Wouldn't changing the time on the phone and walking/driving the same path accomplish all that? I've never used Google Tracks, does it use time from the GPS signal, or time from the system?
Incredibly, the iPhone and iPad would've probably came along anyway, made by an Orange Inc. (or some other name), whose CEO is... Steve Jobs.
Call me a fanboy, but Steve did bring about the revolutions.. even when they ousted him out of his own company, he made NeXTStep, and look what happened to that OS (hint, it's now an OS with the letter X on it).
I agree with the first half of your post, but "before the web, the computers were not that useful to many people"? For FSM's sake...
The web arrived in people's consciousness in about 1995. At that time computers have been around 30-40-odd years, desktop computers maybe 15. And you really saying corporations didn't use IBM XTs in the 80's as productivity-improving tools?
Fucking kids... Heck, I remember banks getting worried about the Michelangelo virus, and that was 1992!
Unfortunately Android still doesn't have BlackBerry's feature: allow or deny individual priveleges (or prompt on each request).
So if you have an online game that wants network access and for some reason, access to your contact list, on Blackberries you can say "Ok for network, deny for contact list", and the application gets a AcccesDeniedException when it tries to open the contact list.
Actually, once I was looking for a hotel in $CITY_X, and I just used Google for it. Went to a few sites, compared the offers, booked one, job done, I started reading salon.com, which that day featured ads which surprisingly said "Hotels in $CITY_X!". First I thought "wow, that's coincidental!", but then I realised, no, it wasn't coincidental at all... those were ads from Google!
Eh, nowadays people just type what they want in the Google Search bar, remember the Facebook login debacle?
On the other hand, URLs are going back to the AOL keyword origins anyway, look at this domains: http://nyti.ms/, http://flic.kr/, http://youtu.be/ . Yes, they're real. And yes, I hate them.
Hopefully NFC will enable this... 2 devices with WiFi, they brush up and exchange ad-hoc WiFi configuration (1 will create the network, set password to xyz, assign itself IP x, the other can have IP y), they pair up over that network connection, and transfer files over a protocol that they've also agreed upon.
I vaguely recall a demo of someone using a pen to "click" on a file on one computer screen, and moving that pen to another screen, "clicking" on that, and the file appeared on the desktop region where the pen touched that screen...
Yeah, how about I put the innocent you in a cage for 9+ years, and then I release you... hmm, I'm sure you wont want to kill me in revenge, would you? Even if I put you in a nice cell and fed you steaks every day, I'm sure you'd still want to.
Analogously, imagine if some Mexicans (I choose Mexico because it's a close enough country) kidnapped a family member of yours, locked him up in a prison and declared he was a terrorist with no evidence. You try to go to your government to get him released, but they are just puppets under the Mexicans. I wonder if that would that piss you off enough that the normally peaceful you would want to enact revenge in some way...
Remember how the Iranians arrested 3 American hikers and accused them of being spies? Although there's no evidence of that? How they put up a kangaroo trial where the outcome would be clear: "guilty"?
You might know that, but do you know about the Afghanis and Iraqis who were arrested by coalition forces and were accused of being terrorists although the only evidence of that is the word of a pissed-off neighbor trying to get rid of them? How the Military put up a kangaroo trial ("Military commissions") where the outcome would be clear: "guilty"? Even with the intervention of the US justice system, some of them have still been locked in cages for 9+ years, and the Obama administration said, "even if they're not convicted, we can't release them."
Yeah, United States of Iran indeed. Well fucking done America...
If you use your own BEServer, it encrypts traffic between the phone and the server using keys known only to it and the phone (I think during pairing the server tells the phone its public key, the phone generates a key-pair, encrypts its public key using the server's public key, and transmit it to the server -- this is probably a wrong explanation, since the public key is supposed to be public, why should it be encrypted before transportation), so not even RIM can see what the data payload is, if you trust their marketing material... and it seems a lot of government agencies (e.g. the German Security Agency) do.
BlackBerry even does bogus CPU cycles to prevent attackers from seeing which part of the CPU/RAM is warmer than the others and gain information about their en-/decryption from that...
Your "security personnel" are actually people working for the FBI, presumably also under orders of their boss to violate people's fourth amendment rights as set forth in your sacred constitution(tm), so the corruption goes all the way to the top. Although to throw a racist blanket statement like you do, that's the way it works in "Africa" as well isn't it.
American exceptionalism: we think we are exceptional! Sorry America, you're as shit as everyone else.
Actually I used to have my contact info in my profile because I trust my friends (actually, lately I have people I barely know that I've stupidly approved) and I thought it would probably be convenient for them to have said information, and I don't have any privacy-violating apps installed. But disgustingly, apps your friends installed can also access your information, and this is the default setting unless you go in that mysterious region known as "The Settings" and disable that option.
Was that really Slashdot-worthy? A douchey meaningless video with too loud music I had to fast-forward to get to the point, with the "OHMIGOD this is the greatest thing ever" Also sprach Zarathustra music to stroke your own ego, "look at this great thing I invented, I managed to use a knife to cut holes and shit"?
Probably an education he could afford? In fact at the start of an audio interview (bottom of post) with him, he stated his parents said Somalia is too dangerous, so he moved to Kuwait...
How about a US citizen who's been arrested and tortured in Kuwait, and has been put in a no-fly-list by the boogie-man-fearing DHS, and for what reason? He's of Somalian origin, moved to Virginia as a baby, US citizen, but traveled to study to Somalia, it was too dangerous, so he moved to Kuwait. And the sharp-as-nails FBI/CIA/fucking morons thinks: he's Muslim, lived in Virginia (so did al-Awlaki), he traveled to Somalia (al-Awlaki's there!), he must know something!
So they got him, tortured him, he's not said anything because he knows nothing, and now they're (the US) stuck having committed crime against him.. and they still put him in a no-fly-list... well done, fucking morons.
Google "Gulet Mohamed" if you didn't know about this.
Also, what about the fact that now everybody and their bosses and their moms are friends with each other, people are censoring themselves because of fear of stigmatizing from whoever. People talk differently to their college buddies than with their parents, when it was just just your college friends with you, posting on it is like having a party in the dorms, and now posting on FB is more like giving a speech in your wedding, where everyone from your life is there. So people no longer talk freely.
A democratic government has to be made accountable, a government run in secret makes getting that accountability harder.
A private person, on the other hand, should have the right to keep things private from the public, for example the police file on him.
Otherwise, you might as well support AT&T wire-tapping your phones and selling your secrets to the highest bidders ("Hello KingFrog, I'm calling from Ford. I hear you mentioned interest in our 2011 Focuse to your friend on the phone just a few minutes ago? Can I interest you in our attractive financing deal?").
Interestingly, if the ISPs were evil (wait, AT&T, cooperating with the government on unwarranted eavesdropping?), they could log all your traffic. Ah, that's the future, the government monitoring your Google queries (which will be approved under the excuse of "it's to catch terrorists and people trying to read WikiLeaks!")
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Wouldn't changing the time on the phone and walking/driving the same path accomplish all that? I've never used Google Tracks, does it use time from the GPS signal, or time from the system?
Incredibly, the iPhone and iPad would've probably came along anyway, made by an Orange Inc. (or some other name), whose CEO is... Steve Jobs.
Call me a fanboy, but Steve did bring about the revolutions.. even when they ousted him out of his own company, he made NeXTStep, and look what happened to that OS (hint, it's now an OS with the letter X on it).
I agree with the first half of your post, but "before the web, the computers were not that useful to many people"? For FSM's sake...
The web arrived in people's consciousness in about 1995. At that time computers have been around 30-40-odd years, desktop computers maybe 15. And you really saying corporations didn't use IBM XTs in the 80's as productivity-improving tools?
Fucking kids... Heck, I remember banks getting worried about the Michelangelo virus, and that was 1992!
Unfortunately Android still doesn't have BlackBerry's feature: allow or deny individual priveleges (or prompt on each request).
So if you have an online game that wants network access and for some reason, access to your contact list, on Blackberries you can say "Ok for network, deny for contact list", and the application gets a AcccesDeniedException when it tries to open the contact list.
And all that from "outdated" technology!
Actually, once I was looking for a hotel in $CITY_X, and I just used Google for it. Went to a few sites, compared the offers, booked one, job done, I started reading salon.com, which that day featured ads which surprisingly said "Hotels in $CITY_X!". First I thought "wow, that's coincidental!", but then I realised, no, it wasn't coincidental at all... those were ads from Google!
Indeed... these kids have probably seen a laptop or 2, but not a Kindle, which may explain the "OMG!" response he said he got..
Eh, nowadays people just type what they want in the Google Search bar, remember the Facebook login debacle?
On the other hand, URLs are going back to the AOL keyword origins anyway, look at this domains: http://nyti.ms/, http://flic.kr/, http://youtu.be/ . Yes, they're real. And yes, I hate them.
Hopefully NFC will enable this... 2 devices with WiFi, they brush up and exchange ad-hoc WiFi configuration (1 will create the network, set password to xyz, assign itself IP x, the other can have IP y), they pair up over that network connection, and transfer files over a protocol that they've also agreed upon.
I vaguely recall a demo of someone using a pen to "click" on a file on one computer screen, and moving that pen to another screen, "clicking" on that, and the file appeared on the desktop region where the pen touched that screen...
Yeah, how about I put the innocent you in a cage for 9+ years, and then I release you... hmm, I'm sure you wont want to kill me in revenge, would you? Even if I put you in a nice cell and fed you steaks every day, I'm sure you'd still want to.
Analogously, imagine if some Mexicans (I choose Mexico because it's a close enough country) kidnapped a family member of yours, locked him up in a prison and declared he was a terrorist with no evidence. You try to go to your government to get him released, but they are just puppets under the Mexicans. I wonder if that would that piss you off enough that the normally peaceful you would want to enact revenge in some way...
Too bad you got moderated troll...
Remember how the Iranians arrested 3 American hikers and accused them of being spies? Although there's no evidence of that? How they put up a kangaroo trial where the outcome would be clear: "guilty"?
You might know that, but do you know about the Afghanis and Iraqis who were arrested by coalition forces and were accused of being terrorists although the only evidence of that is the word of a pissed-off neighbor trying to get rid of them? How the Military put up a kangaroo trial ("Military commissions") where the outcome would be clear: "guilty"? Even with the intervention of the US justice system, some of them have still been locked in cages for 9+ years, and the Obama administration said, "even if they're not convicted, we can't release them."
Yeah, United States of Iran indeed. Well fucking done America...
If you use your own BEServer, it encrypts traffic between the phone and the server using keys known only to it and the phone (I think during pairing the server tells the phone its public key, the phone generates a key-pair, encrypts its public key using the server's public key, and transmit it to the server -- this is probably a wrong explanation, since the public key is supposed to be public, why should it be encrypted before transportation), so not even RIM can see what the data payload is, if you trust their marketing material... and it seems a lot of government agencies (e.g. the German Security Agency) do.
BlackBerry even does bogus CPU cycles to prevent attackers from seeing which part of the CPU/RAM is warmer than the others and gain information about their en-/decryption from that...
Hysteria 2.0! Because "2.0" is the new "Cyber-"!
Your "security personnel" are actually people working for the FBI, presumably also under orders of their boss to violate people's fourth amendment rights as set forth in your sacred constitution(tm), so the corruption goes all the way to the top. Although to throw a racist blanket statement like you do, that's the way it works in "Africa" as well isn't it.
American exceptionalism: we think we are exceptional! Sorry America, you're as shit as everyone else.
Actually the chance of getting your electronic things confiscated exists when entering the glorious nation of United States of America as well. Yeah, who's the Free Nation(TM) now?
Actually it's PrtScr. And No need to hold Ctrl in Windows to do it. Although in Windows, holding Alt allows you to capture the current active window.
Actually I used to have my contact info in my profile because I trust my friends (actually, lately I have people I barely know that I've stupidly approved) and I thought it would probably be convenient for them to have said information, and I don't have any privacy-violating apps installed. But disgustingly, apps your friends installed can also access your information, and this is the default setting unless you go in that mysterious region known as "The Settings" and disable that option.
So yeah, fuck you Facebook. Fuck you to hell...
Was that really Slashdot-worthy? A douchey meaningless video with too loud music I had to fast-forward to get to the point, with the "OHMIGOD this is the greatest thing ever" Also sprach Zarathustra music to stroke your own ego, "look at this great thing I invented, I managed to use a knife to cut holes and shit"?
"We can't release you, because if we do, your anger about your illegal mistreatment will probably lead you to seek revenge on us. Sorry!"
Yay, you're just as intelligent as the Youtube commenters. It's a fucking hardware dummy, you idiot!
Probably an education he could afford? In fact at the start of an audio interview (bottom of post) with him, he stated his parents said Somalia is too dangerous, so he moved to Kuwait...
How about a US citizen who's been arrested and tortured in Kuwait, and has been put in a no-fly-list by the boogie-man-fearing DHS, and for what reason? He's of Somalian origin, moved to Virginia as a baby, US citizen, but traveled to study to Somalia, it was too dangerous, so he moved to Kuwait. And the sharp-as-nails FBI/CIA/fucking morons thinks: he's Muslim, lived in Virginia (so did al-Awlaki), he traveled to Somalia (al-Awlaki's there!), he must know something!
So they got him, tortured him, he's not said anything because he knows nothing, and now they're (the US) stuck having committed crime against him.. and they still put him in a no-fly-list... well done, fucking morons.
Google "Gulet Mohamed" if you didn't know about this.
Indeed, more useful stats would be how many unique people logged-on from around the world in a 24-hour timeframe, in a weekly timeframe...
Then again, "logging on" is a weak measurement, since maybe 1 user could be controlling 10 accounts while obsessively playing IdiotVile...
Also, what about the fact that now everybody and their bosses and their moms are friends with each other, people are censoring themselves because of fear of stigmatizing from whoever. People talk differently to their college buddies than with their parents, when it was just just your college friends with you, posting on it is like having a party in the dorms, and now posting on FB is more like giving a speech in your wedding, where everyone from your life is there. So people no longer talk freely.
Yep, it's doomed.
A democratic government has to be made accountable, a government run in secret makes getting that accountability harder.
A private person, on the other hand, should have the right to keep things private from the public, for example the police file on him.
Otherwise, you might as well support AT&T wire-tapping your phones and selling your secrets to the highest bidders ("Hello KingFrog, I'm calling from Ford. I hear you mentioned interest in our 2011 Focuse to your friend on the phone just a few minutes ago? Can I interest you in our attractive financing deal?").
Interestingly, if the ISPs were evil (wait, AT&T, cooperating with the government on unwarranted eavesdropping?), they could log all your traffic. Ah, that's the future, the government monitoring your Google queries (which will be approved under the excuse of "it's to catch terrorists and people trying to read WikiLeaks!")