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Comment: Re:kind of like the police (Score 0) 869

by pagaboy (#36008618) Attached to: The Internet's New Alternate Reality

It's a country in which the governor of Texas has repeatedly appealed to citizens to telepathically urge an omnipotent invisible deity to change the weather for the state.

Oh dear, and you'd started so well. You definitely get some religious wingnuts, fond of all sorts of conspiracy theories. But you also get the equivalent on the secularist side of things, who believe that all religious people have undergone volontary lobotomies, and seek nothing better than to invent invisible friends for themselves.

Nutters on both sides. Not sure where that leaves the rest of us though.

Comment: Re:I'm not sure what he's getting at? (Score 1) 357

by pagaboy (#35828848) Attached to: Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong'

I think I get it (or a bit of it, maybe). Imagine the situation where documents and URLs didn't change over time. If you're writing an academic essay, and you quote, say, Einstein, then rather than copy-pasting a quote, you link to a paragraph in the book itself. Einstein's book, also, can contain links to Newton. So any quoting from elsewhere allows you to see not only the quote but also the context. I can see this being quite useful, and would be a fantastically easy way to check someone wasn't being misquoted.

Problems with this, however, are that there are no unchanging links for these sources, that sources may change and be modified, and that it's only really useful for academic-type work where quoting is integral.

So a nice idea for a bit of software, or a website, but not really a challenge to the structure of the web itself.

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