SuperBanana writes "According to a report by the Boston Globe, Star Simpson was nearly shot by Logan Airport police who thought she was armed with a bomb. She approached an airline employee wearing a prototyping board with electronic components, crudely attached to the front of her sweatshirt and holding "putty" in her hand. She asked about an incoming flight, and did not respond when asked about the device. Armed police responded. Her actions seem purposefully designed to elicit a reaction from airport security- or this is further proof of the poor judgment of Boston area college students."
- That summary is superb. The editors are douchebags.
I personally despise cams in the way they are used in the UK and now in NY, but was trying to point out the bias of this site in that there is data that was missing from the article and some weird amounts of money thrown around. All of this should have been caught by the editors before it was published.
It's a work of fiction, it's allowed to have fictional data and fictional amounts of money thrown around. It is an interesting and insightful short story in that most fiction about the pervasiveness of these technologies puts their dissemination in government hands, not corporations that later fall under government pressures. The former is familiar, eg. Orwells 1984 whilst the latter is a relatively unexplored yet seemingly easily achievable dire vision of the future.
Then again, this is one of the few articles I bothered to read. I mostly come here for the comments, not the stories themselves. You're right that most summaries here are heavily biased and light on facts, but they lead to very interesting discussions.
Fact is, it's still the best search engine out there. I may be against it in theory, but from a personal perspective...it still gives me what I want.
I'm guessing you're posting from outside China then, and assume you get uncensored results. How would we know if similar firewalls were in place everywhere? There is already the default-on 'SafeSearch' option which amounts to an opt-in great firewall. If changing a safesearch flag unlocks extra content, what other flags and hidden content are there? It is a fine line between giving you what you want and manipulating what you get, and seeing their response to invasive government demands regarding China doesn't give me much hope that they wouldn't cross that line into Orwellian dystopia.
I don't think you're stupid, just pragmatic, but would you still use google if you were in China?
You missed the point thanks to the Worst. Summary. EVER. If you had the dad this kid had, none of your other points would matter. The fact that his parents are exploiting their children for marketing hype seems to have been missed by everyone, all too happy to project their fantasies onto the hype.
Unfortunately the Geneva group responsible for banning these weapons is focussed primarily on cluster munitions at the moment, for obvious practical reasons. They're on the case, let's just hope they can get on the case in time. A pity that the United States has a phobia about ratifying Geneva based weapons treaties, let alone following them through.
You Titor fans have the same bizarre hangup other fundamentalists do, namely that you can't appreciate the message behind the metaphor, and divide everything into truth and lies.
IIRC the university only checked IDs after 11pm, a perfectly reasonable requirement. The overreaction however was in no way reasonable, and you are right in that the ID policy in no way excuses their behaviour.
It's worse than that. From one of the linked writeups:
#World-making is free -- much like some introductory blog services, Areae only starts charging users for hosting their Metaplace world when they begin generating heavy traffic. # There'll be sponsored worlds from advertisers and/or Areae partners.
# Virtual currency can be spent across the network, and can be sold for real cash -- which users and developers can buy from Areae.
# An Adsense-style ad network will track user behavior based on what Metaplace games and worlds they play, and feed them appropriately targeted ads.
# A mini-Metaplace world can be embedded within a web ad, creating instant brand engagement to promote a sponsor's products.
They're gonna charge you for success while spamming you with their shitty revenue models, in other words more spam. All I can see this project doing is giving Second Life an aura of respectability.
Well, it's still a bad analogy. People at a busstop are far more useful than Wikipedia - they can freely form opinions and make statements without having everyone else at the busstop editing, reverting and twisting their words for one thing. Plus, your average busstopper is likely to have far better grammar, literacy and general world knowledge, would have a healthy lack of social problems and wouldn't want you to quote sources for every word you utter.
To quote a sibling, "You can't play DRMed HD over a "vanilla" DVI port. This is a known fact. Unless the port supports HDCP (not part of the official DVI standard, and known for LOTS of interoperability problems - see Westinghouse TVs vs. PS3 for example), you're screwed."
While Samsung might have a DVI port that supports HDCP, that's great for that them but still useless for those without such compatibility. Vista is still borked.
Supposedly, you have to have a refined taste to appreciate art, but in my experience, this in practice means, "you have to be told it's good before you notice its good". Also known as the Placebo effect.
Really? I always thought it was the Pablo Picasso effect.
Yeah sure, your magic 'copper cloth' stops the waves with so-called 'Faraday cages'. Everyone knows only genuine tinfoil can stop the mind control devices. You're probably working for THEM, aren't you, well I can see through your counterintelligence disinformation campaign. Go back to your reptilian overlords and tell them that planet Earth will always resist their intergalactic oppression!
There are no intelligent creationists, but there are sane Christians. I'm a regular listener to Sunday Night Safran, a religious discussion program with an atheist and catholic priest hosting, who had a TV series before their radio stint called Speaking in Tongues. Anyway, if you can spare the time have a listen to John Safran interviewing Bishop John Shelby Spong (33mb download, interview at 50:05 onwards). He has restored my faith in sane Christians.
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What about being vendor neutral, and allowing customers to choose a carrier? Oh wait, it's Apple, vendor lock-in is their specialty.
It's just authentication.. aww geez being a grammar nazi is no fun when someone asks politely.
Are all those profiting from these wireless technologies taxpayers? If not, they should pay their dues too.
- That summary is superb. The editors are douchebags.
It's a work of fiction, it's allowed to have fictional data and fictional amounts of money thrown around. It is an interesting and insightful short story in that most fiction about the pervasiveness of these technologies puts their dissemination in government hands, not corporations that later fall under government pressures. The former is familiar, eg. Orwells 1984 whilst the latter is a relatively unexplored yet seemingly easily achievable dire vision of the future.
Then again, this is one of the few articles I bothered to read. I mostly come here for the comments, not the stories themselves. You're right that most summaries here are heavily biased and light on facts, but they lead to very interesting discussions.
I'm guessing you're posting from outside China then, and assume you get uncensored results. How would we know if similar firewalls were in place everywhere? There is already the default-on 'SafeSearch' option which amounts to an opt-in great firewall. If changing a safesearch flag unlocks extra content, what other flags and hidden content are there? It is a fine line between giving you what you want and manipulating what you get, and seeing their response to invasive government demands regarding China doesn't give me much hope that they wouldn't cross that line into Orwellian dystopia.
I don't think you're stupid, just pragmatic, but would you still use google if you were in China?
In other news, be careful what you post on the internet. Whoops, I mean our beloved Government is there to protect you from yourself. Amen.
Oh yeah, and welcome to /. GP
You missed the point thanks to the Worst. Summary. EVER. If you had the dad this kid had, none of your other points would matter. The fact that his parents are exploiting their children for marketing hype seems to have been missed by everyone, all too happy to project their fantasies onto the hype.
Unfortunately the Geneva group responsible for banning these weapons is focussed primarily on cluster munitions at the moment, for obvious practical reasons. They're on the case, let's just hope they can get on the case in time. A pity that the United States has a phobia about ratifying Geneva based weapons treaties, let alone following them through.
You Titor fans have the same bizarre hangup other fundamentalists do, namely that you can't appreciate the message behind the metaphor, and divide everything into truth and lies.
8 divided by 2 is 4, 6 divided by 3 is 2 means 86 and 23 are related to 42! I've unlocked the secret to life, the universe and everything!
IIRC the university only checked IDs after 11pm, a perfectly reasonable requirement. The overreaction however was in no way reasonable, and you are right in that the ID policy in no way excuses their behaviour.
I'd tell you, but I'd have to NDA you first.
# There'll be sponsored worlds from advertisers and/or Areae partners.
# Virtual currency can be spent across the network, and can be sold for real cash -- which users and developers can buy from Areae.
# An Adsense-style ad network will track user behavior based on what Metaplace games and worlds they play, and feed them appropriately targeted ads.
# A mini-Metaplace world can be embedded within a web ad, creating instant brand engagement to promote a sponsor's products.
They're gonna charge you for success while spamming you with their shitty revenue models, in other words more spam. All I can see this project doing is giving Second Life an aura of respectability.
Well, it's still a bad analogy. People at a busstop are far more useful than Wikipedia - they can freely form opinions and make statements without having everyone else at the busstop editing, reverting and twisting their words for one thing. Plus, your average busstopper is likely to have far better grammar, literacy and general world knowledge, would have a healthy lack of social problems and wouldn't want you to quote sources for every word you utter.
No, they're furiously fiddling to increase numbers from fractions of a percent.
While Samsung might have a DVI port that supports HDCP, that's great for that them but still useless for those without such compatibility. Vista is still borked.
Really? I always thought it was the Pablo Picasso effect.
You're just another prick.
Err, brick in the wall that is.
Yeah sure, your magic 'copper cloth' stops the waves with so-called 'Faraday cages'. Everyone knows only genuine tinfoil can stop the mind control devices. You're probably working for THEM, aren't you, well I can see through your counterintelligence disinformation campaign. Go back to your reptilian overlords and tell them that planet Earth will always resist their intergalactic oppression!
I'm a viroligist, you insensitive clod, and besides the obvious plural for virii is viruseses. Duh.
Vista loses before comparison. Doesn't mean OSX is worth much. BSD is enhanced, if anything.
There are no intelligent creationists, but there are sane Christians. I'm a regular listener to Sunday Night Safran, a religious discussion program with an atheist and catholic priest hosting, who had a TV series before their radio stint called Speaking in Tongues. Anyway, if you can spare the time have a listen to John Safran interviewing Bishop John Shelby Spong (33mb download, interview at 50:05 onwards). He has restored my faith in sane Christians.
Use the low-tech solution - boycott the product.