I never said it isn't technically possible. Just that we are nowhere near the point where the government (or anyone) can essentially monitor and record all data on the internet like he implies. They want to, and I'm sure they would like to scare people into thinking they do, but they are still very much limited to targeted monitoring, or requesting information through official channels, such as Google or Facebook warrants.
I'm sure what he's saying is true, in a very broad sense. Cell phone conversations, texts, and major/popular version of things like video chat (skype), IM (yahoo messenger), and general social media (facebook, twitter, etc).
This guy seems to be implying that the government has some kind of man-in-middle technology that intercepts and records *all* traffic, which simply isn't true. Unfortunately, either he or the news agency is trying to paint the whole thing as just that.
A better question is what could do once we detect them. Those things travel quite fast, and something tells me the ISS isn't nimble enough to start dodging small rocks in space.
I think tablets are fine for the niche they fill. They make great little consumption devices that are somewhat inexpensive, and handle web content just fine. I have a few sitting around at home that we can just pick up and check email with, or my kid can go watch netflix on the bed, or whatever. They certainly aren't going to be replaces computers for anyone but the most casual of consumers, but they do fill a technology gap very nicely.
One thing that he hints at, which I agree with, is that tablets aren't going to change too much in the next five years. Overall sales will level off once everyone has one, and I do suspect the wifi-only versions will be the primary sellers after that. Prices will probably settle in the 100-200 dollar range, at most, with plenty of $50 options. They'll basically take the same route that MP3 players took 10 years ago.
What is preventing us from wiring sensors like this into our existing neural pathways? Is it just a matter of the scale being too small? It just seems like, the human body is already full-wired for something like this.
I think there is a big difference here, though. World Wildlife Federation is an existing entity, whereas this is just a collection of small and fairly insignificant governments with very little political clout. I also think that the wrestling people probably figured it was a battle not worth fighting, especially after having gone through the whole WCW>WWF merger. At that point, changing the name again wasn't really a big deal.
Besides, it gave them an excuse to use macho advertising like "WWE: Get the F out!"
I have a feeling each that only the "sequels" will have a shared story. The off-year movies, which apparently will focus on side characters, will most likely just be single shots for easy money. LotR worked as a single shoot because it was basically just one big movie edited into three parts.
Their news section is a joke. Their highlighted news is nothing but crap about reality television, celebrity culture, and video recaps about other videos. If you see a story about, say, a video that went viral, you have to watch a video just to see clips of the video in question (not to mention sit through ads first) while listening to not-quite-funny commentary by the video host. You're better off just looking the video up yourself.
And the sports section? Just go look up "Chris Chase Yahoo" to get an idea of their in-house journalism capabilities. They finally fired him, but his legacy lives on through other poorly-written articles about weird or just plain boring stuff. The articles that are fairly decent, are usually just AP reprints. To their credit, however, there has been an increase in certain essay-style articles that show up by respected industry journalists now and then, so I'll give props for that.
The "best" part of their news, though, is the comment section. It's like 90% of the people who read and post there are right-wing Fox News types.
So no, I can't say I'd consider Yahoo! news to be all that great.
The biggest problem with politics is that the very vocal participants are always the extremists, one way or another. Most people really don't care all that much about either party aside from one or two specific positions, like gun control or taxes or abortion rights. It's kind of like how you can't find many libertarians that are actually libertarian across a wide range of topics outside of "small government." Or like how someone will be a hardcore republican simply because they want to own firearms.
Our political choices have way more to do with fighting *against* something than *for* something, which is sad considering this is supposed to be the land of liberty and justice for all.
Many many networks that I've dealt with have essentially blacklisted Chinese IP ranges, so it makes sense for anyone looking to setup a malware site to use a "legit" hosting service. They don't care if it stays up for more than a few months, in most cases.
What would be much more interesting is data on *who* is registering and setting up all of these sites, rather than where.
U.S. labor is expensive, so teaching every kid here programming at young ages will do very little for their job prospects (companies will still prefer H1-B's). It's one thing to talk about how our education system is falling behind, etc, etc, and another thing entirely for the country -- and the companies within it -- to actually hire American workers when they can get them cheaper overseas. If not outsource entirely.
It will change once the world economy grinds to a super-monopoly, where all major industries around the world are dominated by one or two players, much like the ISP situation in most of the U.S.. Right now, companies aren't complaining because they have the golden egg laying goose that is China, but even that plan is starting to unravel due to China having such a huge disparity between the rich and poor, with no real middle class to speak of.
Once that happens, either laws like DMCA and IP will have to be scrapped just so growth can continue, or the world economy will contract back into more regional entities like they were 20 years ago; connected but independent. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next revolution in internet connectivity revolve around a method for encrypting or limiting traffic to a physical region of the world, in an effort to segment things.
Wizards of the Coast found that it didn't really have a negative impact at all when they went full steam with Magic: Online. Card sales stayed the same, and the online game is doing very well. Identical rules, cards, and tourny's, although the digital release dates are a few weeks behind the physical release dates.
TLDR: I don't think this will impact card sales any, especially since the games aren't even using the same rules.
They've been limited to 400 feet and within site of the operator for a long time now. If this truly is an RC aircraft, then it's clearly well beyond that established rule, considering it was spotted at nearly 2,000 feet. The operator is an idiot, "plane" and simple.
has nothing to do with working from home. They need to get rid of a bunch of employees and this gives them a way of doing so without actually having a reason to fire them. They know a certain percentage won't be able to work locally, and will have to "voluntarily" quit.
A lot of people here seem to be making this out to some kind of grand conspiracy, when it's not. Evidence will be submitted and reviewed by all involved parties if and when a trial actually happens. Right now, there is no trial set because he's not even in the U.S.. NZ isn't the country holding the trial, so for people to think they deserve to have access to all of the information (at least publicly since they very well could have been given access behind closed doors) is rather silly. Unless NZ had reason to believe that Kim would get executed for his crimes or something crazy like that, it's not really their place to try and determine guilt before processing an extradition request.
There's a reason criminals try and avoid countries with U.S. extradition treaties in the first place. While Kim may or may not prove to be a criminal, he knew damn well that he wasn't making his fortune legitimately. His life history is basically one big string of exploitation schemes.
They're about as innovative as Hollywood is creative. The problem is that all the good gaming studios out there get bought out by one of the 3 large publishers, essentially forced to make yearly installments of whatever IP they created. To compound the problem, they have been targeting consoles rather than PC's, which means the actual hardware and specs in use are 10 years old.
The game industry is mirroring Hollywood in more ways than budgets. We have 90% of the content being released by just a few very large studios, who seem averse to anything that isn't a sequel or a remake. What really sucks is that we spent the last 20 years trying to improve the gaming experience enough to really get players immersed in the game, only to have the whole concept of immersion take a back seat to shareholder earnings.
In hindsight, it's no wonder the gaming industry has been so paranoid about piracy; I think they've purposefully been using the Hollywood model for inspiration.
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I never said it isn't technically possible. Just that we are nowhere near the point where the government (or anyone) can essentially monitor and record all data on the internet like he implies. They want to, and I'm sure they would like to scare people into thinking they do, but they are still very much limited to targeted monitoring, or requesting information through official channels, such as Google or Facebook warrants.
I'm sure what he's saying is true, in a very broad sense. Cell phone conversations, texts, and major/popular version of things like video chat (skype), IM (yahoo messenger), and general social media (facebook, twitter, etc).
This guy seems to be implying that the government has some kind of man-in-middle technology that intercepts and records *all* traffic, which simply isn't true. Unfortunately, either he or the news agency is trying to paint the whole thing as just that.
Something tells me we're not going to have an hour of advanced notice on a small baseball-sized object traveling 25,000 mph towards us.
A better question is what could do once we detect them. Those things travel quite fast, and something tells me the ISS isn't nimble enough to start dodging small rocks in space.
I think tablets are fine for the niche they fill. They make great little consumption devices that are somewhat inexpensive, and handle web content just fine. I have a few sitting around at home that we can just pick up and check email with, or my kid can go watch netflix on the bed, or whatever. They certainly aren't going to be replaces computers for anyone but the most casual of consumers, but they do fill a technology gap very nicely.
One thing that he hints at, which I agree with, is that tablets aren't going to change too much in the next five years. Overall sales will level off once everyone has one, and I do suspect the wifi-only versions will be the primary sellers after that. Prices will probably settle in the 100-200 dollar range, at most, with plenty of $50 options. They'll basically take the same route that MP3 players took 10 years ago.
What is preventing us from wiring sensors like this into our existing neural pathways? Is it just a matter of the scale being too small? It just seems like, the human body is already full-wired for something like this.
I think there is a big difference here, though. World Wildlife Federation is an existing entity, whereas this is just a collection of small and fairly insignificant governments with very little political clout. I also think that the wrestling people probably figured it was a battle not worth fighting, especially after having gone through the whole WCW>WWF merger. At that point, changing the name again wasn't really a big deal.
Besides, it gave them an excuse to use macho advertising like "WWE: Get the F out!"
Which you have to admit is pretty clever...
There's a yo dawg joke in there somewhere...
AOL tried doing this with "keywords" without much success.
I have a feeling each that only the "sequels" will have a shared story. The off-year movies, which apparently will focus on side characters, will most likely just be single shots for easy money. LotR worked as a single shoot because it was basically just one big movie edited into three parts.
We're going to have some real Star Wars fatigue.
Their news section is a joke. Their highlighted news is nothing but crap about reality television, celebrity culture, and video recaps about other videos. If you see a story about, say, a video that went viral, you have to watch a video just to see clips of the video in question (not to mention sit through ads first) while listening to not-quite-funny commentary by the video host. You're better off just looking the video up yourself.
And the sports section? Just go look up "Chris Chase Yahoo" to get an idea of their in-house journalism capabilities. They finally fired him, but his legacy lives on through other poorly-written articles about weird or just plain boring stuff. The articles that are fairly decent, are usually just AP reprints. To their credit, however, there has been an increase in certain essay-style articles that show up by respected industry journalists now and then, so I'll give props for that.
The "best" part of their news, though, is the comment section. It's like 90% of the people who read and post there are right-wing Fox News types.
So no, I can't say I'd consider Yahoo! news to be all that great.
OK, but how does that have anything to do with DX12 not coming out?
What exactly does "top quality game bundles registered to the serial number of the card" mean? Have I missed something else in this conversation?
The biggest problem with politics is that the very vocal participants are always the extremists, one way or another. Most people really don't care all that much about either party aside from one or two specific positions, like gun control or taxes or abortion rights. It's kind of like how you can't find many libertarians that are actually libertarian across a wide range of topics outside of "small government." Or like how someone will be a hardcore republican simply because they want to own firearms.
Our political choices have way more to do with fighting *against* something than *for* something, which is sad considering this is supposed to be the land of liberty and justice for all.
They can't even see the missile through all that smog.
Many many networks that I've dealt with have essentially blacklisted Chinese IP ranges, so it makes sense for anyone looking to setup a malware site to use a "legit" hosting service. They don't care if it stays up for more than a few months, in most cases.
What would be much more interesting is data on *who* is registering and setting up all of these sites, rather than where.
U.S. labor is expensive, so teaching every kid here programming at young ages will do very little for their job prospects (companies will still prefer H1-B's). It's one thing to talk about how our education system is falling behind, etc, etc, and another thing entirely for the country -- and the companies within it -- to actually hire American workers when they can get them cheaper overseas. If not outsource entirely.
It will change once the world economy grinds to a super-monopoly, where all major industries around the world are dominated by one or two players, much like the ISP situation in most of the U.S.. Right now, companies aren't complaining because they have the golden egg laying goose that is China, but even that plan is starting to unravel due to China having such a huge disparity between the rich and poor, with no real middle class to speak of.
Once that happens, either laws like DMCA and IP will have to be scrapped just so growth can continue, or the world economy will contract back into more regional entities like they were 20 years ago; connected but independent. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next revolution in internet connectivity revolve around a method for encrypting or limiting traffic to a physical region of the world, in an effort to segment things.
Wizards of the Coast found that it didn't really have a negative impact at all when they went full steam with Magic: Online. Card sales stayed the same, and the online game is doing very well. Identical rules, cards, and tourny's, although the digital release dates are a few weeks behind the physical release dates.
TLDR: I don't think this will impact card sales any, especially since the games aren't even using the same rules.
And has very little to do with Obama. We pretty much signed over a lot of our freedoms after 9/11, all in the name of security.
They've been limited to 400 feet and within site of the operator for a long time now. If this truly is an RC aircraft, then it's clearly well beyond that established rule, considering it was spotted at nearly 2,000 feet. The operator is an idiot, "plane" and simple.
has nothing to do with working from home. They need to get rid of a bunch of employees and this gives them a way of doing so without actually having a reason to fire them. They know a certain percentage won't be able to work locally, and will have to "voluntarily" quit.
A lot of people here seem to be making this out to some kind of grand conspiracy, when it's not. Evidence will be submitted and reviewed by all involved parties if and when a trial actually happens. Right now, there is no trial set because he's not even in the U.S.. NZ isn't the country holding the trial, so for people to think they deserve to have access to all of the information (at least publicly since they very well could have been given access behind closed doors) is rather silly. Unless NZ had reason to believe that Kim would get executed for his crimes or something crazy like that, it's not really their place to try and determine guilt before processing an extradition request.
There's a reason criminals try and avoid countries with U.S. extradition treaties in the first place. While Kim may or may not prove to be a criminal, he knew damn well that he wasn't making his fortune legitimately. His life history is basically one big string of exploitation schemes.
They're about as innovative as Hollywood is creative. The problem is that all the good gaming studios out there get bought out by one of the 3 large publishers, essentially forced to make yearly installments of whatever IP they created. To compound the problem, they have been targeting consoles rather than PC's, which means the actual hardware and specs in use are 10 years old.
The game industry is mirroring Hollywood in more ways than budgets. We have 90% of the content being released by just a few very large studios, who seem averse to anything that isn't a sequel or a remake. What really sucks is that we spent the last 20 years trying to improve the gaming experience enough to really get players immersed in the game, only to have the whole concept of immersion take a back seat to shareholder earnings.
In hindsight, it's no wonder the gaming industry has been so paranoid about piracy; I think they've purposefully been using the Hollywood model for inspiration.