I don't see the concern. I don't hesitate to use my real name, but I have never proven my identity to any website in a meaningful manner. The Internet just takes my word for it. I have never actually supplied verifiable proof of my identity to any website (even, technically, for purchases).
I very much value my privacy. I'm just not foolish enough to believe that the internet is a place where privacy occurs. It's a public space. Treat it as such if you really do value your privacy.
While watching television the other night, I was subjected to a commercial for kitty litter. After a moment's thought, I realized I have never seen such an ad online. In fact, on the rare occasion that I actually notice ads online, they tend to be for goods and/or services that are, in fact, of interest to me.
Personally, I'm pretty okay with targeted ads. But then, I don't give a rat's ass whether anybody reads my email.
Mainly because it was Cingular when I started there, and they haven't yet pissed me off enough to bother going through the effort of switching. I am unable to tell you about the nuts and bolts of my plan because it really just doesn't interest me and I'm too lazy to open another tab and track down the details. This is what I know of it, though:
- I can't comment about dropped calls, simply because I hardly ever use the thing as an actual phone. On the rare occasion that I do use it as a phone, I push a few buttons and it connects me to other people. Then I talk to them. Usually briefly.
- When I want to know where I am, my device locates me quite accurately on a map. A map, in fact, that is a remarkably useful thing by itself.
- If I wish to take part in the Internet, my device connects me to it. The connection is adequate. It is certainly not as lively as I prefer, but I never expect much from any connection away from my own desk. And I'm really not all that interested in taking part in the Internet when I'm away from my desk, anyway.
- My device takes decent photos and video. This is a key feature in my life. As a father of a 6-year-old, I cannot overstate the value of always having a camera and video camera in my pocket.
- My device is also quite good at keeping boredom at bay. It can carry around a ridiculous amount of video games, movies, music and books.
- It's also useful for keeping track of my life.
- And there's a meaninglessly large amount of apps for the thing. The actual number is meaningless because I will never even look at more than a tiny fraction of them.
Come to think of it, it's a rather remarkable device. And it costs about the same as my cable.
1) Every experience I have ever had with a printer has sucked. While every other aspect of technology gets faster and smarter, printing keeps getting slower and dumber. Logic would dictate that 3D printing would suck just as much as 2D printing, as well as sucking in an additional dimension.
2) I attended Maker Faire this year, and I have to say the single most disappointing aspect of it was the 3D printing exhibits. Booth after booth displayed rather cool-looking little trinkets that had absolutely no use whatsoever. From the looks of it, 3D printing is a technology that exists purely for its own sake. Thousands of geeks used hundreds of devices to produce massive piles of useless crap.
I'll consider being impressed by 3D printing as soon as someone actually starts doing something useful with it.
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Am I the only one seeing the fundamental flaw here?
They actually do shit with data.
I would have just assumed someone in the porn industry already owned that one.
It reads more like a commercial for the 1964 fair than a series of predictions for a future one.
Looks to me like a Smartphone you'll never misplace.
Linux is the operating system of the people. This alone justifies its existence.
I was born knowing every keyboard shortcut ever in use, so I can rationalize being a snarky dick about this.
I don't see the concern. I don't hesitate to use my real name, but I have never proven my identity to any website in a meaningful manner. The Internet just takes my word for it. I have never actually supplied verifiable proof of my identity to any website (even, technically, for purchases).
Holy crap. There is an International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. This thing actually exists.
Holy crap. Are you still using Windows 98?
There is no privacy on the internet. None.
Why do so many people find this so hard to understand?
If they had waited for 3D printers to actually become useful before they attempted to make them useless.
An unqualified moron publishes paper full of hearsay and speculation.
It pays to read the article cited.
And they will all be using Internet Explorer 6.
I very much value my privacy. I'm just not foolish enough to believe that the internet is a place where privacy occurs. It's a public space. Treat it as such if you really do value your privacy.
While watching television the other night, I was subjected to a commercial for kitty litter. After a moment's thought, I realized I have never seen such an ad online. In fact, on the rare occasion that I actually notice ads online, they tend to be for goods and/or services that are, in fact, of interest to me.
Personally, I'm pretty okay with targeted ads. But then, I don't give a rat's ass whether anybody reads my email.
Never heard of them. How many in the Kessel Run?
It gives me a warm, pink, fuzzy feeling knowing that corporate America is looking out for my best interests.
Mainly because it was Cingular when I started there, and they haven't yet pissed me off enough to bother going through the effort of switching. I am unable to tell you about the nuts and bolts of my plan because it really just doesn't interest me and I'm too lazy to open another tab and track down the details. This is what I know of it, though:
- I can't comment about dropped calls, simply because I hardly ever use the thing as an actual phone. On the rare occasion that I do use it as a phone, I push a few buttons and it connects me to other people. Then I talk to them. Usually briefly.
- When I want to know where I am, my device locates me quite accurately on a map. A map, in fact, that is a remarkably useful thing by itself.
- If I wish to take part in the Internet, my device connects me to it. The connection is adequate. It is certainly not as lively as I prefer, but I never expect much from any connection away from my own desk. And I'm really not all that interested in taking part in the Internet when I'm away from my desk, anyway.
- My device takes decent photos and video. This is a key feature in my life. As a father of a 6-year-old, I cannot overstate the value of always having a camera and video camera in my pocket.
- My device is also quite good at keeping boredom at bay. It can carry around a ridiculous amount of video games, movies, music and books.
- It's also useful for keeping track of my life.
- And there's a meaninglessly large amount of apps for the thing. The actual number is meaningless because I will never even look at more than a tiny fraction of them.
Come to think of it, it's a rather remarkable device. And it costs about the same as my cable.
is what technology is for.
1) Every experience I have ever had with a printer has sucked. While every other aspect of technology gets faster and smarter, printing keeps getting slower and dumber. Logic would dictate that 3D printing would suck just as much as 2D printing, as well as sucking in an additional dimension.
2) I attended Maker Faire this year, and I have to say the single most disappointing aspect of it was the 3D printing exhibits. Booth after booth displayed rather cool-looking little trinkets that had absolutely no use whatsoever. From the looks of it, 3D printing is a technology that exists purely for its own sake. Thousands of geeks used hundreds of devices to produce massive piles of useless crap.
I'll consider being impressed by 3D printing as soon as someone actually starts doing something useful with it.
I can't think of any circumstance in which I would want to send a single message to everyone in my address book.
Safari Users. We could be talking as many as 2 dozen people here.
We have a right to anonymity? Since when?
Gnome 3. Unity.
The Linux desktop committed suicide.