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Backup Your Life on a DVD
matt20 writes "I've often wondered what it would take to condense the essence of my life and put it in a searchable format. Well, it looks like that may become a reality. Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write - in fact your every memory and experience - into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything. Here is the article found in New Scientist."
This gives "identity theft" a whole new meaning.
Sounds kinda redudant to me ... isn't this what the new dept. of homeland security is going to do?
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Will it remember where I put my @#$!$ car keys?
Now I'll NEVER be able to forget my ex-girlfriend!
What if I forget where I put the dvd?
Since I have no life, mine could probably fit into a 3.5" floppy
Now I'll Never have to remember names again! thanks, umm...
When life gives you crap, Make Crapade.
Sluggy Freelance.
Does this mean I'll be able to bring out extended special editions? Deleted scenes could be amusing... Out-takes and a gag reel! Woohoo!
I could get my folks to do Director's Commentary... ^_^
"I hate Cthulhu, Cthulhu hates me, I kill his cultists, He eats worlds for tea"
No doubt with this being a microsoft driven development they will plant false memories of Windows 95 being a stable and enjoyable OS to use.
Oh and probably that billg invented the internet.
Where did you want to go to yesterday?
Umm....Why do I feel that was one sarcastic comment in the article???
"Do something man. Right now."
There was a night in Tijuana I wouldn't choose to remember at gunpoint. Last thing I want is a surround-sound, THX enhanced f'ing DVD of it.
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
Dear God, I can just imagine my wife going back four months to pick out the exact wording of something I misspoke, and then playing it back. Men of the world unite, we must stop this now! *g*
Just kidding. This looks like some really interesting technology, but I can't help think that the investment of time you'd have to make outweighs the benefit.
WOW! A microsoft solution capable of recording all our actions for a year!
We all knew it was going to happen someday, Microsoft would own our memories. Can you imagine the DCMA violations trying to break the compy protect to view your own memories? What type of lawsuits are we going to get into when we just claim to remember doing it, and no we didn't reference the MyLifeBits database?
The media would have fun with this. We could have "Truman Shows" playing back the MyLifeBits database files 24x7. Imagine the pirated copies of the next serial killer, or thrill seeker.
Don't you love technology.
Gator/Claria is Spyware.
Are we entering a new era?
"I'm sorry officer, I don't remember. My memory crashed."
Seriously?
Do the guys at Microsoft seriously consider the PC to be a most reliable of entities? Man, you think after years of running Windows you'd know better.
As for the database, that sounds like it would be an enormous amount of work to keep up, and wouldn't be that useful day to day unless you were carrying it with you. I forget to take pictures, how am I going to remember to upload the pictures I actually take? And has anyone ever gone back and reread their old email...BORING... unless you're narsisistic who cares what you posted on
This thing sounds good in theory, but in practice people just are not taking that many pictures or writing that many memorable letters. This will be a product for the vain, the famous and the rich who don't know what else to spend their money on.
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I'd personally be more interested in a device that reliably and irrevocably deletes bad memories.
-Stephen
project is called MyLifeBits
That's cool. I'm about to start my own project, called MyLifeBites. It'll be a focus group helping nerdy Slashdotters come to grips with the fact that there's nothing in their lives worth backing up.
Protect your life disk with CSS and use the DMCA to per^H^Hrosecute the living daylights out of anyone who accesses it without your authorization.
Simple.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Not the 'net version of DIVX...the ORIGINAL DIVX..so that I can only see my memories if I pay a "rental" fee and they will timeout after 48 hours and I can pay a fee to get some more time...but I cant lend them to my friends or play them on anyone elses player...but then, they would probably just disable the pay to play feature after a year anyways making it plain DVD... ;)
--"The revolution will be simulcast..."--
Yeah, right, and I drink becase of all the good memories beer enhances...
How long before Bush is pushing for some law that requires the gov't to be given a copy of every one of those made?
This has been a test. Had this been a real emergency, we would have fled in terror and you would not have been informed.
(Where X was the last thing I would ever say/admit/believe.)
Be warned, women in high places will never alow this technology to be used by men, there is a potential for blokes in arguments to be proven right!
If nature abhors a vacuum, why isn't there more dust in the world?
Microsoft argues that our memories often deceive us: experiences get exaggerated, we muddle the timing of events and simply forget stuff.
Yes. Now Microsoft can make us 'remember' things as they 'really' are. Remember that trial that we THOUGHT was against Microsoft for monopolistic practices? Well, it was ACTUALLY against Linux for being commie bastards. See how our memories decieved us?
Oh. And your brain is now covered by the DMCA and digital rights management. Don't try to remember anything without paying for it first.
'These people we're stealing the music, replaying it in their MINDS! Clearly, this theft must be stopped so I...I mean artists...can get the money they deserve. See, these people have in their back-up brain. Artists need compensation.' - RIAA, coming soon!
"That was close honey, that chick's butt looks just like yours."
At least generally I can tell which one is her, by the three orbiting satellites.. (children)
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
One floppy should be enough for everybody.
-- Cheers!
I could actually refute all the assertions my ex-wife used to make
Any male who gathers evidence preemptively to use against a female (unless she's an adversary) is just digging his own grave. Just roll over like you're supposed to; you'll be happier. You can know you're right all you want, just don't try to prove it.