Cool. Kinda looks like Gehry's Winton Guest House.

"never having owned a cell phone" - A New Challenger

No offense meant at all Challenger, but where I'm from (the northeast of the États Unis), cellphones have outpaced line phones by a large margin (at least among the below 30 set).

I'd like to know where you live, because I have good reason to suspect that this phenomenon will spread.

Just a point of interest,

-TFM

I find that content, in my innocent mind, is the domain of the editors and contributors, and that advertisement is explicitly separated from this. The conflation worries me. I don't expect any influence from Honda on the content of BB. I will continue to come here. I just think that the perception that this gives is not a positive one, and want to defend that position.

Or, in the words of my father whenever he's worried about some remote possibility of harm befalling me, "You know, I just worry."

I'm making too much of this. But I think I've got a few valid points.

Ugh. It's not about money. It's about trust. Damn it. It's not that hard to understand why this might upset some people. Put a goddamn "Honda makes the best engines in the world!" slogan on the corner of every post, and I'd feel a little better about this. At least it doesn't seem that the line between content and content moderation could potentially be compromised.

I'm not saying that the content is compromised, it's the ambiguous *perception* of this potential that bothers me.

I might be overreacting, and I apologize.

#25:The quality of the product is not important. They are internal combustion engines and products derived from that technology.

Not being particularly infamous does not exclude their participation in promoting devices that degrade the environment.

Immediate knee-jerk responses are by definition irrational. I am not making an irrational argument.

It still holds that Honda promote technology that is currently at odds with the environment.

Anyway.

I have NO problem with BiongBoing making money. I saw the Honda ads earlier and I supported the attention that a new big name sponsor would garner. Egads, with all the work that they've done for the anti-DRM movement and for general nuttiness in general, I salute them. And, to an extent, I find that the explicit disclosure of the sponsored sections forthright. However, these sponsored sections, in my mind and IMHO, start to converge with the content I value. This troubles me.

Lol@#1

"Fripperous" and "frippery" have just re-entered my daily vocabulary.

The approach could have been better, but thanks for telling us. Still, even if there is no hideous underhanded conspiracy, isn't this just a bit tacky? I mean....ugh.

There wouldn't be any game if there weren't playas.

Because of the reason #14 promoted, I also feel that "icky" is the best way to describe the incongruity of a corporation based on sales of internal combustion engines supporting a section on "environment" on a major site.

Explicitly, there's nothing wrong with it. Implicitly, there's a whole slew of potential problems.

Also: "The Power of Dreams"?

Fuck that with a handgun.

Wow! Wow!

I live in New Haven, a block away from Modern. I've eaten pizza from everywhere. It's Modern FTW!

RRSAFETY, is this recent? In my experience, it takes CC a little bit to catch on. Keep looking at he performance, it might drop...

I wonder if this means that the filtering is being done more upstream than regional hubs?

We need a nonprofit ISP. I'd pay a premium.

I've also been running Wireshark (along with a few other applications) and I agree with this conclusion.

I'm a client of Comcast.

The holders of so called IP should wise up. There's an immense amount of content still under copyright law in the US. So much that they'd be making a bit of money simply charging a small amount for access. Perhaps one could pay a dollar a month for access to everything before 1930ish. That alone would gain a small amount of capital. It might not be lucrative, but it would be something.

Plus: it would increase the amount of recordings present of works still under copyright. An increase of recordings increases the chances that it will be preserved. "Battleship Potemkin" is free, and considered a great work of art. Copying is not inhibited.

A ton of other works, due to the inordinately long terms of US copyright law, are not.

My line is drawn at the point at which conservation and propagation overwhelms the need for capital gain on the part of the copyright owners, IMHO.

Comparing the loss that copyright might incur by ignoring older works still under copyright with the gains by which these owners might benefit from relatively low-cost distribution might convince people to forgo monetary compensation for societal appreciation or potential longevity.

Just a perspective....

"Steampunk" is, most of the time, a wish for an analogue for explicit manifestation of the hidden. Specifically, it's a display of the interpretation of the popularly mysterious and evolving gears of the internet.

Human communication has come to rely, at least partially, on the internet. The need for transparency in this new mode of communication has created a backlash and its representation.

Nothing's turned on its head.

All that's being represented are what's been the facts of the matter for 50+ years.

Exposure of fact does not change fact.

I'm assuming that it's a DivX player because it's hosted on Stage 6, DivX's Youtube-esque site. It's not a bad piece of software, anyway.

The music industry is in flames, and it's only going to get far, far more entertaining in 2008. If this is the year the music industry "broke," then 2008 will see its collapse.

"Unless BoingBoing is making the automatic presumption that consumer = citizen and corporate power = governmental power, which is grim but inaccurate and uncalled for."

Well, from a previous story on BB today, there you go. World ain't so rosy now, is it?

Another example of foreign government, corporation, and state.

"Also, kicking ignorant politicians in the crotch, hard and repeatedly, is not unlike petting a kitten. It brings one feelings of peace and, if not exactly true love, a reasonable facsimile thereof.

At least that's what I read on the internets, and when has it ever lied to me?"

May the Lord God bless you, Halloween Jack.

Was it *McCain*, a firm republican, who pointed out that Japanese officers used to be *hung* for waterboarding by the Japanese government during WWII? Please follow up if I'm wrong.

The republican platforms during this election are more closely matching the phrase "a wretched hive of scum and villainy" every day. I believe this to be an empirical statement.

Why wouldn't a McDonald's want people to stick around? I've never seen a lack of parking nor a lack of seating. If you can afford it, why not allow people to congregate comfortably? Goodness gracious! They might do it again! Heavens!

Don't these places care about people?

A-fucking-men.

I think he'd be delighted. I don't know about the reanimation of his corpse, though. He seemed to believe in some sort of deity. The mental image of Lincoln's corpse spinning within a generator is an indefatigable moodlifter, however. Thank you boingboing.

Wonderful! Now perhaps they could offer their workers a decent living!

I don't have sympathy for the invisible hand of the market when it's been slapping people silly for so long.

And why are we hoping for the revitalization of the major label system, exactly?

Isn't PDF an open standard? Am I wrong? I certainly don't use Acrobat to view my pdfs. Why would there be additional costs associated with a hardware or or software rendering of a document?

Methinks it's probably the fact that it would have needed a bit more processor oomph (correct me if I'm wrong), thus a wee bit more juice. This could push the price of the components up, or it could just be a slow as heck PDF reader. Doesn't take much to read a plain text file.

Just a thought.

Perhaps you must leap over the wall and change into a woman before you may relieve yourself.

I hate the analogy of ownership. You can't own a joke. Kids don't own jokes (even if they're funny and original), Disney doesn't own jokes. It's a goddamn idea, not a unicycle or whatnot.

I'd just like to point out that the arguments for artificial scarcity are valid. It is important to think about when thinking about DRM.

But:
"Yawn. Every record, cassette, CD, and DVD says the same thing, somewhere, in the fine print. Why would you expect the terms under which MP3 files are sold to be any different?"

No, I'm not surprised. What bothers me is the fact that, a lot of the time, DRM involves some sort of tracking or identifying mechanism. Amazons service? No, not really. But a lot of DRM schemes involve identifying yourself explicitly. I know I would have been a little more apprehensive at 15 if, by copying my TMBG tape for my friend, someone could potentially catch me in the act and fine me for bajillions of dollars (I'm thinking of digital watermarking schemes here).

I know that the scale is completely off in that analogy. But it scales fine. The way I was about TMBG or Black Flag at 15, if thousands upon thousands of people came up to me and were expressing an interest, and if I had the capacity, I'd gladly make each of them a copy.

I generally don't follow bands that follow the money, anyway.

"Sorry I'm rambling- my point is this: If we just wanted a list of funny greekish words that nobody's ever heard of, we'd just write a simple algorithm."

Not so. There has to be a human mind (or a humanish mind) immersed in a particular culture to understand what words mean.

For example, I don't think that if a person actually intended to make up a new word, they'd resort to using an algorithm that would place consonants and vowels in such-and-such a manner so that the resulting "word" would be pronaounceable in the language for which it was written.

I'd argue that there's a very close cultural push behind a word's creation. Look at any disease name. There's some that, concievably, could be attributed to an algorithm. However, the roots, the prefixes, and the suffixes, are all grounded in either Latin, Greek (displaying the western origins of modern medicine) or chemical.

And let's face it, most of the names of the chemicals have roots extending far before their discovery.

I just learned a new, exciting (in the worst possible way) word today: "crowdsourcing". Thanks slashdot, you're a pal. The point is, you immediately recognize what two roots are combined in that word. You know there's an intelligence behind it who wants to tell you something. And they do in in an explicitly cultural way.

This is why etymology fascinates me. Look at a word. Look at turkey! All of a sudden you get a backstory about how trade worked in 1524! That's all packed into one 2-syllable word.

The first word I looked up: It's on the bottom of the screen: Archives:

1603, from Fr. archif, from L.L. archivum (sing.), from Gk. ta arkheia "public records," pl. of arkheion "town hall," from arkhe "government," lit. "beginning, origin, first place" (see archon). The verb is first attested 1934. -etymonline.com

You can see the evolution of a concept. It's a family tree of ideas. "Public records" being a plural of "town hall"? This fascinates me.

By the way...is there something up with the log in dealy? I'm having trouble logging in on my non-cookied session as well.

Etymology's been one of my secret passions for a while now. Every time I hear a word, something pops up in my consciousness that wonders where the word came from. For a seasonal example, why is the traditional dish in the US this time of year turkey? What the hell does that have to do with Turkey (the place)?

http://www.etymonline.com/ is the answer.

But I guess I can come out of the closet now.

Also: FF3 will never run on OSX 10.3. It requires OSX 10.4 at the minimum.

AdBlock is supported. So is NoScript. I'm running FF3b1 now. Everything's running noticeably faster. I haven't tried to blow the memory fragmentation issue up yet, but I find that this installation is a pleasure to use so far. Pages render much faster.

Of course, the page zoom isn't the biggest feature here. It's primarily the back-end stuff that's getting an overhaul. Gecko 1.9 (which incorporates Cairo) and bookmarks can be tagged due to the new SQL bookmark backend (this is nice). Something like 300 memory complaints and bugs have been fixed.

The new backend will allow a better feeling of OS-integration, supposedly. FF on OSX will use cocoa widgets, toning down the ugly on a mac.

And how long did FF take at %77? Mine usually jumps up to %80-odd upon launching for...oh...about half a second. I'd hate it if one's goal in life was to leave processing power unused. But then again, I run Folding@home.

I'm doing a thesis in philosophy of mind. Be careful of making analogies to modern technology. It's not like anything we've seen before. Hyperlinks? Navigated? Perhaps. But the resulting "links" aren't nearly as definite.

Not to mention the fact that there's nothing nearly as clean as a "result" whatsoever.

I've read the article, and it's a neat bit of reporting. I like how it doesn't pretend to know more than it does. Neuroscience and philosophy of mind are really nascent at this point, and the article reflects this feeling.

It's completely possible within five years to measure the activity of a random person's brain from a distance using a range of scanning techniques. determine the probability of the mood they're in. Hello advertising!

I want that. More than life.

Yes. This is more of a "fallout" themed ipod.

You know, all this steampunk stuff always reminds me of this.

I guess in times of mysterious magic blackbox objects like ipods and networks, it's nice to imagine the mechanism, even if it's only an aesthetic imagining.

But shouldn't a 'steampunk' ipod have many more gears and and springs and whatnot? I mean....it seems pretty minimal in there.

Not being falsifiable does not necessarily make something false.

It just makes it frustrating to think about.

There's a chance that in the future, it will become falsifiable.

It's worth thinking about, at least.

"'Otherwise we might as well hold national elections only in NYC, LA, DC, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, etc and the rest of the country would be screwed'

Sounds like an excellent idea to me."

Geographical as well as ideological or monetary interests should play a part in a democracy. So, no, this wouldn't be a good idea at all.

"please no slavery flames--the Civil War was about money, not slavery--except that of the Confederacy by the Union."

Well, this isn't a flame, but the monetary interests that you're concerned with were enabled by the presence of an incredibly low-cost workforce. Southern states were concerned that their economy, based on a lucrative cotton trade with Europe, would collapse if slavery was eliminated.

Of course, it's simply insane to say that something like the Civil War was caused by one thing, or even two. A few key factors that brought about the situation were ideologies about state's rights, economics, _as well as_ African-American slavery. The anti-slavery movement on the north and the rhetoric that went along with it can be seen as giving the north the moral authority to resist compromise, and thus a very real factor in the outbreak of war.

But the outbreak of violence of such magnitude cannot realistically be reduced to "money".

Most of the soldiers in the Confederacy were poor landless individuals. If the _only_ motivation was money, many of those men would have never enlisted.

Well thank god. I was beginning to worry that we'd see another DCFC release.

I don't know if I'd want to watch Kubrick in a drive in. But a fake one might be appropriate.