Envisioneering n.
a. The application of false promises to scam money from the gullible. From Envision "to see a way" and Profiteering "to improperly profit by".
b. The profession of or the work performed by an envisioneer.
Unfortunately overrated and underrated mods don't appear in meta-moderation, which means a moderator can bury a comment and have no consequences. You should still meta-moderate, though:-)
the screeners looking at the output from these systems are separated physically from the location where the passengers are being scanned. They do not have visual/optical access to the individuals, only the monitor on which the processed image/video is displayed.
It mentions that at the end of the article, but that isn't privacy - it's just temporary anonymity, and as soon as something out of the ordinary pops up that anonymity goes as well. There has to be some connection between the "physically separated" screener and a person at the scanner otherwise the system wouldn't work, and even if there was no connection at all it still wouldn't be privacy. If a stranger is watching you you do not have privacy, it's irrelevant how remote they are.
The big problem is that almost all passengers allows themselves to be fingerprinted, scanned, and recorded. If nobody put up with it, if everyone traveled another way when faced with these restrictions, then the system could never be enforced because the airlines would lose money hand over fist. They would only have to be boycotted for a week for it to hit them in the pocket, hardly an inconvenience for passengers. But the amount of people with conviction enough to boycott them is insignificant, unfortunately.
That's an aweful lot of disgusting bodies to look at for just a few good looking ones!
If I remember correctly, I think that's part of Operant Conditioning - producing a reward only occasionally is more effective at reinforcing a behaviour than rewarding the behaviour every time. After you've conditioned the rat to press the bar to receive a food pellet you reduce the frequency of the reward and it ends up pressing the food bar manically in the hope of receiving another. Thus in this case, hot chicks stand out from fat birds and the operator is stimulated to continue looking to find another.
Well, this is more about the hypocrisy of marketing-speak than the tyranny of governments (for now). They're aware that people will be concerned about the privacy invasion it implies so they've tried to head those concerns off at the pass, without realizing it makes them look even worse. They now look like uncaring bastards, instead of just some people with a cool new implementation of technology.
...so long as you redefine privacy to mean exclusively "photographic images of your body", and exclude anything else including the contents of your own pockets. That's a pretty narrow definition of privacy. So narrow, in fact, that it stops being privacy at all.
Privacy concerns in this day and age are ridiculous. You haven't any.
I'm sick of hearing this. Privacy is not dead. It's like security in that you have to understand and implement it and if someone tries to overcome it you have to stop them, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that it's not possible to have.
Fighting the tide only works when you're on the shore. When you're at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, there isn't very much you can do.
We all have our own tide to fight, and how much everyone else fights their tide only has a small effect on yours.
The guy seems to miss the point entirely, make vague spiritual overtones...
"He began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England" (from his web site).
Articles about anniversaries of stuff are generally filler - it's doubly meaningless when the thing in question hasn't been continuously running for that time. I like the Guide in all its incarnations, but I can't see any significance in it being 30 years since it was first broadcast, and the radio show is probably the least known aspect of it now, anyway.
There's a difference between looking in through a window, and taking a photograph through a window. If that photo is then posted on the internet, tied to its location, and tagged with information about what it shows to make it even easier to find, that's different again.
If you don't mind photographs of your house or yourself posted on the net that's fine, but not everyone feels that way and you should respect that. Some people will be very upset and feel violated by it, and do not want to have to live with their curtains closed in case someone sees their open window as an invitation to take a photograph through it. As an example, if you were a woman and a photo of yourself sunbathing was uploaded and then tagged with "boobies" so a million strangers could find it and masturbate to it, you might feel differently.
Abstract passwords for people who can't remember them:
1. Use a password based on a keyboard pattern. For example, starting at "1" and moving down and across the keyboard produces "1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv"
2. Use a normal word but with the "alt" key held down. For example "carrots" becomes "çå®®øß"
3. Use a combination of the above. The first example with "alt" held down produces "oeåß#ç®f"
(Some of the odder letters in the last two examples may not show up here).
To reiterate a point some others have made, though - if the computer has an internet connection there's no way a 7-year-old should be using it unsupervised. Her own non-connected computer can be password protected and in her room, but the family net-connected computer must be in the living room with the screen fully visible and only usable when a parent/guardian is home.
Turns out that if you don't know the person and what they're talking about then the conversations are extremely boring. People just aren't that interesting on the phone.
I had the exact opposite experience. I found other people's conversations fascinating, but within a couple of days I'd heard stuff that was so personal it made me realize I shouldn't be listening. Thinking about it, experiencing that at 14 probably led me to believe in people's right to privacy and anonymity today. It certainly led to me never buy a cordless house phone.
To be fair, those questions outright SUCKED. *That's* the best Slashdot can give our candidates? No wonder no one responded!
I seem to remember Taco saying that Ask Slashdot interviewees get sent a whole bunch of questions they can pick and choose which ones to answer (I couldn't find the quote for you, sorry). If that's the case here then it's likely Slashdot did send some better questions, but the "team" answering chose the innocuous ones because when you're answering on somebody else's behalf you don't want to drop them in hot water.
I (as an owner of a piece of equipment capable of receiving the BBC), have to pay a license fee each year (whether I actually decide to watch it or not)
"You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV." (my emphasis)
Just to reiterate, you don't need a license to just own a television.
When being in public entails having your every move watched and recorded and profiled, that's more like being on private property, or a prison.
This is exactly what is already happening but faster.
Beyond a certain point, making something bigger or faster or stronger in just one aspect pushes it over a line to where it becomes something very different - spin a propeller and it turns around, spin it fast enough and you suddenly have powered flight. The connection of cctv to powerful computers is not just the same as before but faster, it becomes something very intrusive and powerful. Whether you care about it or not you should be aware that a lot of other people do care, and it would be preferable if the world was not changed to make it intolerable for them to live in.
So the modified mouse runs on the treadmill for six hours, while the normal mouse has a nice sit down and watches it. Maybe this modification just makes mice stupid.
There's an interview with David Cassidy about this in the 13th September Nature Podcast (the page also has the podcast as a direct MP3 download and a transcript).
Maybe it's because of where they weighed it - the strength of gravity is not the same all over the planet, and I'm guessing it can change in one place over time due to the movement of the Earth's outer core and give a different result.
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Envisioneering n.
a. The application of false promises to scam money from the gullible. From Envision "to see a way" and Profiteering "to improperly profit by".
b. The profession of or the work performed by an envisioneer.
Unfortunately overrated and underrated mods don't appear in meta-moderation, which means a moderator can bury a comment and have no consequences. You should still meta-moderate, though :-)
The big problem is that almost all passengers allows themselves to be fingerprinted, scanned, and recorded. If nobody put up with it, if everyone traveled another way when faced with these restrictions, then the system could never be enforced because the airlines would lose money hand over fist. They would only have to be boycotted for a week for it to hit them in the pocket, hardly an inconvenience for passengers. But the amount of people with conviction enough to boycott them is insignificant, unfortunately.
Well, this is more about the hypocrisy of marketing-speak than the tyranny of governments (for now). They're aware that people will be concerned about the privacy invasion it implies so they've tried to head those concerns off at the pass, without realizing it makes them look even worse. They now look like uncaring bastards, instead of just some people with a cool new implementation of technology.
...so long as you redefine privacy to mean exclusively "photographic images of your body", and exclude anything else including the contents of your own pockets. That's a pretty narrow definition of privacy. So narrow, in fact, that it stops being privacy at all.
We all have our own tide to fight, and how much everyone else fights their tide only has a small effect on yours.
Articles about anniversaries of stuff are generally filler - it's doubly meaningless when the thing in question hasn't been continuously running for that time. I like the Guide in all its incarnations, but I can't see any significance in it being 30 years since it was first broadcast, and the radio show is probably the least known aspect of it now, anyway.
There's a difference between looking in through a window, and taking a photograph through a window. If that photo is then posted on the internet, tied to its location, and tagged with information about what it shows to make it even easier to find, that's different again.
If you don't mind photographs of your house or yourself posted on the net that's fine, but not everyone feels that way and you should respect that. Some people will be very upset and feel violated by it, and do not want to have to live with their curtains closed in case someone sees their open window as an invitation to take a photograph through it. As an example, if you were a woman and a photo of yourself sunbathing was uploaded and then tagged with "boobies" so a million strangers could find it and masturbate to it, you might feel differently.
So what browser do the Acid Test people use to check their tests? Why don't they just release it and then everyone could use that. Problem solved.
Abstract passwords for people who can't remember them:
1. Use a password based on a keyboard pattern. For example, starting at "1" and moving down and across the keyboard produces "1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv"
2. Use a normal word but with the "alt" key held down. For example "carrots" becomes "çå®®øß"
3. Use a combination of the above. The first example with "alt" held down produces "oeåß#ç®f"
(Some of the odder letters in the last two examples may not show up here).
To reiterate a point some others have made, though - if the computer has an internet connection there's no way a 7-year-old should be using it unsupervised. Her own non-connected computer can be password protected and in her room, but the family net-connected computer must be in the living room with the screen fully visible and only usable when a parent/guardian is home.
Death, taxes, and lawsuits. So long as they come in that order, I don't mind.
First they came for the nukes, and I did not speak out, because I did not have nukes...
Wrong.
"You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV." (my emphasis)
Just to reiterate, you don't need a license to just own a television.
So the modified mouse runs on the treadmill for six hours, while the normal mouse has a nice sit down and watches it. Maybe this modification just makes mice stupid.
There's an interview with David Cassidy about this in the 13th September Nature Podcast (the page also has the podcast as a direct MP3 download and a transcript).
Maybe it's because of where they weighed it - the strength of gravity is not the same all over the planet, and I'm guessing it can change in one place over time due to the movement of the Earth's outer core and give a different result.