I don't see how this is feasible by any means. There is so much ambiguity involved... For example: Does looking at porn online and not clearing my cookies or browser data constitute as porn? If the porn is in a temp folder does that count because as soon as I turn of my computer then the will no longer be there. If I delete the porn it's still recoverable with some tools... does that count?
I can also see this being bad for geeks. What happens if they doubt me and force me to turn on my laptop and it boots to a CLI? They'd probably confiscate it and tear it appart to find out what sort of commy-porn-smuggeling-system I'm using...
What if I have the porn stored in a vm on my machine? Do those guys even know what a vm is? What if I have a totally unsuspecting laptop and I'm actually trying to smuggle porn by store in on a disc partition and clearing the disc information from fstab (or windows equivalent so as not to be suspicious)?
There is so much grey area, and like so many of you said this will be a giant waste of time. I believe the most this will do is infuriate many of us who use unfamiliar systems and get them confiscated because of it.
I recently moved hemispheres and all the dvd's I own wont work on my fresh home theater system. Only option was to buy them again or download them and burn them myself. I'm sure you can guess what I did.
If you buy a movie it's yours to keep and watch... unless u move... then the mpaa says u can't watch it anymore:/
Yea, is it just me, or does microsoft seem to constantly be getting caught for stealing code? It's almost as if they could care less what the license says and just include it in their products because if they get caught they can afford to settle the dispute, but if they don't they get away with stealing and making a profit.
perhaps there should be someone (not a MS employee) hired to review code to see just how many infringements their are...
ok ok, I fold. This conversation is quickly going the route of: should the government be able to invade our privacy but offer greater protection from threats... It's a long conversation.
Haha, I thought the goal was to prevent death, I mean currently the person who drops dead is our sensor, and these 1$ things are meant to replace the poor dead person.
However, I do see your point. With more alarms comes more validity. But the amount of the phones that will have this feature and with harmful chemicals and groups of 20-30 people being around them, a rare occurrence (at least I assume), I can't really see these sensors being really more than a joke in all cases but the most extreme... and even in those cases (aside from chemical warfar) those people should have sensors already.
I can imagine the many ways to abuse this feature:
Your buddies and you are drinking, someone farts... phone says it's deadly
There's a million ways this can be used with house hold chemicals brought to school to get out of a test
You notice a good looking girl (or guy) on the street about to go into a store. You go over to her, and say: "WAIT!, my phone says this place is deadly... How bout you come to lunch with me, it's much safer."
All joking aside, how many people are going to take these threats from a 1$ sensor seriously?
I hope this is the case, as I can barely get steam to work properly under wine. Steam being available on OSX is a huge move to being available for Linux. The majority of the work that needed to be done was changing all the DX calls to OpenGL, now that that's done it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a Linux version of some of the more popular games.
Apple's up and coming iPhone will be able to easily compete with the Bold. Hell, with the 25 watt microwave transmitter they are installing it should be able to heat a bowl of noodles in 6 hours. Sadly the battery will only last 5-10 minutes on "iNuk" setting, but Jobs is confident that this will lead to further gains in the smart phone market.
It's bad enough that overzealous law systems stop school from doing their job, but now it looks like schools feel they have the right to invade students privacy (perhaps to save face on a possible lawsuit??)... ah the irony of an institution that teaches the constitution and doesn't feel bound by it. No matter how "good" the intentions of the school, this should NEVER be allowed.
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Only 5%?
Don't tell me you guys didn't see this coming...
hahaha are you serious... I got this one guys. Money.
lol jp guys, I'm a dude, come on this is /. ffs :P
that may be relevant if I was a male...
Given my family history... is there a girl for me?
I don't see how this is feasible by any means. There is so much ambiguity involved... For example: Does looking at porn online and not clearing my cookies or browser data constitute as porn? If the porn is in a temp folder does that count because as soon as I turn of my computer then the will no longer be there. If I delete the porn it's still recoverable with some tools... does that count?
I can also see this being bad for geeks. What happens if they doubt me and force me to turn on my laptop and it boots to a CLI? They'd probably confiscate it and tear it appart to find out what sort of commy-porn-smuggeling-system I'm using...
What if I have the porn stored in a vm on my machine? Do those guys even know what a vm is? What if I have a totally unsuspecting laptop and I'm actually trying to smuggle porn by store in on a disc partition and clearing the disc information from fstab (or windows equivalent so as not to be suspicious)?
There is so much grey area, and like so many of you said this will be a giant waste of time. I believe the most this will do is infuriate many of us who use unfamiliar systems and get them confiscated because of it.
doesn't this happen all the time? When there isn't a market for something then the company creates one and then profits
I recently moved hemispheres and all the dvd's I own wont work on my fresh home theater system. Only option was to buy them again or download them and burn them myself. I'm sure you can guess what I did.
:/
If you buy a movie it's yours to keep and watch... unless u move... then the mpaa says u can't watch it anymore
Yea, is it just me, or does microsoft seem to constantly be getting caught for stealing code? It's almost as if they could care less what the license says and just include it in their products because if they get caught they can afford to settle the dispute, but if they don't they get away with stealing and making a profit.
perhaps there should be someone (not a MS employee) hired to review code to see just how many infringements their are...
Que up those "in soviet Russia..." jokes
Golden Poo Award needs to be splattered over the Consumerist's face.
That would require making the award at least semi-molten, killing or badly injuring the "Consumerist's" ... tho that might be what ur going for.
that would require a very long controller extension, possibly binoculars, and a social life.
Justice is about harmony, not law and order.
Mod me down for off topic, but there is something so true about that statement that I can't get it out of my head.
ich ein berliner
ok ok, I fold. This conversation is quickly going the route of: should the government be able to invade our privacy but offer greater protection from threats... It's a long conversation.
:D
That was a good pic up line tho...
Haha, I thought the goal was to prevent death, I mean currently the person who drops dead is our sensor, and these 1$ things are meant to replace the poor dead person.
However, I do see your point. With more alarms comes more validity. But the amount of the phones that will have this feature and with harmful chemicals and groups of 20-30 people being around them, a rare occurrence (at least I assume), I can't really see these sensors being really more than a joke in all cases but the most extreme... and even in those cases (aside from chemical warfar) those people should have sensors already.
I can imagine the many ways to abuse this feature:
Your buddies and you are drinking, someone farts... phone says it's deadly
There's a million ways this can be used with house hold chemicals brought to school to get out of a test
You notice a good looking girl (or guy) on the street about to go into a store. You go over to her, and say: "WAIT!, my phone says this place is deadly... How bout you come to lunch with me, it's much safer."
All joking aside, how many people are going to take these threats from a 1$ sensor seriously?
perhaps because china accounts for more than a fifth of the world population...
I fucking hate flies no matter how interesting the name sounds!
-actually almost double, at 24 million 12 * 2 anybody? Well it's got to be almost 24 at least...
I hope this is the case, as I can barely get steam to work properly under wine. Steam being available on OSX is a huge move to being available for Linux. The majority of the work that needed to be done was changing all the DX calls to OpenGL, now that that's done it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a Linux version of some of the more popular games.
Apple's up and coming iPhone will be able to easily compete with the Bold. Hell, with the 25 watt microwave transmitter they are installing it should be able to heat a bowl of noodles in 6 hours. Sadly the battery will only last 5-10 minutes on "iNuk" setting, but Jobs is confident that this will lead to further gains in the smart phone market.
It's bad enough that overzealous law systems stop school from doing their job, but now it looks like schools feel they have the right to invade students privacy (perhaps to save face on a possible lawsuit??)... ah the irony of an institution that teaches the constitution and doesn't feel bound by it. No matter how "good" the intentions of the school, this should NEVER be allowed.
It's been my dream to go this way.