I wonder if they would use this webcam access for other purposes as long as it's available. Where is the customer looking? For how long? What's their facial expression? Is she hot or not? What's she wearing?
Don't move your head. Don't twitch. Just stare straight ahead. Keep staring at the screen.
What a nightmare.
The only possible use for this that I can imagine is for accessibility of the disabled, but there are solutions for that already.
I first took a look at Linux with a Knoppix live CD back in 2001 or so, but didn't really do anything with it. I first used Linux several months later when I used Knoppix to fix my MBR.
Linux became my new form of open-ended play, replacing Lego.
So is it sexual assault if I digitally alter an innocent image of an adult?
If so, how? If not, why would it be for kids?
The pedos will get their rocks off somehow. Do we really want to make the harmless methods just as illegal as rape and molestation?
Do I need the permission of the person photographed before I alter a photo of them?
Messenger TV will have vastly superior anti-Rickrolling capabilities. The service that the article describes is a demonstration of the feature that will be in Messenger TV!
But consider that with, say, 5,000 of these laptops a teacher has the ability to write course material and disperse it to all of the laptops and beyond to the rest of the world. If the e-texts aren't currently available it would just take one ambitious teacher to solve the problem. Then consider how many teachers will want to produce their own teaching materials once they see how widely they could be used.
I don't see how archaic spelling and fragmented words are a problem. It not important that you know the word, only that you can spell it. If you correctly spell "ad-" and someone else correctly spells "vances" they'll get stitched together to form the correct word.
How does this thing handle capitalizations? What are the chances that two people will be too lazy to Capitalize the proper nouns and acronyms? Two matches to verify a word seems low.
Crap I just checked it. I found a group with two capitalized words and entered them without caps. It accepted it.
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I wonder if they would use this webcam access for other purposes as long as it's available. Where is the customer looking? For how long? What's their facial expression? Is she hot or not? What's she wearing?
Don't move your head. Don't twitch. Just stare straight ahead. Keep staring at the screen. What a nightmare. The only possible use for this that I can imagine is for accessibility of the disabled, but there are solutions for that already.
If you are sure that mindless partisans are incurable jackasses, then maybe you should concentrate on the opinions/actions of the more reasonable.
Just a suggestion.
Seriously, plenty of people have mentioned the issue of partisanship.
I first took a look at Linux with a Knoppix live CD back in 2001 or so, but didn't really do anything with it. I first used Linux several months later when I used Knoppix to fix my MBR. Linux became my new form of open-ended play, replacing Lego.
Is there any way that it could be worse than coal? Do you need two years to answer this question?
So is it sexual assault if I digitally alter an innocent image of an adult? If so, how? If not, why would it be for kids? The pedos will get their rocks off somehow. Do we really want to make the harmless methods just as illegal as rape and molestation? Do I need the permission of the person photographed before I alter a photo of them?
Did they include the prison population in this?
They should have used Laughing Man logos. You blew it Google.
"Hello, beautiful. I'm a space lawyer." There's no way a tax attorney could compete with that.
Messenger TV will have vastly superior anti-Rickrolling capabilities. The service that the article describes is a demonstration of the feature that will be in Messenger TV!
That would give an incentive to reject all submissions. It puts money into the decision making process. Bad bad bad.
But consider that with, say, 5,000 of these laptops a teacher has the ability to write course material and disperse it to all of the laptops and beyond to the rest of the world. If the e-texts aren't currently available it would just take one ambitious teacher to solve the problem. Then consider how many teachers will want to produce their own teaching materials once they see how widely they could be used.
I don't see how archaic spelling and fragmented words are a problem. It not important that you know the word, only that you can spell it. If you correctly spell "ad-" and someone else correctly spells "vances" they'll get stitched together to form the correct word.
How does this thing handle capitalizations? What are the chances that two people will be too lazy to Capitalize the proper nouns and acronyms? Two matches to verify a word seems low. Crap I just checked it. I found a group with two capitalized words and entered them without caps. It accepted it.