So I guess you're fine with "up-skirt" photos, as long as the perpetrator gets the shot on an escalator or something like that, so he could claim the view was there for anyone who looked.
This issue isn't as simple as you claim, as anybody with even a modicum of common sense understands.
A pretty young girl whose business card reads "The Howard Foundation" shows up at the bedside of several male subjects and says with a wink, "Have I got a deal for you."
You used the word "fuck" twice, yet you apparently haven't come to the realization that long before the horrid, craptacular garbage (with exceptions...let's be fair) passing itself off as television these days gets into this, there will be a thriving, multi-quintillion-dollar pron industry making use of the tech.
It's basketball. Really, does anybody with a working brain really give a screw about this game? I guess it's marginally more interesting than soccer, but compared to games suitable for men to play...not so much.
In Winnipeg, it isn't that mosquitoes can't fly in the rain, they just don't like it very much. Usually, your basic Winnipeg mosquitoes just jack a car and drive to their next victim. If the driver's lucky, the mosquitoes will let him go instead of keeping him for an en route snack. If there's a dog or cat in the car...don't ask. It won't be seen again.
A 60TB hard drive? This raises the bar on the amount of damage caused by an unfortunate case of "hangover-assisted butterfingers" to undreamed-of heights!
Here's me with no Mod Points and you with a big, fat zero. That is NOT right! Yours is one of the most interesting comments I've read here in quite some time.
We've all seen examples of how the most homophobic people are the ones who get caught on their knees in men's rooms. Larry Craig comes to mind, of course, but there are many others.
It's hard not to suspect that people like Vic Toews, who are so quick to call everybody who disagrees with them a child molester, don't have some interesting pictures lurking on key drives that are never left lying around.
Nice work, but I'm accurate about the law. It was primarily the Toronto Police who enforced it, often with excessive force, but it was the province that misled people about its existence, then left Bill Blair to explain it all. Here's the best link you'll find on the matter:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/29/g20-chief-fence571.html
Cheers.
I bet it will take people who prefer to do their own driving about three seconds to figure out that the driverless cars will have all kinds of collision avoidance hardware/software built in.
This will make aggressive driving 'way, 'way more fun.;-)
It wasn't actually Harper's pack of neocon thugs who arrested people "using a law that didn't exist". It was the Liberals under Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty who did that. Don't worry, though, there were lots and lots of police at all levels laying beatings on people. There were the RCMP (federal) the Ontario Provincial Police (provincial) and the Toronto Police (city), all mixing together for a lovely little club fest. From the way the cops behaved, you'd have thought the protesters were wearing baby seal costumes.
I know somebody who downloaded the camcorder copy (I would never do such a thing myself, of course). This person attended the 3D version with me, paying full price and enjoying the experience enormously.
The only people who would watch the camcorder version without going to see the real thing probably can't afford to go, and are no loss at the box office. Windfall profits from DVD and on-line viewing were never part of the movie business model, and I couldn't care less about them.
Free societies have always worked in part because when stupid laws are inevitably enacted, a lot of people ignore them with impunity. There has been freedom in anonymity. But face recognition technology is improving, surveillance cameras are proliferating, and other things like cell phones and debit cards make it trivially easy to see where people are and what they're doing. The only real safeguard of a free society, the inability of corporations and governments to deal with the vast sea of data, is coming to an end. And never mind actual laws. Kids who demonstrated against oil drilling in national parks when they were 13 will find themselves explaining to a job interviewer why they hate capitalism when they graduate from college.
So my vote for major danger...at least to a free society...would be quantum computing as it affects D-base management.
The US and Russia have funded almost every foray past Low Earth Orbit. Russia might keep going in a very small way, but the US is far too dominated by bean counters and corporate whores.
In 10 or 15 years, the "language of space" will probably be Chinese.
And in the belly of an oddly-configured 747 flying just beyond North Korea's radar horizon, a scientist skilled in laser technology was heard to mutter, "Pull!"
Thanks for that information. My next question would concern whether the actual electronics in an iPhone (or something similar) are being used to the maximum. There's a lot of chips operating at less-than-capacity in bottom-end graphics cards, PC's and the like. The manufacturer puts the same chip in everything, and disables part of its capacity in the firmware. Wouldn't it be neat if somebody a lot more educated than me took a very close look at a smart phone and found out that was the case? It would certainly help fill in any gaps left by the devices you mention...if that was necessary .
Again, thanks for understanding exactly what I meant and giving me a really good answer. I'm not about to build something like that myself, but I'm very interested in what's actually possible instead of the usual, breathless, "gee-whiz" stuff we're subjected to in the popular press.
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So I guess you're fine with "up-skirt" photos, as long as the perpetrator gets the shot on an escalator or something like that, so he could claim the view was there for anyone who looked.
This issue isn't as simple as you claim, as anybody with even a modicum of common sense understands.
A pretty young girl whose business card reads "The Howard Foundation" shows up at the bedside of several male subjects and says with a wink, "Have I got a deal for you."
...Just legalize them. ALL of them. Deal with the people who can't deal with drugs as a health care problem, exactly the way alcoholism is addressed.
How big a problem is bootlegging since Prohibition was repealed?
You used the word "fuck" twice, yet you apparently haven't come to the realization that long before the horrid, craptacular garbage (with exceptions...let's be fair) passing itself off as television these days gets into this, there will be a thriving, multi-quintillion-dollar pron industry making use of the tech.
It's basketball. Really, does anybody with a working brain really give a screw about this game? I guess it's marginally more interesting than soccer, but compared to games suitable for men to play...not so much.
"Which U.S. college offered the first CS degree?"
I believe it was Jerry Falwell's Liberty Christian University. But the computer was an abacus, and it could only count up to 6,000.
If it doesn't have a high tolerance for alcohol and occasional other recreational medications, I'd be screwed.
Initially, they tried using conservatives, but it was just too hard to get one near a conflict zone.
I'm not from Winnipeg, as a matter of fact. But I've visited, at exactly the wrong time of year for anyone sensitive to mosquito bites.
I live near Hamilton...Winnipeg has the same kind of feel to it (and I don't mean that in a bad way).
In Winnipeg, it isn't that mosquitoes can't fly in the rain, they just don't like it very much. Usually, your basic Winnipeg mosquitoes just jack a car and drive to their next victim. If the driver's lucky, the mosquitoes will let him go instead of keeping him for an en route snack. If there's a dog or cat in the car...don't ask. It won't be seen again.
A 60TB hard drive? This raises the bar on the amount of damage caused by an unfortunate case of "hangover-assisted butterfingers" to undreamed-of heights!
Here's me with no Mod Points and you with a big, fat zero. That is NOT right! Yours is one of the most interesting comments I've read here in quite some time.
We've all seen examples of how the most homophobic people are the ones who get caught on their knees in men's rooms. Larry Craig comes to mind, of course, but there are many others.
It's hard not to suspect that people like Vic Toews, who are so quick to call everybody who disagrees with them a child molester, don't have some interesting pictures lurking on key drives that are never left lying around.
I feel your pain...I was proud of that one.
Nice work, but I'm accurate about the law. It was primarily the Toronto Police who enforced it, often with excessive force, but it was the province that misled people about its existence, then left Bill Blair to explain it all. Here's the best link you'll find on the matter: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/29/g20-chief-fence571.html Cheers.
I bet it will take people who prefer to do their own driving about three seconds to figure out that the driverless cars will have all kinds of collision avoidance hardware/software built in.
This will make aggressive driving 'way, 'way more fun. ;-)
It wasn't actually Harper's pack of neocon thugs who arrested people "using a law that didn't exist". It was the Liberals under Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty who did that. Don't worry, though, there were lots and lots of police at all levels laying beatings on people. There were the RCMP (federal) the Ontario Provincial Police (provincial) and the Toronto Police (city), all mixing together for a lovely little club fest. From the way the cops behaved, you'd have thought the protesters were wearing baby seal costumes.
I know somebody who downloaded the camcorder copy (I would never do such a thing myself, of course). This person attended the 3D version with me, paying full price and enjoying the experience enormously.
The only people who would watch the camcorder version without going to see the real thing probably can't afford to go, and are no loss at the box office. Windfall profits from DVD and on-line viewing were never part of the movie business model, and I couldn't care less about them.
Free societies have always worked in part because when stupid laws are inevitably enacted, a lot of people ignore them with impunity. There has been freedom in anonymity. But face recognition technology is improving, surveillance cameras are proliferating, and other things like cell phones and debit cards make it trivially easy to see where people are and what they're doing. The only real safeguard of a free society, the inability of corporations and governments to deal with the vast sea of data, is coming to an end. And never mind actual laws. Kids who demonstrated against oil drilling in national parks when they were 13 will find themselves explaining to a job interviewer why they hate capitalism when they graduate from college.
So my vote for major danger...at least to a free society...would be quantum computing as it affects D-base management.
Yeah...she figured out I was doing all the really dirty stuff with your mom.
If I want to know something, I just have to ask my ex. She knows everything.
The US and Russia have funded almost every foray past Low Earth Orbit. Russia might keep going in a very small way, but the US is far too dominated by bean counters and corporate whores.
In 10 or 15 years, the "language of space" will probably be Chinese.
If I was allowed to moderate my own comment, I'd absolutely mod you up. Thanks for the laugh!
And in the belly of an oddly-configured 747 flying just beyond North Korea's radar horizon, a scientist skilled in laser technology was heard to mutter, "Pull!"
Thanks for that information. My next question would concern whether the actual electronics in an iPhone (or something similar) are being used to the maximum. There's a lot of chips operating at less-than-capacity in bottom-end graphics cards, PC's and the like. The manufacturer puts the same chip in everything, and disables part of its capacity in the firmware. Wouldn't it be neat if somebody a lot more educated than me took a very close look at a smart phone and found out that was the case? It would certainly help fill in any gaps left by the devices you mention...if that was necessary .
Again, thanks for understanding exactly what I meant and giving me a really good answer. I'm not about to build something like that myself, but I'm very interested in what's actually possible instead of the usual, breathless, "gee-whiz" stuff we're subjected to in the popular press.