I appreciate your post very much, but I'm also reasonably confident that I understand more about four dimensional objects on an enthusiast level than I do about electrons. That's a bit of a bummer.
See my comment to the parent. Half a dozen global vendors have already digitized and full-text indexed decades if not centuries of newspapers (depending on the importance and history of the paper). No matter how good OCR gets, it won't surpass the work already done by real humans doing data entry, transcription, and correcting OCR by hand. The value added by Google is potentially offering this incredibly expensive effort of preserving information for free.
Libraries around the world also pay large amounts of money to vendors that have already digitized AND full-text indexed decades if not centuries of newspapers. ProQuest, Gale, EBSCO, Infotrac, Newsbank... I expect those vendors made a bit of a stink that Google was trying to put them out of business.
Old hardware lying around?? My XBOX is bigger than my cat. It's good at propping up chairs that are missing a leg. I use the controllers as doorstops. If I switch it back to being a media center, that means I have to go buy a new crate to hold my old media.:p
(But I love that these utils are still going strong. Good on ya.)
I have yet to see that Wikipedia. I go to the one with people collaborating on making articles better. Yes, occasionally a jerk comes along and tries to push a particular point of view, but they generally come to their senses quickly or just go away, often after being blocked from editing.
Purely in the name of sober second thought, you might want to consider - just for a moment - that you're already on the clique side looking out. I'm certainly not saying you are, but I think it is valid advice to anyone that says they don't see a particular societal problem, to also look in the mirror.
and I'm still pretty sure that facebook has still somehow probably derived all of my info down to my underwear color, porn preferences, and whether I ate lucky charms for dinner last night, and sold that to advertisers.
If you start seeing sidebar ads for Tin Foil Hats, THAT'S when I'd be concerned.
While what you say is true, there is still value in being reminded that such evils still exist in the world, rather than becoming bored and sweeping them under the rug.
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." ~ Justice Louis Brandeis, 1914
Cell phones don't work if the towers don't know where you are. Location tracking is part of the spec.
Let's not forget that even though 911 services aren't guaranteed to know your cell location, most people agree it's pretty important tech to standardize. The number of people in North America cancelling their land lines defeats the entire purpose of 911's emergency response methods. Because you can't always blurt out your address, and accidents don't always happen near a house. Google cannot really justify any purpose other than "products/services". Whereas your cell provider can legitimately show evidence that it can save lives.
These are probably naive questions: Is it necessary to provide a warrant to obtain location data from cell providers? Do cell providers stand to make money in the same way as Google by selling your location?
By the way, I just happened to use the same login and password on the PSN as I did for my GMail account.
Kudos to you for admitting that publicly, I would think being that dumb was a bannable offense on/. No offense (honest!), but clearly you now realize how bad an idea reusing login/passwords are. A good cautionary tale.
(And yes I've done it in the past, but not for a long time now, nor with anything that has personal information.) Get a password manager, or a diary if you think it's less likely someone will break into your house versus swipe your double-encrypted data from DropBox.
'A value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton.'
I freaking love mathematicians. Everything has a proof when you can't actually prove it, coming or going.
Fire is antiquated, wasting precious oxygen and leaves a carbon footprint. Electricity is something that anyone with enough CDs to bother erasing is already paying for.;)
I genuinely hope this progresses to the logical extreme of "buy multiplayer direct from us", because then I won't have to subsidize/pay for something I don't use. And the publishers will realise how lousy the carbon copy multiplayer side of their tired franchise is when it's reviewed separately, and stop stapling it on to a watered down campaign just to keep a game in people's disc trays until the DLC comes out or the servers shut down. I've never played a SOCOM game in my life, and I bet that I'm not missing out on much compared to say, the very first chapter of Dead Space 2?
I would have bought Starcraft 2 on launch day if Blizzard sold a $30 version without multiplayer (I heard they do have separate digital SKUs in Korea). Those cyborgs can have their battle.net, I want the story and maybe I'll feel like playing it again in a year's time. $30 would be worth that for me, I don't want to pirate it, I want some god damn consumer choice! (andfirstsaledoctrinethanksverymuch)
Seems to me Bungie has a good thing going. Once in a while I think about getting a Bungie Pro account because, y'know, lookit-mah-space-lazorz, but then I get distracted by other games for 6 or 7 months. I play games like other people read novels. Multiplayer shooters are the trashy romance side of the industry, a cash cow with puerile thrills and little substance.
Slashdot Mirror
Not so simple! It's from Japan! 18 is too old to be cute!
Because anyone 18+ should not need Parental Guidance.
Exactly. There are nanny-state laws for that.
"Stores can user information about your Doritos purchases to..."
I'm starting to think you all do this on purposes.
They cleaned it up some. The original submission was texted: "OMG /. peeps!! stores kin useur info bout ur doritos buyin..."
I appreciate your post very much, but I'm also reasonably confident that I understand more about four dimensional objects on an enthusiast level than I do about electrons. That's a bit of a bummer.
See my comment to the parent. Half a dozen global vendors have already digitized and full-text indexed decades if not centuries of newspapers (depending on the importance and history of the paper). No matter how good OCR gets, it won't surpass the work already done by real humans doing data entry, transcription, and correcting OCR by hand.
The value added by Google is potentially offering this incredibly expensive effort of preserving information for free.
Libraries around the world also pay large amounts of money to vendors that have already digitized AND full-text indexed decades if not centuries of newspapers.
ProQuest, Gale, EBSCO, Infotrac, Newsbank...
I expect those vendors made a bit of a stink that Google was trying to put them out of business.
Old hardware lying around?? :p
My XBOX is bigger than my cat. It's good at propping up chairs that are missing a leg. I use the controllers as doorstops.
If I switch it back to being a media center, that means I have to go buy a new crate to hold my old media.
(But I love that these utils are still going strong. Good on ya.)
I have yet to see that Wikipedia. I go to the one with people collaborating on making articles better. Yes, occasionally a jerk comes along and tries to push a particular point of view, but they generally come to their senses quickly or just go away, often after being blocked from editing.
Purely in the name of sober second thought, you might want to consider - just for a moment - that you're already on the clique side looking out. I'm certainly not saying you are, but I think it is valid advice to anyone that says they don't see a particular societal problem, to also look in the mirror.
and I'm still pretty sure that facebook has still somehow probably derived all of my info down to my underwear color, porn preferences, and whether I ate lucky charms for dinner last night, and sold that to advertisers.
If you start seeing sidebar ads for Tin Foil Hats, THAT'S when I'd be concerned.
While what you say is true, there is still value in being reminded that such evils still exist in the world, rather than becoming bored and sweeping them under the rug.
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
~ Justice Louis Brandeis, 1914
to make a self-righteous post about how you don't use Windows, and anyone who does is stupid.
The lions. I beard them.
What you do is get a cloud. Just connect all your machines and networks and cables to the cloud and you will be aaaaalright.
Dat sounds like you been 'joying da cloud a bit too much, brah. Maybe turn on a fan or what now.
One love mon.
Cell phones don't work if the towers don't know where you are. Location tracking is part of the spec.
Let's not forget that even though 911 services aren't guaranteed to know your cell location, most people agree it's pretty important tech to standardize. The number of people in North America cancelling their land lines defeats the entire purpose of 911's emergency response methods. Because you can't always blurt out your address, and accidents don't always happen near a house.
Google cannot really justify any purpose other than "products/services". Whereas your cell provider can legitimately show evidence that it can save lives.
These are probably naive questions:
Is it necessary to provide a warrant to obtain location data from cell providers?
Do cell providers stand to make money in the same way as Google by selling your location?
A little late with that joke. See the last story.
By the way, I just happened to use the same login and password on the PSN as I did for my GMail account.
Kudos to you for admitting that publicly, I would think being that dumb was a bannable offense on /.
No offense (honest!), but clearly you now realize how bad an idea reusing login/passwords are.
A good cautionary tale.
(And yes I've done it in the past, but not for a long time now, nor with anything that has personal information.)
Get a password manager, or a diary if you think it's less likely someone will break into your house versus swipe your double-encrypted data from DropBox.
'A value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton.'
I freaking love mathematicians. Everything has a proof when you can't actually prove it, coming or going.
Not really. Carnegie Mellon is the one that put the first Coke machine on the internet.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
And there are more (old page)
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/coke.html
Great. Send a friend a soda. When will the social networking hoopla simply die?
I'm sure it will fall flat now that the lid's off.
when a large 2-dimensional plane parallel to the sensor is detected?
You mean like a wall?
Yes, to photograph a wall authentically you'd need to purchase a special 2D camera with no depth of field.
How did 150,000 volts not explode a 9V battery?
Fire is antiquated, wasting precious oxygen and leaves a carbon footprint. Electricity is something that anyone with enough CDs to bother erasing is already paying for. ;)
But numbers don't lie — or exaggerate.
That's a lie — and an exaggeration.
Lies. Damned lies. And statistics.
and what is the point of rereleasing old movies on Blu-Ray - like theres gonna be more shades of black and white?
HDR Citizen Kane sounds pretty marketable, actually.
I genuinely hope this progresses to the logical extreme of "buy multiplayer direct from us", because then I won't have to subsidize/pay for something I don't use. And the publishers will realise how lousy the carbon copy multiplayer side of their tired franchise is when it's reviewed separately, and stop stapling it on to a watered down campaign just to keep a game in people's disc trays until the DLC comes out or the servers shut down. I've never played a SOCOM game in my life, and I bet that I'm not missing out on much compared to say, the very first chapter of Dead Space 2?
I would have bought Starcraft 2 on launch day if Blizzard sold a $30 version without multiplayer (I heard they do have separate digital SKUs in Korea). Those cyborgs can have their battle.net, I want the story and maybe I'll feel like playing it again in a year's time. $30 would be worth that for me, I don't want to pirate it, I want some god damn consumer choice! (andfirstsaledoctrinethanksverymuch)
Seems to me Bungie has a good thing going. Once in a while I think about getting a Bungie Pro account because, y'know, lookit-mah-space-lazorz, but then I get distracted by other games for 6 or 7 months. I play games like other people read novels. Multiplayer shooters are the trashy romance side of the industry, a cash cow with puerile thrills and little substance.
If you support the shit out of a multinational corporation, eventually you'll be covered in it.