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Microsoft Gadget Keeps Record of Your Life
An anonymous reader writes "SenseCam, touted as a visual diary of sorts by Microsoft Corp., is designed to be worn around the neck and take up to 2,000 images a 12-hour day automatically. The prototype responds to changes such as bright lights and sudden movements and might one day even respond to other stimuli such as heart rate or skin temperature -- to track medical problems as easily as to record a Hawaiian vacation."
Does this mean I will have to sit through all (2000 * 2 * 7) = 28,000 pictures from my jerk-wad Brother-In-Law's boring one week Hawaiian vacation? Talk about a death wish.
WOW! This does sound fascinating but I hope it comes with a better manual, the info from MS' page info doesn't even explain what type of batteries it requires:
Maybe I need more coffee this fine morning...
Trolling is a art,
This is like one of those electronic probation tether things for crooks, but it reports back to Bill Gates instead of to the courts.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If I wear one of these and my PDA wristwatch at the same time, I'll be getting more @ss than a toilet seat.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
all your life are belong to us
There are some things that I just don't want Microsoft to see in my daily routines. Some of which occur in front of my computer...
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
If I come across anyone using this near me.. I will punch them in the face. That, or bring out a large camera with flash and continually photograph them every moment they're talking to me
They'll either go away or turn the gadget off. Freaks
first MS Word keeps track of all of my editing and now another MS gadgt keeps track of my life. That can't be too good. Maybe we need to buy one of these for SCO lawyers.
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
"hehe. I used Grokster to download 120 people's lives, and now my hard drive is full of them."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Let's replay my week using my nifty new SenseCam:
Monday: go to work ass early. sit in cube. go home.
Tuesday: go to work ass early. sit in cube. go home.
Wednesday: go to work ass early. sit in cube. go home.
Thursday: go to work ass early. sit in cube. go home.
Friday: go to work ass early. sit in cube. go home.
Weekend: sit in front of computer and take recursive pictures of self.
Omigosh!! It would be hard to live in denial with one of these things =)
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson
So when the latest virus attacks MSFT systems, your life will stop until they can issue a patch. :-)
But...they will pledge to restore it to the point before the attack.
Monitoring device around you neck?
Will next version include a small explosive to keep you from doing bad things like watching DVDs in Linux?
OK, now put all this news together: Microsoft life camera, the Japanese robot, the neuron/silicon chips, the powered exoskeleton, ...
Maybe the Slashdot graphic of Bill Gates as a Borg is not so far off.
"Were do you want to be assimilated today?"
this thing would be great on those days you have really, really bad diarrhea.
free online diet tracking.
Check it out yer damn self- here-
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Woke up. Got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my hea Stop: 0X0000000A (0X00000000, 0X00000002, 0X00000001, 0X80448BF6)
IRQL_NOT_LESS OR EQUAL
Adress 80448BF6 base at 80400000, DateStamp
3d366b8b - ntoskrnl.exe
Beginning dump of a bunch of really unimportant crap
M$ had a record of your life? isn't that what you sign over in the licence agreement?
Some software money can't buy. For everything else there's Micros~1
Sure it'll help me "to figure out when [I] last saw a particular colleague or what bottle of wine [I] had been drinking that night" but will it help me figure out where I am, who this person is beside me and what kind of tequila got me here?
It's called Passport
Now you're gonna get busted for pirating other people's copyrighted lives.
Negative ?? ; )
harmonious design
I encrypted my life and now I've forgotten the password and can't get my life back.
all the hot chicks i see when walking around the campus i work at i can now record for prosperity and keep for later ..uh... analysis, instead of trying to remember them all. bring it to market ASAP!!
Cheap vacations without leaving the comfort of your home!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
You mean Windows XP?
I hate sigs.
did microsoft produce anything innovative in history? nope ...
blue screen
The first thing I thought of when I read the article was, "Great. Instead of Big Brother we now have to worry about his zillions of little siblings."
Funny, the first thing I thought of when I read about this was, "I wonder how much I would have to pay Ron Jeremy to wear it for a week, and what subsequent margins could I expect when I later auctioned it on e-bay?"
I suspect you and I are very different types of people...
It sounds like the parent poster is a cop.
Great, now I can catch some sleep on the way to work. The Sensecam will wake me up before I cause an accident
Anything that says "Microsoft" and "around your neck" gives me the creeps and makes me think of The Fortress
Two thousand views of my PC monitor.
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
What happens if my life gets infected with a worm and starts blue screening or sending rude emails to everyone I know?
{teen1 dons new Microsoft Personal Datalogger}
Teen1: W00T! Check my l33t PDL. It'll record all the uder stuff we do tonight.
Teen2 and 3: Whoa! Awesome, dude!
Teen1: Alright, everyone got their paint-ball guns?
Teen2: Hell, Yeah!
Teen3: Locked and loaded!
Teen1: Sweet! I'll drive.
Clippy PDL: It looks like you're about to raise hell in your neighborhood! Would you like me to:
-Phone Angry Man Smith and have him step outside so as you can get a better shot at him?
-Automatically search for unsecured wireless networks and e-mail them home for you?
-Record all your nights activities to be used against you in a court of law?
In the spirit of bio companies before them,
microsoft has patented all the information
about your life. If you should need
to communicate any facts abour your
existence please get microsoft approval first.
Yet another example of how Microsoft refuse to interoperate - I'm a UNIX hacker and my days have 24 hours in them, as required by ISO 8601. What annoys me is that so many people use MS stuff that they'll start thinking that days are supposed to be 12 hours long, and that everyone doing it the old 24-hour way is just being belligerent.
I can see the logic behind this gadget, though. MS is already like a metaphorical albatross/millstone around the neck already, so why not go the whole hog and do it for real?
You must think in Russian.
"Honey, I was looking through the SenseCam pictures that automatically dumped to the TiVo gallery wirelessly when you walked in the door today. Why is your penis in the secretary?"
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Hey, cool! Microsoft "invented" a time-lapse camera!