They need to pay more attention to that crack problem and spend less money on frivolity like evoting systems. Evoting is a great idea but voter turnout has been less than stellar since I can remember so what are we really hoping acomplish here?
"Probably the best bet is to copy it from visiting aliens, if any ever bother to
I have a hard time thinking that a secies more advanced than us would give/sell their technology. Maybe if we stopped trying to kill each other and live in peace that could happen but I aint holding my breath.
The worst part is, they're right. As it turns out, the exact same kinds of privacy we want for the right reasons, the bad guys want for the wrong reasons.
So we as a nation have to decide what freedoms we are willing to sacrifice for our safety. We are having a hard time walking that line between freedom and oppression and I expect it will take a long time before things get back to normal. I'm happy that my daughter is too young to understand what's going on in the world. I guess ignorance is bliss but once you become aware of reality it's hard to go back to ignorance again.
That is of course until someone in washington decides it's a security risk because terrorists could use it to plan their attacks. You know that will happen.
My thoughts precisely but some people I've talked to don't even have any av protection so I guess something is better than nothing even if it hogs your resources.
Customer education is an issue with this one. I haven't talked to someone with that issue but we offer free Norton with internet service so there's no reason you can't protect yourself from some of the common threats. The thing that gets most people though is the drive by bots. People have to abandon the plug and play web mentality as that's what gets them in trouble. One person told me she got a pop up telling her that the computer was infected with 45 viruses. I'm like WTF?? but they fall for it all the time. Education is the only thing that can fix that problem.
The line between human and robot/artificial life form is getting thinner as the science progresses. That must have been a bitch of an operation though.
You have a very good point about that however it makes no sense for anyone to consider this app a security risk. The chance of anyone shooting a plane down as it takes off from an airport is minimal. If someone does get a surface to air missle you can be sure they're gonna shoot the first thing they get a lock on. At this point our enemies don't need to attack us anymore because they've got the country running scared and the spooks are chasing their tails for nothing. What's next? I went to bed on 9-11-01 and woke up to 1984 the next day. Orwell is laughing so hard his sides have split.
Because the craft made it so high and the fact that they put an Iphone inside it now becomes a threat to our spy staelites (read"we may not be able to spy on our own citizens")and the NSA has deemed it a security threat and removed the story from most major news outlets. Sheesh this country's gone to hell.
OMG what good does it do a terrorist if the plane is already in the air. Have we had any attacks on airplanes using a surface to air missile? If they wanted to attack a plane could they not just check the internet for departure and arrival times. Shit like this just illustrates how the terrorists have won because we spend too much time chasing our tails for stuff that's not important.
They already do. They get all the rights we do but with very few of
the consequences
Perhaps it's time for the blissfully ignorant people of the USA to step up and take back some of those rights. Oh wait I forgot.... we never do anything like this until we are pushed to the brink. Damn lazy society. At least we can't complain that the corporations are raping us....OH WAIT DAMN.
If you lived in that town you would see the downside. Since they are so small sometimes they have to rely on tickets as a major source of revenue. We have one of those near me and the only upside to this is that the town is so small that almost anyone from the area knows where he will be waiting. The state nailed the town for excessive ticketing recently and it's been relatively quiet since then.
It seems like a good idea, but having to tether could be a pain.
In a nutshell they just shot themselves in the foot. Unless they have some super cool software on that thing they had better stop trying to play catch up and innovate. They've already lost a lot of ground.
Corporations and PACs and Unions all are made up of people, so you're claiming that the constituent people have no rights simply because they have organized themselves in one of those functions
No he's saying that the entity they have organized themselves into does not have the same rights as the constituents of said entity. Your post has a very simplistic view of the facts.
I own both and I fail to see any major differences between the two other than the size and recent software enhancements. Most of the games look better but it still does pretty much the same stuff the Ipod touch does just bigger.
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They need to pay more attention to that crack problem and spend less money on frivolity like evoting systems. Evoting is a great idea but voter turnout has been less than stellar since I can remember so what are we really hoping acomplish here?
As if any of us are making a hobby out of hooking up bark controlled shotguns to our dogs.
Damn I've got to git me one of them. I love technology.
"Probably the best bet is to copy it from visiting aliens, if any ever bother to
I have a hard time thinking that a secies more advanced than us would give/sell their technology. Maybe if we stopped trying to kill each other and live in peace that could happen but I aint holding my breath.
So what you're saying is do you take the red pill or the blue one (obligatory Matrix reference).
Well I didn't say I used that crap I just commented that it was available for those who don't know better. Some protection is beter than none at all.
The worst part is, they're right. As it turns out, the exact same kinds of privacy we want for the right reasons, the bad guys want for the wrong reasons.
So we as a nation have to decide what freedoms we are willing to sacrifice for our safety. We are having a hard time walking that line between freedom and oppression and I expect it will take a long time before things get back to normal. I'm happy that my daughter is too young to understand what's going on in the world. I guess ignorance is bliss but once you become aware of reality it's hard to go back to ignorance again.
Somebody mod this guy up. I need more points.
A great day for liberty!
That is of course until someone in washington decides it's a security risk because terrorists could use it to plan their attacks. You know that will happen.
My thoughts precisely but some people I've talked to don't even have any av protection so I guess something is better than nothing even if it hogs your resources.
An email to the address they have on file would be much less creepy and more effective, IMO
I agree but not everyone uses Comcast email.
larva chewing at your subcutaneous layer of fat
Hmm sounds like fun. I've got to get it off somehow.....
Customer education is an issue with this one. I haven't talked to someone with that issue but we offer free Norton with internet service so there's no reason you can't protect yourself from some of the common threats. The thing that gets most people though is the drive by bots. People have to abandon the plug and play web mentality as that's what gets them in trouble. One person told me she got a pop up telling her that the computer was infected with 45 viruses. I'm like WTF?? but they fall for it all the time. Education is the only thing that can fix that problem.
The line between human and robot/artificial life form is getting thinner as the science progresses. That must have been a bitch of an operation though.
You have a very good point about that however it makes no sense for anyone to consider this app a security risk. The chance of anyone shooting a plane down as it takes off from an airport is minimal. If someone does get a surface to air missle you can be sure they're gonna shoot the first thing they get a lock on. At this point our enemies don't need to attack us anymore because they've got the country running scared and the spooks are chasing their tails for nothing. What's next? I went to bed on 9-11-01 and woke up to 1984 the next day. Orwell is laughing so hard his sides have split.
Because the craft made it so high and the fact that they put an Iphone inside it now becomes a threat to our spy staelites (read"we may not be able to spy on our own citizens")and the NSA has deemed it a security threat and removed the story from most major news outlets. Sheesh this country's gone to hell.
Somebody mod this up please. I wish the clowns in Washington thought like this
OMG what good does it do a terrorist if the plane is already in the air. Have we had any attacks on airplanes using a surface to air missile? If they wanted to attack a plane could they not just check the internet for departure and arrival times. Shit like this just illustrates how the terrorists have won because we spend too much time chasing our tails for stuff that's not important.
Why not just let corporations take over the government... Hi, welcome to 21st century America, I see you are new here...
LMFAO well spoke.
They already do. They get all the rights we do but with very few of the consequences
Perhaps it's time for the blissfully ignorant people of the USA to step up and take back some of those rights. Oh wait I forgot.... we never do anything like this until we are pushed to the brink. Damn lazy society. At least we can't complain that the corporations are raping us....OH WAIT DAMN.
If you lived in that town you would see the downside. Since they are so small sometimes they have to rely on tickets as a major source of revenue. We have one of those near me and the only upside to this is that the town is so small that almost anyone from the area knows where he will be waiting. The state nailed the town for excessive ticketing recently and it's been relatively quiet since then.
sometimes you just gotta take one for the team.
Oh I don't know about that. It seems obvious they have some sort of sports thing going on here. Seems like a good choice to me.
It seems like a good idea, but having to tether could be a pain.
In a nutshell they just shot themselves in the foot. Unless they have some super cool software on that thing they had better stop trying to play catch up and innovate. They've already lost a lot of ground.
Corporations and PACs and Unions all are made up of people, so you're claiming that the constituent people have no rights simply because they have organized themselves in one of those functions
No he's saying that the entity they have organized themselves into does not have the same rights as the constituents of said entity. Your post has a very simplistic view of the facts.
I own both and I fail to see any major differences between the two other than the size and recent software enhancements. Most of the games look better but it still does pretty much the same stuff the Ipod touch does just bigger.