Evidence please. I know that my network provider has data on where I am right now and that they would be capable of doing what you say (given a court order, for example), but that doesn't automatically mean they actually are.
I don't trust Apple any more or less implicitly than my network so I make no comment on whether or not they are in possession of the data my iPhone allegedly collects.
Lookee here: A German newspaper made an interactive map of the location of a politician of the Green party who subpoena'd his cell retained phone location data and made it available. It's a very enlightening demo, IMHO (web-page in German, but self-explanatory: hit the 'Play' button and adjust speed with the slider to the right of it). Not only does it show his location over a very long period of time, but also when and where he made phone calls.
And I'd be really surprised if the US had less data retention than Germany.
it's no way to justify picking the worst available consumer grade O/S
Actually, Windows is the perfect OS for this task! To wit: it comes pre-installed with Minesweeper for the destroyers and Solitaire for the submarines...
Excuse me, perhaps you can wish to live in an idealized, violence free Eden, but I'm all to aware of my animal roots, and if humanity weren't the meanest, nastiest, violencest sort of critter, we wouldn't be ruling the roost like we do.
Actually, mice have it licked over humans. Both in number as well as in bio mass. Or cockroaches. Or flies. Not to mention insects as a whole. (Also it's "most violent", but then I'm not a native speaker)
We evolved (ooh, there's that word again) fighting tooth and nail for our life over millions of years, to try to turn that off overnight evolutionarily speaking) is almost as trying to turn a life bearing woman into a warrior.
Incidentally, we also evolved a higher brain, but turning that off overnight apparently only comes too easy. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a good FPS from time to time, but I'd rather also see games that require a little bit more thought.
American's make the best computer games.
...after Japanese. ^_- I'm neutral as how they compare with European ones, though.
After all, the future of the human race may depend on robotic systems. No, I'm not joking, I'm talking about Von Neumann machines, which will one day be our route to colonising the entire Universe without any of the troubles caused by transporting meat sacks throughout the cosmos.
Von Neumann? As in "data and program together but the processor is separate"? At least my brain doesn't work like that...
Finally, we would be free of the things that hold us back - mortality, hatred, love and fear. Rather than spending all of our time fighting amongst ourselves in petty dominance contests we can acheive our manifest destiny amongt the stars.
...and...
This is why the US needs to push foward with research into this area, rather than more "glamorous" areas like nantechnology. We need to get our machines launched before anyone else in order to get to their destinations first. In the game of survival, first come is definitely first served.
So much for "petty dominance contests"... (or was that irony?). Anyway: Native Americans, Aboriginies and the people of Alderaan all were first, too...
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Evidence please. I know that my network provider has data on where I am right now and that they would be capable of doing what you say (given a court order, for example), but that doesn't automatically mean they actually are.
I don't trust Apple any more or less implicitly than my network so I make no comment on whether or not they are in possession of the data my iPhone allegedly collects.
Lookee here: A German newspaper made an interactive map of the location of a politician of the Green party who subpoena'd his cell retained phone location data and made it available. It's a very enlightening demo, IMHO (web-page in German, but self-explanatory: hit the 'Play' button and adjust speed with the slider to the right of it). Not only does it show his location over a very long period of time, but also when and where he made phone calls.
And I'd be really surprised if the US had less data retention than Germany.
This is a very unusual disaster - the first of it's kind.
Not exactly - and the attempts to close it also aren't quite the newest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo
To clarify: Red November will apparently be Gnome driven.
Gears of War (easily the best looking game I have *ever* seen, and amazingly fun to boot)
It's a good first sign that it's fun to boot, but I'd be more interested whether it's fun to play afterwards...
Excuse me, perhaps you can wish to live in an idealized, violence free Eden, but I'm all to aware of my animal roots, and if humanity weren't the meanest, nastiest, violencest sort of critter, we wouldn't be ruling the roost like we do.
Actually, mice have it licked over humans. Both in number as well as in bio mass. Or cockroaches. Or flies. Not to mention insects as a whole. (Also it's "most violent", but then I'm not a native speaker)
We evolved (ooh, there's that word again) fighting tooth and nail for our life over millions of years, to try to turn that off overnight evolutionarily speaking) is almost as trying to turn a life bearing woman into a warrior.
Incidentally, we also evolved a higher brain, but turning that off overnight apparently only comes too easy. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a good FPS from time to time, but I'd rather also see games that require a little bit more thought.
American's make the best computer games.
...after Japanese. ^_- I'm neutral as how they compare with European ones, though.
After all, the future of the human race may depend on robotic systems. No, I'm not joking, I'm talking about Von Neumann machines, which will one day be our route to colonising the entire Universe without any of the troubles caused by transporting meat sacks throughout the cosmos.
Von Neumann? As in "data and program together but the processor is separate"? At least my brain doesn't work like that...
Finally, we would be free of the things that hold us back - mortality, hatred, love and fear. Rather than spending all of our time fighting amongst ourselves in petty dominance contests we can acheive our manifest destiny amongt the stars.
...and...
This is why the US needs to push foward with research into this area, rather than more "glamorous" areas like nantechnology. We need to get our machines launched before anyone else in order to get to their destinations first. In the game of survival, first come is definitely first served.
So much for "petty dominance contests"... (or was that irony?). Anyway: Native Americans, Aboriginies and the people of Alderaan all were first, too...