| 2010-03-10 \| Obama is boxed in.
a civil trial, criminal trial, might show citizens(and the world)that the government has confidence in the legal system. a system that has worked(?) for some time. a step in the right direction, imo. all in, Obama's presidency will win or lose based on this particularly obnoxious piece of legislation
Joel \| 2010-03-10 \| What the crap? Ohio Death Row Inmate on Suicide Watch After Overdose
Indeed. Perhaps I will have a stronger presence in the force now that my current job requires me to sit in front of a computer once again.
Natalie \| 2010-03-10 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
Aaaaak! Well played.
Luke \| 2010-03-10 \| China's Exports Rise 46%
They just get stuff done in China
Ryan \| 2010-03-10 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
That's what she said. /me runs.
Cody \| 2010-03-10 \| Colbert & Daily Shows removed from Hulu, effective today
Don't worry you can still watch Jay Leno on Hulu.
Natalie \| 2010-03-10 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
It's sorta...bigger than I'd hoped.
Travers \| 2010-03-10 \| Russian Bathroom Cleaning Robot is Pointless, Looks Awesome
Clean bathroom? What?
Ryan \| 2010-03-10 \| DIY cleanroom on a budget
It's better than some of the other things I've seen. One of them includes running your shower to steam up a room... ...yeah.
Ryan \| 2010-03-10 \| Russian Bathroom Cleaning Robot is Pointless, Looks Awesome
How freaking hard is it to just clean a bathroom...I mean...it takes, what? 10 minutes?
Travers \| 2010-03-09 \| DIY cleanroom on a budget
Hard drives? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Yeah...
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| Russian Bathroom Cleaning Robot is Pointless, Looks Awesome
Well maybe not THAT pointless, I thought it was just for cleaning bathtubs at first. :)
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| India wants affirmative action for women in parliment
This is hardly democratic.
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| 1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
Hmm, how does flipping bits reveal the key? How are they able to control which bits get flipped? From the original article: Although this paper only discusses the problem, the professors say they've identified a solution. It's a common cryptographic technique called "salting" that changes the order of the digits in a random way every time the key is requested. This is kind of silly, because as far as I understand it they've already shown that a lot of things you would use encryption for (passwords) are vulnerable if you don't salt. It's interesting that this is a new type of attack though.
Ryan \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
It really is depressing though :(.
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| Why news editors will become community moderators
I approve. If librarians can adapt to the information age, the media can adjust to the internet.
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
*could have
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
You could phrased this in a slightly less depressing way. :P
Cody \| 2010-03-09 \| Synthetic Marijuana?
I heard it speeds your heart instead of making you chill out.
Travers \| 2010-03-09 \| Was someone looking for gears?
And I quote (myself): Oh my god, look at all those f* gears!
Cody \| 2010-03-09 \| What the crap? Ohio Death Row Inmate on Suicide Watch After Overdose
Joel lives!
Ryan \| 2010-03-09 \| It's 2010, my jetpack is finally here!
From slashdot: Jetpacks? This Mexican Rocketeer's Been Flying Them In His Backyard For Years
Ryan \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
It's also a huge contributor to obesity. It's really counter-intuitive, but this is why poor people are fat. When you can eat yourself into a stupor with $5 and a dollar menu, well...
Natalie \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
It's funny that today, simple food is the luxury food and processed stuff is cheap...
Cody \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
I'm still waiting for pill meals and flying cars.
Luke \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
Thanks, It took me a long time to get all my thoughts together about how people live in cycles yet always think they are the first to do something.
Cody \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement
Good point Luke.
Luke \| 2010-03-09 \| The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement

Travers \| 2010-03-09 \| 1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
Physical access.
Ariel \| 2010-03-09 \| Coffee Lens
I'm in!
Luke \| 2010-03-09 \| When a geek runs your website...
http://aram.xkcd.com/color/
Ryan \| 2010-03-09 \| When a geek runs your website...
Reference?
Luke \| 2010-03-09 \| When a geek runs your website...
Not very exciting, but I enjoyed finding it.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Coffee Lens
Weekend project to source some broken lenses?
Ariel \| 2010-03-08 \| Coffee Lens
Chyea!! I saw the digital mockup of it a year or so ago and have been envious ever since. P.S. I checked with an Olympic photo source, who said he did not, in fact, see any lens-shaped mugs being dispersed. Tragic.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Huge soviet-era ground-effect "plane" [pictures]
It's a ground-effect-plane... Basically, it flies a few feet above the water, so it has the benefits of a boat (go in a straight line: pretty flat, etc.) without all of the resistance of having to push water out of the way. Those jet engines force air under the wings, and propel it forward. They're really really fast (~550km/hr).
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Was someone looking for gears?
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 That's awesome! :-D!
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
Or they just rented a botnet, which can be done cheaply now, and spat a bunch of keys at the machines so that they could be "validated". I'm assuming that the validation mechanism server-side either rejects the key right off (too long, too short, just text that suys "FOOOK YOUUU!!!!" etc. etc.), or tries to validate it. Hork a bunch of seemily valid looking keys at the machines and overload them with requests. Sorry, ubisoft, but you lose. Please insert another quarter.
Travers \| 2010-03-08 \| Huge soviet-era ground-effect "plane" [pictures]
Tango foxtrot is this thing? A boat with jet engines?
Travers \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
Correction: there was a crack in 24 hours.
Travers \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
Guess it's a rumor mostly. Either way, I would not be surprised if some vigilantes are nailing the Ubisoft machines. It should not be too hard to put together, and scale, a few servers on a phat pipe that can do some cryptographic authentication periodically.
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
If paying users got locked out of the latest world of warcraft expansion mass suicide would be inevitable.
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
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Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
Where'd you hear about the DDOS? Last I heard, we were chalking this up to stupidity on Ubisoft's part a la hanlon's razor...
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| How Obama is making the same mistakes as Bush.

Travers \| 2010-03-08 \| Ubisoft implements DRM for games. Madness ensues.
These games were cracked the second day out. And, some group(s) are DDOSing their authentication servers. All I have to say is: haha.
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Huge soviet-era ground-effect "plane" [pictures]

Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Iraq, having beaten most of its insurgents, holds an election on March 7th. But its institutions may be too weak, and its politicians too greedy, to save democracy

Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
Yay. :) I can't believe I'm starting arguments about socks, I need to chill today. Sorry!
Luke \| 2010-03-08 \| Iraq, having beaten most of its insurgents, holds an election on March 7th. But its institutions may be too weak, and its politicians too greedy, to save democracy
Don't like Cody put you down like that Mother Russia, Smit him!
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Huge soviet-era ground-effect "plane" [pictures]
You scare me, USSR.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
/me glances down. Yes. Don't get me wrong, if I'm getting dressed up for something, I'll get some good dress socks (the kind with the triangles on them!), but if I'm just hanging out at the office doing graphics work or code or whatever, matching socks really really really don't matter to me.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate
Well...to be honest, it still really stranges me out when I see people openly carrying guns. Have you ever fired a handgun? It's not complicated. A four year old could do it. Point Click Die That scares the hell out of me. Soooo much power concentrated in one place, and everybody carrying one around with them? What the hell, right? Unfortunately, it's like the story...once gibson looks over the wall, he can't "unlook". Similarly, once we as humans developed weapons...we can't undevelop them. I'm pro gun control, I think everybody (except maybe some really crazy sociopaths) are pro gun control, just like I'm pro nationalized healthcare, pro social security, pro welfare, pro communism, pro everything to better humanity so long as it is actually going to work. Unfortunately gun control, like communism, won't ever work. Sorry, hippies...
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
But in reality, do you actually wear mismatched socks?
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate
I don't trust people to be safe and not escalate the situation or cause accidents that kill people. And how do I know that guy in the Starbucks over there isn't the bad guy? I'd almost support open carry only, just so I could know to avoid these people. Is this ignorant and intolerant of me? It's so normal to people here and in many states that my position seems incredibly weird to them. But this is so bizarre to me! The logical extension of your argument above is that everyone would carry a gun. Not cool.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
Biodomes, hello!! Aside from that, I'm not saying stay there permanently :P
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
lol, that could actually be both hilarious and awesome and I fully support it.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate
Carry guns? Because it promotes peace (omg counter-intuitive like whoa!). Basically, there are two ways that you can deal with a problem that you come across: Physically, meaning "I am going to give you my wallet because you are stronger than me and I don't want to get killed!" and Logically "No I am not going to give you my wallet because it is mine. Eff off". The good thing about everybody having guns is that it forces the second condition; it levels the playing field. If you have a gun and demand something from me, my choices are to give it to you because you are effectively stronger than I am...if we both have guns, it means that we are equally strong, neither has an advantage, and it forces us to deal with the problem logically. If we could completely get rid of guns...then completely get rid of knives...then completely get rid of bows and arrows...then completely get rid of sharpened sticks...then completely get rid of rocks...then completely get rid of anything else that is heavy and could be thrown...then somehow make everybody the same strengh...well then maybe gun control would work. In the real world, however, bad guys are always going to have weapons. Gun control is, in effect, saying "we are only going to allow criminals to have guns", because it is unenforceable.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
Men's socks only come in 2 varieties: clean and dirty; they should be paired accordingly.
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Data visualization expert Edward Tufte has been appointed to help track and explain stimulus spending.
haha! I thought you were making fun of me for, uh, being the first to comment on the thread? I was confused. :)
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Iraq, having beaten most of its insurgents, holds an election on March 7th. But its institutions may be too weak, and its politicians too greedy, to save democracy
Russia? haha
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Data visualization expert Edward Tufte has been appointed to help track and explain stimulus spending.
haha never mind I thought you were talking about Carl Sagan I thought you posted in the wrong space.
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Data visualization expert Edward Tufte has been appointed to help track and explain stimulus spending.
What?
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
If their socks are consistent I fully support this service, omg. Pairing men's socks is the most annoying thing ever. "Yeah these are both white and the same height but this one has less dense vertical stripes, so they don't go together"
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| Data visualization expert Edward Tufte has been appointed to help track and explain stimulus spending.
Who are you talking to Natalie?
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
By that logic they should put the male models on the female underwear. :P
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity
This seems like a positive thing, but it's a bit scary that they're finding major "side effects" they didn't expect.
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate
Im all for open-carry laws, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights advocacy organization in Washington State. But I dont think flaunting it is very productive for our cause. It just scares people. Um, yes. Oh, I didn't realize you were all carrying guns! That reminds me: why the bloody hell are you allowed to do that?
Natalie \| 2010-03-08 \| Data visualization expert Edward Tufte has been appointed to help track and explain stimulus spending.
Weeeeeeird! I have a bunch of his books.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Synthetic Marijuana?
They sell this at the herb shop in Tempe.
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| The size of our world
"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." Carl Sagan.
Cody \| 2010-03-08 \| The size of our world
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds." Carl Sagan
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| How Did General Intelligence Evolve?
Hmm...don't most high-order mammals (wolves, whales, primates) do this too? They want to establish a pack (or a pod), want to find a good place to hunt, etc. ? I think the difference between intelligence or lack of it is becoming an active part of your environment, instead of just passively existing in it. Hmm...crap. Fish do this to (salmon migration for laying eggs is active), so do birds...although they're not doing it consciously..? Crap, now I'm never going to fall asleep! GAHH! :)
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Coffee Lens
I vote we go to get some old lenses and make these! :)
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| MIT research uses information about how frequently objects are seen together to refine the conclusions of object recognition systems.
But what if your daughter asks the robot to jump out of the window, giving it intelligence, and then the robot breaks your other daughter's glass horse, feels bad about it, makes her another one, gets some creepy skin grafts, decide's he wants to be human, and marries your great-granddaughter? Awwwwkkkkwaaarrrdddddd.
Ryan \| 2010-03-08 \| Man packs - Never go to the underwear aisle at wal mart ever again.
Hey, hanes et al: here is an idea for you. Stop having half naked dudes as underwear models and start using girls. We'll get the point (what type of boxers are these?) and the stupid part of our brain will draw our eyeballs to your packaging because it means we get to look at something other than some other guys...uhh...packaging. I am claiming prior art on this idea.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| MIT research uses information about how frequently objects are seen together to refine the conclusions of object recognition systems.
Omigosh, I so want a robot that can bring me my stapler. Or a particular book or pair of socks. That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! (not from a practicality standpoint, just for the sheer fun of it).
Ariel \| 2010-03-07 \| Coffee Lens
ARE YOU SERIOUS? I totally would have snuck into the press center if I knew about this.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| How Did General Intelligence Evolve?
This was interesting, I thought. The example non-recurring problems they listed all had to do with trying to establish permanence (having reliable food sources, building a family...) Why did humans start doing this? We start to do all these complex things, like building things and planning, in order to get things we want. Animals don't want things as complicated as we do. It was about survival still, but longer-term survival.
thom \| 2010-03-07 \| Iraq, having beaten most of its insurgents, holds an election on March 7th. But its institutions may be too weak, and its politicians too greedy, to save democracy
Institutions too weak, politicians too greedy, failing democracy, hmmmmm. sounds a lot like this other country i've heard of....
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| How Did General Intelligence Evolve?
This article says a lot without really saying much. It also sortof treated intelligence as if it were a binary condition, which it isn't. In other words: nice r-complex, Cody. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahaha Just kidding, this article covered what is probably my favorite topic. I just wish that it would have gone a bit deeper into how intelligence arose, and not just that it did and then concluding that it isn't that important. I think that intelligence is based on what I call "fuzzy thinking". That is, being able to glance at my bedroom door, know that it is open, but then be able to imagine what would be different if it were closed. Obviously, high-order intelligence didn't just pop into existence over one generation, but I think it started with "what would things be like if that predator was oh-so-slightly over there." Get advanced enough an ability to think fuzzily, and you get an imagination. I think that imagination is the basis of intelligence.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
The moon doesn't have nearly enough TREES.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
Wow, I'd never heard of this. This is kind of cool. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing that it's been "taken over" by places with cheap labor...if people are making a living off it, that's actually a great thing.
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
No I don't. I'm just hoping that I can capitalize on the advertising stuff to fund my moonbase ;-)
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
Here was an "experiment" where a guy paid 50 turkers to take a picture of themselves: http://www.thestever.net/ If you look at some of the pictures, it looks like different guys, but at the same location. There are shops in India where you can get a job as a mechanical turker. I don't think this will be any different.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
I somehow don't think so. Those people likely don't have time to browse the internet waiting for little jobs to come by? Some of these people don't quite get the concept that they're only getting 4 bucks per gig though. They're offering to ship stuff back (already more than $4) and spend several hours on the job. Wish there was a way to see what people were actually buying... I'm fascinated by this, it's so weird to see what people are coming up with. Maybe because it's a miniature version of a "real" economy. Exchanging tiny units of value. What unique service could you offer for 5 bucks that would take no more time than $4 is worth to you? Try thinking of one, it's an interesting challenge.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| The size of our world
The Earth is so cuuuute :)
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
You have far too much faith in humanity.
Cody \| 2010-03-07 \| Attacks Strike Baghdad as Iraqis Vote in Pivotal Election
They only want fundamentalist religious leaders to have power.
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Attacks Strike Baghdad as Iraqis Vote in Pivotal Election
What the hell are these people trying to prove? "No! We refuse to choose our leaders!" wtf?
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
I don't know, I think it will eventually... One of the greatest things about ads in magazines is that they're useful. I remember when I got all obsessed with wanting to build a music studio in my (someday) house...my education about what was what and what it did came mostly from buying recording industry mags and reading the ads. I think it will only be a matter of time before web ads take the same course. There are already "viral" videos that are fun to watch. There was one here the other day about a guy "cutting" a cable in a datacenter and watching the admin freak out (it was an illusion). That stuff, as well as real, informative ads, are the future (I hope). One of the major things that will help these things along is a format change. As much as I hate to say it (because I hate the thing), the iPad is really great for this. It replicates the page turning interface of a magazine, and allows for controlled size, full-page, interstitial ads. /me shakes fist at apple
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
What was it? This seems like something that will very rapidly be overtaken by a third-world country with absurdly cheap labor (a la mechanical turk). I hope it doesn't turn in to "I will write your website for $5!" although I'm pretty sure it will :(.
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| The size of our world
I'm torn. On the one hand, this makes all the things I care about in the world seem totally insignificant and pointless. On the other hand, it accentuates their importance; they're all I've got and they're all I'm ever going to have. Life outside of of the "pointless minutia" of my existence is so vast, so staggeringly large, that I'll never be able to understand it. hm
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
I put something up as an experiment. :) Apparently you can't withdraw $ until you've earned $40.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
I say: put time and thought into ads and make them a fun experience. I like shopping online, you'd think looking at ads ought to be a bit like that but it's absolutely not. You don't NEED to grab our attention with things that pop or flash or move or make sound. Show us a cool example of the product in use or something, make us laugh, use statistics on who we are more effectively to show us things that aren't "targeted," but "selected." Be honest about what you're selling! Not gonna happen, I know...
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
Uck, I'd rather deal with ads than logging in and needing to keep track of how much I'm spending. Although that might helpfully limit my time spent online. :)
Ryan \| 2010-03-07 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
However, I do think it would be nice if websites had a better business model. They will, I think it's just going to take time. Micropayments are going to be the future of content on the internet, I could even seen them being rolled into what you pay your ISP. You get a $10 "balance" to spend every time you pay your bill to cox. Want to read that article on NYtimes? $0.10 + $0.01 surcharge to COX. It's also going to take a while for advertisers to come around to the internet. Buying print ads and buying internet ads is an entirely different game. Print ads are really expensive, digital ads are not. Hopefully this will change soon :).
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Men 'become more accident prone in front of beautiful women'
I wonder if the severity of the injury is proportional to the level of attractiveness of the lady.
Natalie \| 2010-03-07 \| Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5
Wow, this is fascinating on so many levels! New economic models in the world, I like.
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| How the media thinks image processing works
Reminds me of the CSI GUI one. :)
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
I agree with you. Advertising sucks and does all the unpleasant things to people that he says, but I'm not expecting content for free. If a site is TOO annoying, the content isn't worth the price and I won't go anymore (this is why I don't watch TV). He might be all proud of himself for paying for his site rather than making people watch ads, but he's getting something out of the readership. Nobody gives anything away for free, and they shouldn't have to! However, I do think it would be nice if websites had a better business model.
Cody \| 2010-03-06 \| John Mayer Trio - California Dreamin'
I prefer Buckethead.
Cody \| 2010-03-06 \| Shark vs Octopus
Don't cross a Octopus. Please recognize their power you small brained shark!
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
This made me so happy. :)
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
Ummmmmmm er...They'll infiltrate both sides and end wars!
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Advertising is devastating to my well being.
I submitted this because I think it could open a good dialog. In my opinion, vote with your eyeballs; if you don't like the ads on a site, stop using it.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
Octopus might be my new favorite animal. They seem to have developed a form of intelligence, but they forked away from us on the evolutionary tree a long time ago... Really really cool.
Travers \| 2010-03-06 \| How the media thinks image processing works
That was painful.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| John Mayer Trio - California Dreamin'
If you don't like John Mayer, you're an idiot.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
...do you mean like for wars and stuff? As in: weapons? ...who are you, where is Natalie?!
Cody \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
I'm not sure if they have the BACKBONE for that sort of mission.
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
That is AWESOME! We should train octopi to infiltrate submarines and stuff.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Airbnb - Travel like a human.
I'm talking about this
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Airbnb - Travel like a human.
No, I'm too much of a wimp haha. Probably safer to do it when traveling with someone else. I will try it sometime!
Cody \| 2010-03-06 \| Airbnb - Travel like a human.
Ryan this has nothing to do with hackers.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Airbnb - Travel like a human.
I think that this actually started as a way for hackers to live with one another. The first time I heard of it, they were doing a thing called the "Hacker House"; it was a sortof camp for startup people. They bought a house, and set up a bunch of tents in the backyard. The idea was to bring a bunch of smart people together. Have you ever done couchsurfing?
Cody \| 2010-03-06 \| Clever Octopus Mimics a Fish
"They've been seen building mobile homes out of coconut shells, and occasionally cause havoc in aquariums by disassembling valves or short-circuiting lights"
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| How the media thinks image processing works
I couldn't make it all the way through because it was just soooo awkward :(. "We just got these omglolwut algorithms from NASA and I'll just plug them in here type type type type type" /facepalm
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| Airbnb - Travel like a human.
Couchsurfing for the middle class.
Natalie \| 2010-03-06 \| How the media thinks image processing works
Sorry, meant to put youtube warning.
Ryan \| 2010-03-06 \| Police board anti-whaling ship w/warrant (Sea Shepherd )
Befriend (or purchase) a senator.
kino101 \| 2010-03-05 \| Police board anti-whaling ship w/warrant (Sea Shepherd )
it is past time to study research to find what whale calls mean get out, stay away. or to broadcast what is the most irritating sonar frequencies wherever a whaler operates. frankly I simply don't understand why greenpeace, w/all their money hasn't experimented w/this exhaustively. there are bound to be certain frequencies that at least bother whales. and given their intelligence, how long before they recognize certain frequencies w/danger? ideas like these are why I make the big bucks...dammit, how to get people to listen to my obvious genius?
Ryan \| 2010-03-05 \| MTV's Jersey Shore: The Ultimate Feminist Statement?
I know a lot of people really hate this show, but you know what? I don't. In fact, I love it. In fact I think we should have more shows just like it, and television stations that play it 24 hours a day, and eventually full-immersion VR helmets that jack directly into peoples' seratonin, adrenaline, and neurepinephrine receptors to give them the ultimate "real" chemical experience. Why? Because this crap is disgusting to me, but fighting it only keeps people that seek it out that much closer to the demarcation point between "people I wish to surround myself with" and "those which I believe are a burden to society". I hope that clubs get special licenses to open up 24 hours a day, and then build condos above them so that club dwellers really can be club dwellers. I hope that clubs start out-doing one another and purchasing private islands for people to live on and "party 24/7 while working on your tan!"...I hope they build a club on the moon; anything so that I never have to see, hear about, think about, or deal with this nonsensical disaster of a subculture that consumes Jersey Shore and its offspring.
Ryan \| 2010-03-05 \| Disaster Psychology: Protect the Women...If There's Time
Hmm...I'm not sure I follow you. I'm just commenting on that societal norms happen when things are normal. When the shit hits the fan, however, so do they. In the case of the Titanic, nobody went into full on panic mode until near the very end. Up until that, things were normal, the band was playing, and men were trying to show off to women by letting them on the boats first. The Lusitania saw the gravity of the situation set in much more quickly. I guess a good analog would be a theater that is on fire, vs a theater where the movie has ended. Up until the last few minutes of the Titanic, the people just thought the movie was over...on the Lusitania, they knew it was on fire the whole time.
Natalie \| 2010-03-05 \| Disaster Psychology: Protect the Women...If There's Time
That's not what I meant. It's not unchivalrous if you don't have time to find a lady to help because you're drowning. It's not particularly chivalrous if you're following crew member instructions not to get into lifeboats until the women and children get in.
Natalie \| 2010-03-05 \| Hacked Roomba will google your house
This is fun! Would work even better if you obsessively label everything.
enkidu \| 2010-03-05 \| Free audio books
This is pretty awesome.
enkidu \| 2010-03-05 \| Starbucks to release larger coffee size called "trenta", which will be 31 ounces.
They're doing this to compete with McDonalds iced coffee. The difference is that the former, with a sausage and egg sandwich, is about $5. The same meal at Starbucks is >$10 (and not as good).
enkidu \| 2010-03-05 \| MTV's Jersey Shore: The Ultimate Feminist Statement?
[ ]Yes [x]No Somehow I doubt the feminists are very proud of women that intentionally reduce themselves to sexual objects only.
enkidu \| 2010-03-05 \| The Toyota Witch Hunt.
To me, the Toyota thing is a sortof neo-industrial-sabotage. Do you remember the ford exploder problem? Were people talking about putting the ford CEO on trial for that?
enkidu \| 2010-03-05 \| Obama is boxed in.
I admit to extreme disappointment if he caves on civil trial for KSM Out of curiosity, why do want a civil trial for him? I disagree with you on Obama being "All In"...on anything. I think he's trying to be conservative (not in the political sense), and I really can't figure out why. Granted, he isn't a dictator, he still has to get the approval of congress, but it seems like he isn't even trying anymore :(.
Nancy.Reagan \| 2010-03-05 \| Starbucks to release larger coffee size called "trenta", which will be 31 ounces.
Perfect usage of the subject "We Are Doomed".
kino101 \| 2010-03-05 \| Gendercide (Informative and tragic article)
what is the most effective, time tested method for getting rid of extra males? this is an answer I don't wish to contemplate much.
Ryan \| 2010-03-05 \| Coffee Lens
Ahhh, that's not fair! I want this!
Ryan \| 2010-03-05 \| Police board anti-whaling ship w/warrant (Sea Shepherd )
I have a love hate relationship with these people. I absolutely, and wholeheartedly despise the Japanese whalers. I think that is absolutely disgusting, and something that the world shouldn't tolerate. To me, it's sad that a bunch of incompetent vegan hippies seem to be the only ones taking a firm stance against this. That said...watching what these people do is kindof sad...if you ever watch their documentary/show "Whale Wars", it's basically just them standing around looking sad and confused while whales get killed in front of them. Still, though, I support their sentiments.
kino101 \| 2010-03-05 \| The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era -- where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics
knowledge is not power. the exercise of knowledge is. GBers have more balls the the typical american, but that might be partially due to how protestations have been dealt w/during the last decade or so. still, this is disingenuous at best. to claim that people knowing about corporatism translates to action is a non-starter. when was the last effective boycott pulled off, grapes? I'd say more but I'm busy swallowing bile at the moment.
kino101 \| 2010-03-05 \| Police board anti-whaling ship w/warrant (Sea Shepherd )
"The spineless Rudd Government has laid charges, including throwing of rancid butter." this qualifies for wtf?
kino101 \| 2010-03-05 \| Security analysts warn Germany's push for the removal of the US nuclear weapons from its soil could have dramatic strategic consequences, including inadvertently fuelling a Middle East arms race and reaffirming the need for US military might in Europe.
oh my god, peace might break out! Gates has his head so far up his ass...What a tack to take, insult them...aren't the days of american arrogance about over? shouldn't the US should try to get ahead of the curve by at least pretending to be civil, to respect the wishes of sovereign countries? off on a different tack again, what's up w/Clinton? she's not garnering much respect either. could Obama's choices have been poorly thought out? (and who is gonna be appointed to SCOTUS? perhaps the most important decision of this presidency. there's hope to reverse the complete corporatism of the US, will Obama let the citizens down again, as in FISA, the renewal of the Patriot Act, w/even its few privacy safeguards stripped, and last but most important, will his edict of indefinite detention be challenged? ...sigh...)