Our whole lives are spent dealing with people and their reactions to what is 'acceptable' and taking the risk that what you try and accomplish is 'unexpected'. Wear long hair in the executive world? Get fired. Dye your hair green in high school? Get teased. Run down a street naked? Get arrested.
Humans are exceptional at detecting differences, its part of our nature, intellectually - we integrate similar concepts and differentiate between different ones. Our brains pick out differences. Thats why profiling at airports actually works.
Its nice to see someone publish something about this, but its hardly insightful.
I know we're all supposed to be lubed up over "Web 2.0" and "blogging" and "social networking", but for the Internet users out there who ARENT 15 year old emo kids, how is "the semantic web" relevant?
/yes, there's a whiff of irony about posting this to Slashdot //Slashdot = old Usenet ///rn FTW
So this is like when Ford decided that if each Pinto that exploded cost them less than 11 million USD in lawsuits, it was still worth producing the cars?
And someone will buy this, then load Windows Vista on it, where all its uber spiffy performance will be limited by a broken USB driver, or the fact that their DSL link is only 768kbps, or they chintzed out and bought a 5400 rpm drive.
...as people shift more and more of their online life to web 2.0, they will find that less and less of their files...
I think you find that having a real like and an "online life" are orthogonal, and as such, people who matter are precisely the ones NOT impacted by the storage problem at Google, or the dilemma of "dude, where's my data?"
Just like leaving meat out in the sun "produces" flies? Didn't we sort all this out back in the 17th century or whatever? Oh wait, its CNN, that paragon of quality journalism.
"I suppose we can say he stole a song..." (emphasis mine)
Um, Jennifer, if you're the HEAD of litigation for Sony, I think that your legal argument should be more than saying "Your Honor, I suppose we can say I win my case".
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Our whole lives are spent dealing with people and their reactions to what is 'acceptable' and taking the risk that what you try and accomplish is 'unexpected'. Wear long hair in the executive world? Get fired. Dye your hair green in high school? Get teased. Run down a street naked? Get arrested.
Humans are exceptional at detecting differences, its part of our nature, intellectually - we integrate similar concepts and differentiate between different ones. Our brains pick out differences. Thats why profiling at airports actually works.
Its nice to see someone publish something about this, but its hardly insightful.
Anyone else read that "OpenFacial attacks Socialbook"? Some sort of weird Japanese geek porn?
The more you tighten your DRM^wgrip, the more content^wsystems will slip through your fingers.
There's a lovely tropical island south of Florida where you might prefer living.
Congratulations all you non-voters who have kept these people in power for so long. Now that everyone is safe, don't you feel much better?
How about you don't live in an apartment, or if you do, suffer the consequences instead of being a whiny bitch?
And all it takes for World Peace is for people to be "rational".
The kind of order you're seeking to impose... its impossible.
>look navel
You cannot do that here.
>gaze navel
You gaze at your navel \|/-\|/-\|/-
You succeed. You are a douchebag!
so you burn more corn feeding the cows... its not like they're a perpetual motion machine.
So this is like when Ford decided that if each Pinto that exploded cost them less than 11 million USD in lawsuits, it was still worth producing the cars?
Plenty of liquid water out there, just not at temperatures and pressures we care to live at.
Perhaps warranted, as it appears the Russians were the douchebags on this one.
Except not pay protection^Wtaxes. Go Cisco.
Taco, don't you just use the free Mac laptop you got from Apple for shamelessly pimping them?
And someone will buy this, then load Windows Vista on it, where all its uber spiffy performance will be limited by a broken USB driver, or the fact that their DSL link is only 768kbps, or they chintzed out and bought a 5400 rpm drive.
...as people shift more and more of their online life to web 2.0, they will find that less and less of their files...
I think you find that having a real like and an "online life" are orthogonal, and as such, people who matter are precisely the ones NOT impacted by the storage problem at Google, or the dilemma of "dude, where's my data?"
Why not marry your lawnmower? Ladies, how about that washing machine, leaning against it during the spin cycle is gratifying, isn't it?
This is not "I, Robot", there are no positronic brains. Robots are gadgets.
"He who casts the votes decides nothing, he who counts the votes decides everything.... or not."
Just like leaving meat out in the sun "produces" flies? Didn't we sort all this out back in the 17th century or whatever? Oh wait, its CNN, that paragon of quality journalism.
Why are you such a douche?
Creatures with faster metabolism and greater energy resources are able to act and evolve faster.
News at 11.
So you're going to trust someone who has already pirated at least 1 copy in the past, that they'll stop doing it?
"I suppose we can say he stole a song..." (emphasis mine)
Um, Jennifer, if you're the HEAD of litigation for Sony, I think that your legal argument should be more than saying "Your Honor, I suppose we can say I win my case".
Is this one of those GGG websites? I think Websense will probably start blocking this stuff.