It's almost like we're kind of pissed at the Castro family for encouraging the Soviet Union to launch those nuclear missiles he had on his island. And maybe we'll even encourage friends and allies for being pissed at them too. And maybe, just maybe the companies that do business with Cuba are not welcome on our DNS servers.
You know, because of that whole trying to murder tens of millions of us and all.
Wow, #2, biovisions was by far the best, IMHO. What a great concept and beautiful implementation. I'd love to see more of this type of stuff (going to Google it after this reply). Wouldn't it be great to have a "Google Body" where you could zoom in and zoom out on a simulated body?
I say they all deserve a middle finger gesture if they can't work out a sensible standard. Apple should especially be chastised for trying to patent this stuff. It's like patenting an 'x' for denoting closing a window.
It makes sense for competitors to collaborate on certain things to move the industry as a whole forward.
(continued title) ... except stupid people.
This SHOULD show that even a "disaster" is minimal by nuclear standards and that safety is about a billion times better than any type of plant, but who knows how this will be interpreted by those who are inclined to panic at what they don't understand.
You're a fool.
Unless you work black ops for the gov't or in some other highly classified position, I think my opinion is as good as yours. I think we can be civil in our disagreements without trolling.
Incidents on planes scare the crap out of the right people. Namely, upper income individuals that feel safe in their McMansions, but feel vulnerable in other places.
The objective of terrorists is not necessarily killing the greatest number of people, it's to instill the maximum amount of fear. I'm not discounting the fact that a political terrorist could go nuts in a mall somewhere, but they tend to go for spectacular "shock and awe" type operations.
I certainly agree with your point. These guys certainly are not raving loons that can't tie their shoes. The general consensus (I'm speaking of the society at large) seems to be they are unsophisticated "cowards". I'd say they are neither, and any attempt on our part to convince ourselves of this point (as Bush has just done with Bhutto assassination) is ultimately going to hurt only ourselves. We cannot underestimate our enemy.
However, they are "irrational" in that they may not mind if they die a horrible death at 30,000 feet if they can score a few propaganda points in the process. So the odds of a terrorist (or likely a collection of terrorists) taking that firearm onto a plane to randomly murder are very high. 5 or 6 dudes taking out half a plane before anyone realizes what's going on is a great way to get attention. Sure, they'll die in the process, but living life is not their #1 objective anyway.
In any event, this is all academic because it'll never happen.
You're assuming the terrorist is rational, but they are not always rational. If you put guns on every airplane, they would kill as many people as possible before being "martyred". Or try to bring down the entire plane with a few well placed shots.
But I think the odds of hijackings have actually DRAMATICALLY decreased since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, if there was a hijacking, I would've let hijackers do whatever, in the hopes to stay alive. Now, it's me or them. Period. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who is aware of this fact (read: other passengers & potential hijackers).
Well, being completely picky in the/. fashion I feel I must mention that Yoshi was first introduced in the SNES, which was a 16-bit system. Am I correct on this?
So technically, you've got 8-bit characters and 16-bit characters. Still cool though.
3D environments, in my opinion do not provide enough capability to show this facet of communication anywhere near proper. Here, let me fix this for you... 3D environments, in my opinion do not provide enough capability to show this facet of communication anywhere near proper *YET*.
Well, I wouldn't call it ignorance. Laziness or half-attentiveness to detail is probably more appropriate. Admittedly, I skimmed the summary and misread it. So... you caught me.
It's almost like the Chinese are a little leery of the US having a very large amount of control over the Internet. Not that I condone their actions (if this is true), but I can't say I'd be totally surprised.
Stop thinking about how to milk the people. We are not your cows and goats. Give the people a product that will make things better for them and settle for an honest, decent profit while doing so. HAHA! Which planet do you live on? Sorry, but the goal of every company is to get as much money out of you as they can. They do that by offering services... not the other way around.
Am I to understand that Cookie Monster is no longer a character on Sesame Street? He was the best one! If that's true, I'm moving to Cuba -- at least they're more upfront about their mind control.
Google can be great at developing software -- they can also be very average. Hopefully, they deliver the former and not the latter with the gphone.
Also, am I the only one that would think twice before purchasing a phone like this for concerns over viruses, etc? I don't know of any large scale, massively disruptive phone viruses yet, but they can't be too far behind the iPhone gPhone combo pack.
With an Australian Federal election due in a few weeks, and both parties promising improved broadband speeds and access...
Wow, I wish this was even close to being an issue in one of our campaigns here in the USA. Can you imagine having an issue like this on the national agenda here?
I still don't get how these things are supposed to work, really. So you can draw a picture of graffiti and that's your password?
What if I can't draw?
How can you obscure this while "entering your password"? Seems like it'd be a lot easier to see than what someone is doing on a keyboard.
How much is the extra hardware going to cost and would the business want to pay for it?
Why not just do fingerprint recognition?
etc, etc...
Ok, due to popular demand (eh, I guess) we are now 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 01110011 not 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110011. The consensus seems to be that geeks are what we are, not nerds. I agree with that... sure why the hell not?
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It's almost like we're kind of pissed at the Castro family for encouraging the Soviet Union to launch those nuclear missiles he had on his island. And maybe we'll even encourage friends and allies for being pissed at them too. And maybe, just maybe the companies that do business with Cuba are not welcome on our DNS servers.
You know, because of that whole trying to murder tens of millions of us and all.
Yes, -1 Not conforming with majority opinion
Wow, #2, biovisions was by far the best, IMHO. What a great concept and beautiful implementation. I'd love to see more of this type of stuff (going to Google it after this reply). Wouldn't it be great to have a "Google Body" where you could zoom in and zoom out on a simulated body?
I freggin' love this stuff.
I say they all deserve a middle finger gesture if they can't work out a sensible standard. Apple should especially be chastised for trying to patent this stuff. It's like patenting an 'x' for denoting closing a window.
It makes sense for competitors to collaborate on certain things to move the industry as a whole forward.
(continued title)
... except stupid people.
This SHOULD show that even a "disaster" is minimal by nuclear standards and that safety is about a billion times better than any type of plant, but who knows how this will be interpreted by those who are inclined to panic at what they don't understand.
http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2008/default.aspx?sn=24144&lang=en
Interesting vids, thanks for posting. I didn't know any of that stuff.
Unless you work black ops for the gov't or in some other highly classified position, I think my opinion is as good as yours. I think we can be civil in our disagreements without trolling.
Incidents on planes scare the crap out of the right people. Namely, upper income individuals that feel safe in their McMansions, but feel vulnerable in other places.
The objective of terrorists is not necessarily killing the greatest number of people, it's to instill the maximum amount of fear. I'm not discounting the fact that a political terrorist could go nuts in a mall somewhere, but they tend to go for spectacular "shock and awe" type operations.
I certainly agree with your point. These guys certainly are not raving loons that can't tie their shoes. The general consensus (I'm speaking of the society at large) seems to be they are unsophisticated "cowards". I'd say they are neither, and any attempt on our part to convince ourselves of this point (as Bush has just done with Bhutto assassination) is ultimately going to hurt only ourselves. We cannot underestimate our enemy.
However, they are "irrational" in that they may not mind if they die a horrible death at 30,000 feet if they can score a few propaganda points in the process. So the odds of a terrorist (or likely a collection of terrorists) taking that firearm onto a plane to randomly murder are very high. 5 or 6 dudes taking out half a plane before anyone realizes what's going on is a great way to get attention. Sure, they'll die in the process, but living life is not their #1 objective anyway.
In any event, this is all academic because it'll never happen.
You're assuming the terrorist is rational, but they are not always rational. If you put guns on every airplane, they would kill as many people as possible before being "martyred". Or try to bring down the entire plane with a few well placed shots.
But I think the odds of hijackings have actually DRAMATICALLY decreased since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, if there was a hijacking, I would've let hijackers do whatever, in the hopes to stay alive. Now, it's me or them. Period. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who is aware of this fact (read: other passengers & potential hijackers).
Well, being completely picky in the /. fashion I feel I must mention that Yoshi was first introduced in the SNES, which was a 16-bit system. Am I correct on this?
So technically, you've got 8-bit characters and 16-bit characters. Still cool though.
Why do you believe Booth was a patriot?
The singularity is near... http://www.singinst.org/media/thesingularity
So why not put the technology in place now?
Even though I'm a high UID, amen to that! (UID discrimination notwithstanding)
I think a heavy dose of real nerd stories is what this place really needs. I can only read so many RIAA/MPAA stories before I lose interest.
Well, I wouldn't call it ignorance. Laziness or half-attentiveness to detail is probably more appropriate. Admittedly, I skimmed the summary and misread it. So... you caught me.
Thanks for the correction.
It's almost like the Chinese are a little leery of the US having a very large amount of control over the Internet. Not that I condone their actions (if this is true), but I can't say I'd be totally surprised.
Am I to understand that Cookie Monster is no longer a character on Sesame Street? He was the best one! If that's true, I'm moving to Cuba -- at least they're more upfront about their mind control.
Agreed. There was reference above questioning *why* this was done, but as you said... it's perfectly clear.
If a studio churns out crap games that make no money and hire too many people, it gets shut down.
Google can be great at developing software -- they can also be very average. Hopefully, they deliver the former and not the latter with the gphone.
Also, am I the only one that would think twice before purchasing a phone like this for concerns over viruses, etc? I don't know of any large scale, massively disruptive phone viruses yet, but they can't be too far behind the iPhone gPhone combo pack.
Wow, I wish this was even close to being an issue in one of our campaigns here in the USA. Can you imagine having an issue like this on the national agenda here?
Wow, sounds like a good idea to start looking at IBM's stock.
I still don't get how these things are supposed to work, really. So you can draw a picture of graffiti and that's your password?
What if I can't draw?
How can you obscure this while "entering your password"? Seems like it'd be a lot easier to see than what someone is doing on a keyboard.
How much is the extra hardware going to cost and would the business want to pay for it?
Why not just do fingerprint recognition?
etc, etc...
Ok, due to popular demand (eh, I guess) we are now 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 01110011 not 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110011. The consensus seems to be that geeks are what we are, not nerds. I agree with that... sure why the hell not?
Hopefully they were smart enough to encrypt the data this time. If not, the company should truly be shut down...