Hi: This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.
I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.
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 March 18th, 2005 |  Owen“Consider the usenet as a kind of asynchronous network. Consider the participants as nodes that connect and disconnect at random. Now consider the result. The value has *NOT* increased along with the number of nodes. Instead, the SNR became very small, and my belief is that the current SNR is negative, at least on average. There is still some good information to be found in pockets, but there is plenty of misinformation, too, and *LOTS* of noise.
I think the decisive factor is that the fanatical propagators of misinformation must be aware (at some level) that they are fighting against reality–but their response is to shout louder and more frequently, simply repeating their misinformation. Are they hoping that lies repeated enough times will somehow become true? Or they just hope to bury the truth they hate?”
Very interesting.. From Slashdot, a post by ‘Shanen’
February 3rd, 2005 | Owen so now I know the name for all the emails I get because some scum spammers use my domain name as a source of forged reply addresses in their pathetic schemes. As this site puts it:
“Backscatter is a message you receive informing you that email you did not send was not delivered to someone you do not know.”
Perfect.. couldn´t have put it better myself.
January 13th, 2005 | Owen And it looks like Prince Harry is no different, so what. Why do we let the press set the agenda this way? Who causes the offence? Harry with a dumb fancy-dress, or the Newspaper that puts a photo of it on the front cover? Why can’t the newspapers grow up?
January 9th, 2005 | Owen Bill Gates thinks all people who think differently from him on Copyright are communists. Bill, you’re a prat.
December 22nd, 2004 | Owen
December 14th, 2004 | Owen It will only make things worse...
Is it just me? Or is Blunkett really a bigger prat over privacy and the right to protest than the sycophantic tories?
December 14th, 2004 | Owen But not on Microsoft´s terms, thanks.
I guess the marketing wonks had to corrupt fair trade eventually.
September 18th, 2004 | Owen “The chief component of FUD is Fear… Fear and Doubt. Doubt and Fear. The TWO components of FUD are Fear and Doubt… And Uncertainty. The THREE components of FUD are Fear Uncertainty and Doubt… and an almost fanatical devotion to litigation.”
Made me laugh…
September 16th, 2004 | Owen Now Microsoft have managed to achieve a ‘zero-day‘ exploit for web browser users where all you have to do is look at a jpeg image. What a bunch of Useless..etc..
July 28th, 2004 | Owen Yet another quality /. post.
June 28th, 2004 | Owen For example:
I think that given small scale problems, government is not the place to look for a solution. But you have to admit the problems of the Internet are becoming wide-scale. Most of the email that now moves around is spam. Most of this is moved by zombied PCs running Windows. Most of the spy ware, malware and other maladies out there take advantage of flaws in Windows. 90%+ of all PCs in the world run Windows. Microsoft is a monopoly. Monopolies cannot be fixed by market forces – because they fix the market. If government can’t fix it, and the market is no longer capable of doing it, then who/what will?
I’ve been swashdotted — Elmer Fudd
March 30th, 2004 | Owen The Sad Spammers are still forging my domain.. Fortunately some are now getting their due rewards. HarHarHar.
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