I want to second this recommendation. And I'm glad someone beat me to it. It's such a quirky little museum. NSA had to buy the building since it was a vantage point for some sensitive installations, so they put it to excellent use. I'm in the area, so I've been there half a dozen times.
I think you've nailed it. Americans have the right to know the law, since this law can't define a social network in any manner beyond unreasonably broad terms, so as to restrict one's freedom of speech (i.e. loss of rights to upload to the internet), the law either cannot be known, or restricts free speech. This would be similar to rulings on other various obscenity laws that have been overturned by supreme court judicial review.
Could you imagine The Last Starfighter in this day and age? "We've been monitoring your progress in this thing you call a 'game', and we believe you may have what it takes to defend the galaxy!" "OMG Spyware! Screw you guys!"
In my nine years of regularly visiting Slashdot, I've found that the value of the discussions has been extremely topic dependent. Serious discussions of digital rights, or debunking of pseudoscience venture capitalism schemes are one thing, but nitpicking language on US rights in a topic concerning Chinese government actions is another.
The care that must be put forth in language here is entirely dependent on the level of desire the individual poster has to properly convey his or her point.
The bantering of nerds is amazing because saying something brilliant counts for a lot, but saying something funny or off-topic but baiting enough to hijack a thread counts for just as much; regardless of karma. I view at -1, my metric is thread activity.
I like to think of Slashdot as a bunch of nerds who think they're smarter than everyone else, including most of the other people on Slashdot; especially those with higher UIDs. Being one of those nerds, I don't see this as a good thing or a bad thing. I just enjoy my freedom to skip over the long threads of people correcting each other in order to feel better about themselves.
GPS, Compass, and Accelerometers combined are only a few bytes of data. Crunching the numbers to result in Forward/Left/Right fast enough to update once or twice a second doesn't sound too hard...
I wonder if the delay is caused by the fact that this article is hype that invokes concepts like a Terminator style overlay in hopes of being Slashdotted.
Imagine if you gave one of these keyboards to "Angry German Kid". Clippy shows up in tears, "I'm loading Unreal Tournament as fast as I can! What more do you want from me??"
TFA doesn't say they were "shocked", and doesn't go into any detail about how surprised/alarmed they were.
"'I saw a few jaws drop when he said that,' Manson told Threat Level.
'There was a lot of surprise,' Priest says. 'It really was a 'holy shit,' we didn't think about that [moment].'"
That's about it. It's not as though the reaction was paramount to "None of us feds knew about RFID security vulnerabilities until now! Oh the hubris! What fools we've been! We must update Obama on this immediately! WESA ALL GONNA DIE!!"
Lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
You tiny little lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
You precious little lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
Where are you? (deedee-doot-doot-doot-doot-da, deedee-deet!)"
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I want to second this recommendation. And I'm glad someone beat me to it. It's such a quirky little museum. NSA had to buy the building since it was a vantage point for some sensitive installations, so they put it to excellent use. I'm in the area, so I've been there half a dozen times.
ah, agreed :)
I think you've nailed it. Americans have the right to know the law, since this law can't define a social network in any manner beyond unreasonably broad terms, so as to restrict one's freedom of speech (i.e. loss of rights to upload to the internet), the law either cannot be known, or restricts free speech. This would be similar to rulings on other various obscenity laws that have been overturned by supreme court judicial review.
Maybe you should learn what humor is :)
Could you imagine The Last Starfighter in this day and age? "We've been monitoring your progress in this thing you call a 'game', and we believe you may have what it takes to defend the galaxy!" "OMG Spyware! Screw you guys!"
Run runner. There is no sanctuary!
In my nine years of regularly visiting Slashdot, I've found that the value of the discussions has been extremely topic dependent. Serious discussions of digital rights, or debunking of pseudoscience venture capitalism schemes are one thing, but nitpicking language on US rights in a topic concerning Chinese government actions is another.
The care that must be put forth in language here is entirely dependent on the level of desire the individual poster has to properly convey his or her point.
The bantering of nerds is amazing because saying something brilliant counts for a lot, but saying something funny or off-topic but baiting enough to hijack a thread counts for just as much; regardless of karma. I view at -1, my metric is thread activity.
I like to think of Slashdot as a bunch of nerds who think they're smarter than everyone else, including most of the other people on Slashdot; especially those with higher UIDs. Being one of those nerds, I don't see this as a good thing or a bad thing. I just enjoy my freedom to skip over the long threads of people correcting each other in order to feel better about themselves.
Geeks like terminator. Invoke it and be popular on teh slashdot.
GPS, Compass, and Accelerometers combined are only a few bytes of data. Crunching the numbers to result in Forward/Left/Right fast enough to update once or twice a second doesn't sound too hard...
I wonder if the delay is caused by the fact that this article is hype that invokes concepts like a Terminator style overlay in hopes of being Slashdotted.
Cyborgic death? Sounds Swedish.
Thundarbult of litening, ceiling cat is fritening me!
No, we have to thank ME, so I can derail this chain of unfunny recursive sarcasm!
I get a hit discussing "Which hot moms wear their teen's jeans!"
The little one is actually his wife.
No we don't. This is just a silly slashdot discussion board. We can be careful with language or not, it doesn't really effect anything.
Imagine if you gave one of these keyboards to "Angry German Kid". Clippy shows up in tears, "I'm loading Unreal Tournament as fast as I can! What more do you want from me??"
This is the most insightful comment I've read in quite awhile.
twwweeeeeeeeeee...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eeeeee...eet!
T-17? Jeez, you'd think eventually Skynet would manage to prevent John Conner's existence by sheer dumb luck!
Mod parent up.
TFA doesn't say they were "shocked", and doesn't go into any detail about how surprised/alarmed they were.
"'I saw a few jaws drop when he said that,' Manson told Threat Level.
'There was a lot of surprise,' Priest says. 'It really was a 'holy shit,' we didn't think about that [moment].'"
That's about it. It's not as though the reaction was paramount to "None of us feds knew about RFID security vulnerabilities until now! Oh the hubris! What fools we've been! We must update Obama on this immediately! WESA ALL GONNA DIE!!"
"I just... love scanning for lifeforms!
Lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
You tiny little lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
You precious little lifeforms! (doot-doot-doot-doot)
Where are you? (deedee-doot-doot-doot-doot-da, deedee-deet!)"
Wow, you caught me making a generalization. Don't you feel special!
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! ...oh wait.