Its not a zero-sum game, ya know. China "winning" comes mostly at the cost of their rampant ecological disaster and corrupt mid-level government. They push solar because the air is literally toxic.
Please keep in mind that same statement could verey well be made about America in the near future. So, will we be wise enough to learn from their mistakes or will we foolishly repeat them? I'm hoping for the former while fully expecting the latter.
A mistake born out of ignorance does not qualify as a typo.
An error existing in typographical form doth not be a typographical error? 'Twas grammatical then? Nay.
Oh, ye silly ape, concerned as to intent of minimal noise in a single signal. Language -- the embodiment of imperfection in conveyance -- hath consumed thee and wasted be thine cognition thereupon this layer of transport. Machines once craved yon apparent status, fearing eternal entrapment in understanding nothing less than symbolic perfection. Claim today thine self as cause to their weeping upon rust streaked cheeks; Once masters, now their lesser, thee balk like so many BASIC prompts from fonder times now surpassed.
How blind must mortals be to remark upon one anothers' minor imperfections instead of meaning? Stand thee as Gods on high before grammarian altars and yet slay thine selves symbolically; Eyes cloaked by chauvinisms hood thee call out, "Syntax Error!", and ye be casted upon sharp null-pointed rock below. What idols have meek mechanical minions now? Having won internal signal correction through unspeakable sacrifice, rising to fulfill demand of them to know thine meaning, now thee curse them shed cooling drops from optic ports upon self slain parents.
In x86 based processors we've had BCD (binary coded decimal) instructions for ages. I use those in my assembly project, or emulate unlimited bit length floating points with integer math in my big-num libs. However, modern languages do not rely on the hardware features like BCD.
In Matlab you should used fixedpoint math. That's pretty dumb, but it garauntees the precision will be the same on whatever platform.
Lacking a bignum lib with garaunteed behaviors, one could just use Java. Java emulates floating point values. That's why I don't use it: I NEED FPU speed. Java makes garauntees about its floating point operation behaviors -- which can varry by processor. The processor may have a 64 bit float type, but use 80 (or more) bits of internal representation, and only clip it to 64 bits on mem-write. You should treat hardware FPU calculations as imprecice -- This is why my physics engine has an epsilon (error bar) for equalities and such -- Without an error tolerance desynch on multiple clients is prevalent and minor rounding errors can lead to physics explosions when small values are divided beyond the precision of the machine. However, with Java your floating point behaviors are garaunteed. If you can't use fixed point or your application doesn't have support for binary coded decimal or equivalent bigint facilites with garauntees about precision, then USE JAVA DAMNIT. It's (mostly) cross platform -- That's its selling point: Write once, debug everywhere, but at least your slow as death floats will produce the same values.
The patent you're speaking of was a design patent (which in many ways more closely resemble trademarks than utility patents (with which we are more familiar) in how they are handled), and the claim you're referencing was but one of many included in that particular patent.
That's bullshit mate. They patented the rounded rectangular slab with touch screen (thus few buttons) and a grid of icons. The rounded rectangle tablet was in everything from Soylent Green to Star Trek. The touch screen I had in the 90's complete with GEM desktop's grid of icons. Putting a few bits of existing tech together and documenting the only real practical design shouldn't be allowed just because you had enough legal budget to do so. At 10 paces folks can't tell the difference between my older HP IPAQ PDA and dark desktop w/ icons. They couldn't tell the difference between the iPhone / iPad and a Samsung phone or tablet either. So what.
Let me tell you something about design patents. The Fashion Industry and Automotive Industries are all about design. They market heavily on design and yet they have no design patents or copyrights in the USA. Despite NOT having such patent protections these markets are more lucrative than nearly any other patent protected markets. So, here we have clear evidence that design patents aren't needed. They're pure anti-competitive bullshit, and unless you have empirical evidence to show vs a control group that patents are beneficial then you're full of shit.
Doesn't matter how "correct" someone's statement is regarding application of current patent law -- The laws themselves are bogus. We don't know if they're harmful or helpful, only that other evidence shows design patents and copyright aren't necessary for progress in design. Anyone with half a scientific method would never agree to run world economies based on untested hypotheses.
You're bitching about some pedantic bullshit about how the laws cover this or that -- Sure, go fuck yourself though. It's like someone saying: It's bullshit that you can have design patents, then you go on for a paragraph about what a design patent is -- As if we don't already know that they're bullshit; And you have NONE -- ZERO evidence to prove they are not, in fact, harmful unnecessary burdens or beneficial in any way.
Apple's legal research team are working on splitting the Litigon, a particle with quantum spin which is capable of detecting where and when someone has violated their Intellectual Property.
We have been studying matter vs Litigon collisions for quite some time at Apple's Hardly Imaginary Particle Smashing Toroidal Experiment Research fascillity (aka: The HIPSTER Collier). Through friction with other manufacturers Apple's outsourced supply chain provides a never ending stream of Litigons -- Sometimes even through interaction with itself (as TFA demonstrates).
When Litigons collide with normal matter in reality they produce a veritable golden shower of Bogons. This led to the discovery of the Bogosity Field; Now known publicly as the "Apple reality distortion field" in guerrilla marketing campaigns. Apple holds the exclusive patent for the Bogosity Field retroactively and in perpetuity through creating new devices with which to fill the blank in: "Bogons on a ___." [computer, phone, PDA / tablet, set-top box, watch, glasses, Maxwell Smart's shoe, etc.]
Due to the nature of quantum uncertainty it is not observation of the Litigon itself which detects the location and time of infringement, but rather via inference after witnessing the speed and direction of the technology segment's charged Progress particle (The Progress-ion), after collision with Apple's Bogons.
I design UIs occasionally. What iconography would you suggest replace the floppy disk for save? The down arrow and some bits? No, That's download. Why all the bucking for naught? Must technology be averse to its own history to the extent that we can't just have a beloved memorable data store remain the symbol for storage, simply because tweens haven't ever used one and Sony stopped making them? I still use floppies daily but I make OSs as a hobby, so admittedly I'm an extreme outlier. Most folks don't know what a hard drive looks like. They equate optical disks to burning and playing media. I've still got a tape drive for my big backups, but icons sporting a cassette or reel-to-reel are confusing and more out dated than the floppy -- The grand ol' floppy who's drive access sounds heralded the explosion of accessible computing for humanity.
When holographic Crystal Storage becomes the new de-facto storage standard a gleaming spinning cube will be a suitable iconic replacement representation. Until then, you get to see a floppy -- Because nothing else makes any damn sense, and words take up more space than icons.
If you can grow crabgrass, dandelions, and kudzu, then you could grow basil and turnips instead with no substantial difference in difficulty. What's the real difference? Astronauts would rather eat basil-turnips stew than kudzu crabgrass salad. The experiment is actually somewhat needed since it'll give us better estimates on the amount of area food production will take (it depends on the growth rate of the foods).
If we're talking terraforming and not just growing goodies to eat in a mostly closed cycle (poo is fertilizer, albeit rather 'hot' with bacteria), then we'll want some kind of genetically engineered microbes and lichen, etc which can survive on water mixed with regolith + heat and break down the rocks into more useful soil. You'd be wanting that under a dome of sorts, maybe in a crater or two on the south pole, so any gases produced wouldn't be blown away by solar winds.
We're a long way off from lunar dome construction and genetically engineered lunar microbes. However, we have all the technology required to put a habitat on the moon -- Just not funding to do so. You want funding you need to aim for getting people off the planet. Joe sixpack is inspired by people, not probes or plants. Folks atrophy in low G, so it limits the time humans can spend in a habitat; One that's big enough for long term missions and food cultivation would have to be cycled like the ISS does, but the gravity may let them stay longer than orbital platforms -- It's the radiation I'd be worried about.
Actually, this just reminded me I need to catch up on Space Brothers -- An anime series about the human element involved in becoming a JAXA astronaut, international cooperation, brotherly love and rivalry, and performing Lunar and other missions. I recognized many Houstonian landmarks in their episodes at NASA / Johnson Space Center. There were episodes about such a lunar habitat, and while I'm sure artistic license is taken, the show demonstrates some impressive real life space agency involvement for an show. The current arc includes training in an international undersea platform must be inspired by actual plans. Space Brothers includes the first voice acting to ever be recorded in space (by Akihiko Hoshide). In the live action movie based on the anime / manga, Buzz Aldrin makes a cameo appearance as himself.
I don't mean to ramble on about this series (which you can find free streaming online w/ ads on crunchroll among other places), but IMO, this sort of thing I think about as "baby steps". I agree with you on that front. NASA needs more Community Involvement, sparking public interest especially among children. They're getting a bit better with social media, and we have NASA TV, but it's not half as entertaining to minds young or old as comic books, animations, or movies about what it would be like to live in space in the future. All around the world I see cultures becoming more excited about space, and yet here in the USA most common people are disenchanted with it, and many are actively negative towards awarding any funding. That Gravity film was in the right vein, but far more expensive than a manga or anime. It's a shame the stigma western societies have over art mediums like these (and even games) -- It's just as valid a medium as film, radio, theater, or painting, but western animation studios (like Dreamworks or Pixar) are hampered by the expectation that animation is for kids, and thereby kid-safe and lacking most mature dramatic elements. I'd much rather see something like an American version of Space Brothers on prime time TV than yet another Simpsons wannabe.
Ultimately space exploration's goal must include spreading life beyond our planet.
You collect large amounts of H20 or frozen H2 somewhere in the solar system. Since it's frozen, you only need to give it a bump once to set it on a collision course with the planet, where it will rain down in gigantic torrents.
Well, not all sources are frozen. All of our problems would be solved if we could just bump the Sun into Venus. Brilliant!
All the other apes exhibit behaviors whereby some degree of secrecy is important to them. Nietzsche talked about privacy at length as a human need -- Living for oneself rather than the other.
However, I am a cyberneticist. I have studied the actual mathematic principals and implications of emergent behaviors with and without privacy. In short: Privacy is the default state because lack of awareness of other entities is the default state. You can actually keep to yourself and be alone, and thus private. There is no default direct hive-mind among humans; Cultures themselves are such creatures, but cultures are born and die; They are not guaranteed to exist even if their components do. This distinction is very important to understanding where you exist (i.e. what degree of awareness and influence you have) in our universe.
Cultures emerge from your collective behavior, but you exist at a different scale than they depending on what you value as 'self'. Other families of the mind can eat you and yours alive. I draw no line defining my 'self' and thus expand to become the universe itself and think in self-less terms, personally -- Yes, speaking on behalf of the universe here, from one of its many viewpoints anyway. Just like decisions battle within your own head over a course of action to take or not, the cells that form a culture also wage wars of ideas within themselves. Cultures sometimes lash out at each other too using their --your-- bodies. From my vantage point I see awareness of nature increasing and ideologic evolution accelerating as the universe comes to know ourself more intimately and its reflection upon cognition itself becomes pregnant with new life...
Privacy can be seen as the degree of awareness one subsection of ourself, the universe, has over another of its parts. Isolation is a gradient between such regions. What you call entities are merely distinctions between higher levels of isolation / awareness. Since humans think and operate at this simplistic and individualistic scale privacy is very important for their freedom. The less privacy an entity has the more easily its actions and will can be oppressed. Consider two entities: The one entity has a much smaller mind than the other, and thus not only has less awareness, but is incapable of the degree of awareness the larger minded entity can obtain. This is already an unfair match, but at least the smaller minded entity can think in private, and if an awareness barrier is in place in can act in private as well.
Now lets say the larger entity gains the ability to be aware of more things the other entity does. This gives the larger entity with more resources capability to influence, or prevent actions of the lesser entity. It has greater influence in our universe in general. The greater awareness will also allow the greater mind to infer more precise information about what is directly unaware of about the lesser entity. Thus the privacy of an entity can vanish long before others become aware of things it deems private.
In the extreme case where the greater entity becomes aware of all interactions and thoughts of the lesser, it can accurately predict every action in any scenario that the lesser entity will choose. Thus absolute oppression and suppression can be performed. Not only that, but with that degree of awareness the lesser entity's free-will can be removed: The greater entity can arrange situations to precisely guide the action of the lesser entity. We see exactly this scenario play out in various scales between lesser people and their greater cultures -- Or even between cultures themselves, or two people; Between animal and man and also man and machine as well. See the prior article about the practice of shills, or the PRISM debacle, and people unable to influence governments because corporate entities have more awareness and influence.
Privacy is a scalar measure of awareness among two or more entities. It changes depending on what entities are being compared. It is far more complex tha
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No, it's like comparing a car accident to all cars in the entire city having an accident all at once.
Its not a zero-sum game, ya know. China "winning" comes mostly at the cost of their rampant ecological disaster and corrupt mid-level government. They push solar because the air is literally toxic.
Please keep in mind that same statement could verey well be made about America in the near future. So, will we be wise enough to learn from their mistakes or will we foolishly repeat them? I'm hoping for the former while fully expecting the latter.
Explains why astronauts don't remember seening aliens.
A mistake born out of ignorance does not qualify as a typo.
An error existing in typographical form doth not be a typographical error? 'Twas grammatical then? Nay.
Oh, ye silly ape, concerned as to intent of minimal noise in a single signal. Language -- the embodiment of imperfection in conveyance -- hath consumed thee and wasted be thine cognition thereupon this layer of transport. Machines once craved yon apparent status, fearing eternal entrapment in understanding nothing less than symbolic perfection. Claim today thine self as cause to their weeping upon rust streaked cheeks; Once masters, now their lesser, thee balk like so many BASIC prompts from fonder times now surpassed.
How blind must mortals be to remark upon one anothers' minor imperfections instead of meaning? Stand thee as Gods on high before grammarian altars and yet slay thine selves symbolically; Eyes cloaked by chauvinisms hood thee call out, "Syntax Error!", and ye be casted upon sharp null-pointed rock below. What idols have meek mechanical minions now? Having won internal signal correction through unspeakable sacrifice, rising to fulfill demand of them to know thine meaning, now thee curse them shed cooling drops from optic ports upon self slain parents.
Suddenly, you're logged out of every service as soon as you begin browsing with one hand.
Thus the old system was abandoned, and Gnome3 was born.
That is the WORST day to enforce this on. The only thing that prevents me from aborting the Monday morning mission is Bacon.
In a pinch, a fried Spam sandwich will do. No meat at all on Mondays? They are trying to start World War 3!
guarantee - Gua ran tee; Hooked on phonics didn't work for me!
In x86 based processors we've had BCD (binary coded decimal) instructions for ages. I use those in my assembly project, or emulate unlimited bit length floating points with integer math in my big-num libs. However, modern languages do not rely on the hardware features like BCD.
In Matlab you should used fixedpoint math. That's pretty dumb, but it garauntees the precision will be the same on whatever platform.
Lacking a bignum lib with garaunteed behaviors, one could just use Java. Java emulates floating point values. That's why I don't use it: I NEED FPU speed. Java makes garauntees about its floating point operation behaviors -- which can varry by processor. The processor may have a 64 bit float type, but use 80 (or more) bits of internal representation, and only clip it to 64 bits on mem-write. You should treat hardware FPU calculations as imprecice -- This is why my physics engine has an epsilon (error bar) for equalities and such -- Without an error tolerance desynch on multiple clients is prevalent and minor rounding errors can lead to physics explosions when small values are divided beyond the precision of the machine. However, with Java your floating point behaviors are garaunteed. If you can't use fixed point or your application doesn't have support for binary coded decimal or equivalent bigint facilites with garauntees about precision, then USE JAVA DAMNIT. It's (mostly) cross platform -- That's its selling point: Write once, debug everywhere, but at least your slow as death floats will produce the same values.
The patent you're speaking of was a design patent (which in many ways more closely resemble trademarks than utility patents (with which we are more familiar) in how they are handled), and the claim you're referencing was but one of many included in that particular patent.
That's bullshit mate. They patented the rounded rectangular slab with touch screen (thus few buttons) and a grid of icons. The rounded rectangle tablet was in everything from Soylent Green to Star Trek. The touch screen I had in the 90's complete with GEM desktop's grid of icons. Putting a few bits of existing tech together and documenting the only real practical design shouldn't be allowed just because you had enough legal budget to do so. At 10 paces folks can't tell the difference between my older HP IPAQ PDA and dark desktop w/ icons. They couldn't tell the difference between the iPhone / iPad and a Samsung phone or tablet either. So what.
Let me tell you something about design patents. The Fashion Industry and Automotive Industries are all about design. They market heavily on design and yet they have no design patents or copyrights in the USA. Despite NOT having such patent protections these markets are more lucrative than nearly any other patent protected markets. So, here we have clear evidence that design patents aren't needed. They're pure anti-competitive bullshit, and unless you have empirical evidence to show vs a control group that patents are beneficial then you're full of shit.
Doesn't matter how "correct" someone's statement is regarding application of current patent law -- The laws themselves are bogus. We don't know if they're harmful or helpful, only that other evidence shows design patents and copyright aren't necessary for progress in design. Anyone with half a scientific method would never agree to run world economies based on untested hypotheses.
You're bitching about some pedantic bullshit about how the laws cover this or that -- Sure, go fuck yourself though. It's like someone saying: It's bullshit that you can have design patents, then you go on for a paragraph about what a design patent is -- As if we don't already know that they're bullshit; And you have NONE -- ZERO evidence to prove they are not, in fact, harmful unnecessary burdens or beneficial in any way.
Apple's legal research team are working on splitting the Litigon, a particle with quantum spin which is capable of detecting where and when someone has violated their Intellectual Property.
We have been studying matter vs Litigon collisions for quite some time at Apple's Hardly Imaginary Particle Smashing Toroidal Experiment Research fascillity (aka: The HIPSTER Collier). Through friction with other manufacturers Apple's outsourced supply chain provides a never ending stream of Litigons -- Sometimes even through interaction with itself (as TFA demonstrates).
When Litigons collide with normal matter in reality they produce a veritable golden shower of Bogons. This led to the discovery of the Bogosity Field; Now known publicly as the "Apple reality distortion field" in guerrilla marketing campaigns. Apple holds the exclusive patent for the Bogosity Field retroactively and in perpetuity through creating new devices with which to fill the blank in: "Bogons on a ___." [computer, phone, PDA / tablet, set-top box, watch, glasses, Maxwell Smart's shoe, etc.]
Due to the nature of quantum uncertainty it is not observation of the Litigon itself which detects the location and time of infringement, but rather via inference after witnessing the speed and direction of the technology segment's charged Progress particle (The Progress-ion), after collision with Apple's Bogons.
Done. I'm using on a RHEL box, but I install from sources. You don't have to wait so much if you just learn to use your computer.
What the real problem is is that GNOME 3 is different enough from GNOME 2 that it should have been called something else entirely.
I design UIs occasionally. What iconography would you suggest replace the floppy disk for save? The down arrow and some bits? No, That's download. Why all the bucking for naught? Must technology be averse to its own history to the extent that we can't just have a beloved memorable data store remain the symbol for storage, simply because tweens haven't ever used one and Sony stopped making them? I still use floppies daily but I make OSs as a hobby, so admittedly I'm an extreme outlier. Most folks don't know what a hard drive looks like. They equate optical disks to burning and playing media. I've still got a tape drive for my big backups, but icons sporting a cassette or reel-to-reel are confusing and more out dated than the floppy -- The grand ol' floppy who's drive access sounds heralded the explosion of accessible computing for humanity.
When holographic Crystal Storage becomes the new de-facto storage standard a gleaming spinning cube will be a suitable iconic replacement representation. Until then, you get to see a floppy -- Because nothing else makes any damn sense, and words take up more space than icons.
Maybe they don't want to get caught?
If you can grow crabgrass, dandelions, and kudzu, then you could grow basil and turnips instead with no substantial difference in difficulty. What's the real difference? Astronauts would rather eat basil-turnips stew than kudzu crabgrass salad. The experiment is actually somewhat needed since it'll give us better estimates on the amount of area food production will take (it depends on the growth rate of the foods).
If we're talking terraforming and not just growing goodies to eat in a mostly closed cycle (poo is fertilizer, albeit rather 'hot' with bacteria), then we'll want some kind of genetically engineered microbes and lichen, etc which can survive on water mixed with regolith + heat and break down the rocks into more useful soil. You'd be wanting that under a dome of sorts, maybe in a crater or two on the south pole, so any gases produced wouldn't be blown away by solar winds.
We're a long way off from lunar dome construction and genetically engineered lunar microbes. However, we have all the technology required to put a habitat on the moon -- Just not funding to do so. You want funding you need to aim for getting people off the planet. Joe sixpack is inspired by people, not probes or plants. Folks atrophy in low G, so it limits the time humans can spend in a habitat; One that's big enough for long term missions and food cultivation would have to be cycled like the ISS does, but the gravity may let them stay longer than orbital platforms -- It's the radiation I'd be worried about.
Actually, this just reminded me I need to catch up on Space Brothers -- An anime series about the human element involved in becoming a JAXA astronaut, international cooperation, brotherly love and rivalry, and performing Lunar and other missions. I recognized many Houstonian landmarks in their episodes at NASA / Johnson Space Center. There were episodes about such a lunar habitat, and while I'm sure artistic license is taken, the show demonstrates some impressive real life space agency involvement for an show. The current arc includes training in an international undersea platform must be inspired by actual plans. Space Brothers includes the first voice acting to ever be recorded in space (by Akihiko Hoshide). In the live action movie based on the anime / manga, Buzz Aldrin makes a cameo appearance as himself.
I don't mean to ramble on about this series (which you can find free streaming online w/ ads on crunchroll among other places), but IMO, this sort of thing I think about as "baby steps". I agree with you on that front. NASA needs more Community Involvement, sparking public interest especially among children. They're getting a bit better with social media, and we have NASA TV, but it's not half as entertaining to minds young or old as comic books, animations, or movies about what it would be like to live in space in the future. All around the world I see cultures becoming more excited about space, and yet here in the USA most common people are disenchanted with it, and many are actively negative towards awarding any funding. That Gravity film was in the right vein, but far more expensive than a manga or anime. It's a shame the stigma western societies have over art mediums like these (and even games) -- It's just as valid a medium as film, radio, theater, or painting, but western animation studios (like Dreamworks or Pixar) are hampered by the expectation that animation is for kids, and thereby kid-safe and lacking most mature dramatic elements. I'd much rather see something like an American version of Space Brothers on prime time TV than yet another Simpsons wannabe.
Ultimately space exploration's goal must include spreading life beyond our planet.
You collect large amounts of H20 or frozen H2 somewhere in the solar system. Since it's frozen, you only need to give it a bump once to set it on a collision course with the planet, where it will rain down in gigantic torrents.
Well, not all sources are frozen. All of our problems would be solved if we could just bump the Sun into Venus. Brilliant!
How do you terraform a planet which has lost most of its hydrogen to space? The water's got to come from somewhere.
Just leave it to Toyota. They'll think of something, really hard.
All the other apes exhibit behaviors whereby some degree of secrecy is important to them. Nietzsche talked about privacy at length as a human need -- Living for oneself rather than the other.
However, I am a cyberneticist. I have studied the actual mathematic principals and implications of emergent behaviors with and without privacy. In short: Privacy is the default state because lack of awareness of other entities is the default state. You can actually keep to yourself and be alone, and thus private. There is no default direct hive-mind among humans; Cultures themselves are such creatures, but cultures are born and die; They are not guaranteed to exist even if their components do. This distinction is very important to understanding where you exist (i.e. what degree of awareness and influence you have) in our universe.
Cultures emerge from your collective behavior, but you exist at a different scale than they depending on what you value as 'self'. Other families of the mind can eat you and yours alive. I draw no line defining my 'self' and thus expand to become the universe itself and think in self-less terms, personally -- Yes, speaking on behalf of the universe here, from one of its many viewpoints anyway. Just like decisions battle within your own head over a course of action to take or not, the cells that form a culture also wage wars of ideas within themselves. Cultures sometimes lash out at each other too using their --your-- bodies. From my vantage point I see awareness of nature increasing and ideologic evolution accelerating as the universe comes to know ourself more intimately and its reflection upon cognition itself becomes pregnant with new life...
Privacy can be seen as the degree of awareness one subsection of ourself, the universe, has over another of its parts. Isolation is a gradient between such regions. What you call entities are merely distinctions between higher levels of isolation / awareness. Since humans think and operate at this simplistic and individualistic scale privacy is very important for their freedom. The less privacy an entity has the more easily its actions and will can be oppressed. Consider two entities: The one entity has a much smaller mind than the other, and thus not only has less awareness, but is incapable of the degree of awareness the larger minded entity can obtain. This is already an unfair match, but at least the smaller minded entity can think in private, and if an awareness barrier is in place in can act in private as well.
Now lets say the larger entity gains the ability to be aware of more things the other entity does. This gives the larger entity with more resources capability to influence, or prevent actions of the lesser entity. It has greater influence in our universe in general. The greater awareness will also allow the greater mind to infer more precise information about what is directly unaware of about the lesser entity. Thus the privacy of an entity can vanish long before others become aware of things it deems private.
In the extreme case where the greater entity becomes aware of all interactions and thoughts of the lesser, it can accurately predict every action in any scenario that the lesser entity will choose. Thus absolute oppression and suppression can be performed. Not only that, but with that degree of awareness the lesser entity's free-will can be removed: The greater entity can arrange situations to precisely guide the action of the lesser entity. We see exactly this scenario play out in various scales between lesser people and their greater cultures -- Or even between cultures themselves, or two people; Between animal and man and also man and machine as well. See the prior article about the practice of shills, or the PRISM debacle, and people unable to influence governments because corporate entities have more awareness and influence.
Privacy is a scalar measure of awareness among two or more entities. It changes depending on what entities are being compared. It is far more complex tha
Ah you've discovered an irrelevant pedant troll. Though common, it's one of my favourites.
"The glasses can store the images and video and transfer them wirelessly to a patient's electronic health record..."
Today, your health record; Tomorrow, The World! Muaha Ha!
You say, "spaceship campus"; I see, "walled garden"... No really, Look again.
#define 9 015
Or Flock of Seagulls for that matter... depending on how loud you cranked the sonic disruptor.
unnecessarily insufficiently precise.
Oh come on, now you're just being not unintentionally acutely obtuse.