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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Suggesting that a segment of Anonymous /doesn't/ treat him as a figurehead is possibly equally misinformed. Actually, the only informed statement to make about Anonymous is that there isn't such thing as a capital-letter Anonymous. Consider
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Not exactly a great article. The author seems to imply that there wasn't an mp3 player market before the ipod - a factually false statement. I still even have my 125mb AAA battery-powered player lurking somewhere in my closet. And as many c
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
It should be noted that the 4chan macroculture's rather divided as to whether or not Anonymous as protestors should really be considered Anonymous as representative of the *chan culture as a whole. 4chan's founder, Moot, has expressed a rat
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Fun article, especially in context of our hypercaffeinated culture. Been meaning to give the -racetams a shot eventually...
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Maybe it's the repeated failures to get investors that did it. They might need to be reminded that the lack of investors is not necessarily a bad sign - audiences, unlike VCs, have nothing to lose by giving you guys a chance.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I'm somewhat surprised to see that San Francisco's New Bay Bridge is going to cost more than the LHC.
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Seconding this. You're not going to have a perfect site specifically because you haven't launched. Without audience feedback, all you're doing is endlessly second-guessing yourselves - that sort of feedback exacerbates any existing groupthi
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
As if we need another reason to distrust the GOP... Seriously - one of the major arguments for net neutrality is that the lack thereof serves as a serious /threat/ to commercial interests dependent on internet accessibility. Given the GOP's
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
"Yahoo is to tech what General Motors is to autos." - McRib Quite possibly the most epic burn I've seen all month.
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Alternatively, save the entirety of your genetic code as a data file and update it to the latest storage medium every few decades. Even the best-preserved original cells will become unusable after a while.
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Grinders, modders, etc - "Grinders" is Warren Ellis's term for it, and I've been rereading his stuff recently, so... Basically, anybody who starts tinkering with the physical form itself - whether by small modifications, such as improved ey
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
People'll pay for a humaniform body for at least the first few decades. Then the Grinders get involved, and the cultural body image paradigm starts to shift ever so slightly...
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Because a clone will take about two decades to mature? And if it's a full clone, will in all likelihood have its own ideas about who occupies its head? And will probably physically develop different from you, as development is partially env
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Would be a pity if Kurzweil's predictions follows the path of fusion energy - always, eternally, twenty years away. At any rate, I question the practicality of /physical/ immortality. If we're swapping out blood and organs with effectively
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I'd say that a rating based on the number of favorites makes more sense. It's less arbitrary than the five-star system, in that it tracks the nominal level of interest in the video. People don't generally favorite a video at random, so any
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Pratchettian characters work rather well.
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You know, this might be the first time in a few years that I've appreciated an FCC policy.
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TechCrunch itself points out the primary fallacy of TC50 in the first place: "One of the best things about TechCrunch50 is not what happens on stage, but what happens before companies even get there. Startups that don’t even have a working
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
A better question, perhaps: Has a digital music revolution /actually happened yet?/
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Would've loved, say, a dozen of these lasers every time I visit relatives back in Taiwan.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
While the critique is not without basis, perhaps part of the problem is that the industry's a tad spoiled by a constant string of game-changers? Not even the transhumanists are claiming that innovation's going to happen in consistently acce
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
What's really hilarious is that the RIAA spent gods knows how much money developing a program that kids will outright ignore anyhow.
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Content still matters for the very simple reason that the lack of decent content means you don't have an audience to sell to advertisers - imagine if the Economist's only rival was a website written by middle school geeks. It is, effectivel
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Knots! One of the few things about the Boy Scout program that I still remember and find useful. Much gratitude for posting this link.
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There's something decidedly cannibalistic about the business of music rights management. At what point is it simply easier to hire an in-house musician and be done with the mountains of paperwork, days of haggling and thousands of dollars c
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I almost suspect that my school district's former chancellor had her hand in this. It seems very much something that Martha Kanter would propose - and rightfully so, as California's community colleges are especially feeling the budget crunc
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Yahoo rethinks web content charges policy(ft.com)
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So... it turns an iphone into a blackberry? I'm terribly amused.
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Eh, calling BS on this. The sheer attention TC gets from TC50 is going to prove too much of a temptation for either party to stay away for long. Neither Arrington's temper nor Calcanis's smarm will be sufficient barriers to another conferen