Don't patronize malls. Go to your local stores instead - and support them before they get swallowed up by giant faceless, evil retail chains.
Shopping malls are already dehumanized temples of consumerism, even without the robots. Those who know what social interaction is avoid these places like the plague anyway...
of the record labels. Before records, musicians made money by playing in live concerts. That's what musicians should do today, and "piracy" would cease to exist, along with the vampiristic record companies: live gigs would turn a profit, and free recordings (Youtube, MP3 and others) would be like film trailers, something to draw you to the live concerts.
Famously, the Grateful Dead encouraged people to record their concerts and saw nothing wrong with that, because 1/ every gig was different, and 2/ they considered their concerts to be where the interest, and the money, was.
With that said, banning Glass while allowing phones is ridiculous. Every day on my commute, I've got dozens of people around me holding their phones to their faces. At a lunch restaurant I see the same thing. At dinner, in bars, on the street - you've got people fiddling with their phones everywhere.
People who fiddle with their phones aren't filming you. That's why you tolerate them. Now, if all the cellphone users had it up and filming around them all the time, how do you think you'd feel?
I have a disabled friend who's missing all four limbs. Curious people constantly film him when he walks on his prosthetics with their cellphones - yes, obnoxious tactless jerks raise their cellphones and start filming right in his face, as if he was a spectacle, just like that. He told me it's been years since he hates going out because of this. That's how you'll feel too when every other schmuck in the street wears the goddamn Google glasses.
Well, you *are* supposed to be dying. I'm assuming it can't be a totally pleasant experience, whatever method you choose. I'm just thinking ODing is the least unpleasant way of all, especially if you're not addicted in the first place. From what I've read, it beats hanging, choking in your garage with the car running or shooting yourself.
Thank you for your invaluable contribution to the discussion about assisted suicide. I you had lived through what Adams and his father have been through, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. Of course, since you're probably in your teens and living in you parents' basement, you wouldn't know...
I have 10 grams of coke hidden in my house. My dad suffered tremendously during his last weeks of life. I've seen it with my own eyes. If I'm ever in that situation, I've instructed my family to overdose me with the coke. They'll have plausible deniability (I was a junkie who wanted his dose). As for me, they say the first hit is better than an orgasm, and with 10 g, it'd also be my last, so I'd go in style.
Of course, if I'm conscious and able to, I'll do the coke myself if I have to...
I'll be surprised if in ten years nearly all new cars aren't fully electric.
I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load - I'm talking millions of people going back home after work and plugging in their power-hungry cars at roughly the same time every day, on top of the domestic spikes power companies already have trouble coping with during cold snaps.
In summary, what can we conclude from these data? Canada, with by far the most sole-country proposals, seems like it is up to something.
Right, "Canada is up to something" is a great way to report on international negotiations. Okay, they've taken the geek approach of grepping through the drafts instead of reading it in full (fair enough), but at least they could have extracted whatever keywords appear after "Canada" and "oppose" / "propose", to figure out the something it's up to. It's not hard in Perl, gee...
DuckDuckGo appreciates my business by specifically respecting my privacy both in policy and by specifically not recording what I search for.
For now.
Right now they ride on the anti-NSA wave, and they're still small. When they get bigger and the lure of advertising money becomes irresistible... well, we'll see.
DDG is great, I use it too, but I'm watching them, and I'll switch to another search engine the minute they do something rotten.
If any concern should know better than falling for the cloud BS, especially one that's managed by another, private concern, it's the CIA. Jesus, even I, Mister Nobody, don't put anything in any cloud that matters, and keep my own valuable (to me) data on my own servers...
How is it possible that large organizations such as Verizon fail to include or test even the most trivial security checks before they bring their websites online?
Because you think the size of an organization or the level of sensitivity of the data it handles are a guarantee of professionalism? How quaint.
Newsflash: big corps, health care providers, governments... have 1 competent and responsible employee for 100 hacks in their employ. That's if they don't outsource their services god knows where, where they have no visibility on who does what and how. If you think your data is safe with big concerns, you're deluding yourself.
Now we have people complaining of cable orientation and defending and defending closed proprietary products...
It's called maturity, something the/. crowd has a lot more of since the site's inception. Sometimes good proprietary stuff is better, sometimes small things like cable orientation matter. Sure beats the "if it's not open-source / Linux / GNU it's automatically crap" attitude of yore around here.
Also, the Snowden leaks mostly show that it's more honest citizens than terrorists who should be concerned about ubiquitous surveillance. Cue 1984 references...
In a sense, Bin Laden got what he wanted: he didn't want to hurt western societies directly, he wanted to get western societies to collapse into dictatorships by giving the initial push (9/11) that would allow mostly-democratic governments to slowly turn nasty with a good reason.
I was in the passenger seat of a high-end BMW the other day that did exactly that: the driver drove slowly along the row of parked cars until the car beeped, then he let go of the steering wheel, reversed and let the car park itself. Quite amazing really...
Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ? Surely, by definition, a sizable portion of the population that requires Obamacare doesn't necessarily have the means to have a computer or an internet connection.
And no, "anybody has a computer these days" is not an answer. I know plenty of people who don't have enough to feed themselves, let alone buy a computer - let alone one that's recent enough to cope with plugins that invariably tell you "your operating system / browser is not supported anymore, please upgrade." every 6 months.
Instead of a gatekeeper, I'd rather have a layer of software that automatically lies about myself (such as always giving my name as "John Doe" or my GPS location as being somewhere in the open desert near Timbuktu or something), so that not only the data hoarders don't get my personal information, but their data pool gets polluted. Bad data is much more of a problem to them than no data at all.
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Don't patronize malls. Go to your local stores instead - and support them before they get swallowed up by giant faceless, evil retail chains.
Shopping malls are already dehumanized temples of consumerism, even without the robots. Those who know what social interaction is avoid these places like the plague anyway...
of the record labels. Before records, musicians made money by playing in live concerts. That's what musicians should do today, and "piracy" would cease to exist, along with the vampiristic record companies: live gigs would turn a profit, and free recordings (Youtube, MP3 and others) would be like film trailers, something to draw you to the live concerts.
Famously, the Grateful Dead encouraged people to record their concerts and saw nothing wrong with that, because 1/ every gig was different, and 2/ they considered their concerts to be where the interest, and the money, was.
You mean to tell me, when WOPR was busy looking for the launch code in Wargames, it was all a bunch of crap?
With that said, banning Glass while allowing phones is ridiculous. Every day on my commute, I've got dozens of people around me holding their phones to their faces. At a lunch restaurant I see the same thing. At dinner, in bars, on the street - you've got people fiddling with their phones everywhere.
People who fiddle with their phones aren't filming you. That's why you tolerate them. Now, if all the cellphone users had it up and filming around them all the time, how do you think you'd feel?
I have a disabled friend who's missing all four limbs. Curious people constantly film him when he walks on his prosthetics with their cellphones - yes, obnoxious tactless jerks raise their cellphones and start filming right in his face, as if he was a spectacle, just like that. He told me it's been years since he hates going out because of this. That's how you'll feel too when every other schmuck in the street wears the goddamn Google glasses.
Well, you *are* supposed to be dying. I'm assuming it can't be a totally pleasant experience, whatever method you choose. I'm just thinking ODing is the least unpleasant way of all, especially if you're not addicted in the first place. From what I've read, it beats hanging, choking in your garage with the car running or shooting yourself.
Thank you for your invaluable contribution to the discussion about assisted suicide. I you had lived through what Adams and his father have been through, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. Of course, since you're probably in your teens and living in you parents' basement, you wouldn't know...
I have 10 grams of coke hidden in my house. My dad suffered tremendously during his last weeks of life. I've seen it with my own eyes. If I'm ever in that situation, I've instructed my family to overdose me with the coke. They'll have plausible deniability (I was a junkie who wanted his dose). As for me, they say the first hit is better than an orgasm, and with 10 g, it'd also be my last, so I'd go in style.
Of course, if I'm conscious and able to, I'll do the coke myself if I have to...
the legislature passed a bill forbidding the state coastal commission from defining rates of sea-level rise for regulation before 2016.
They really ought to keep the sea in check right now. Without regulation, it's free to rise however fast it damn well pleases until 2016.
I'll be surprised if in ten years nearly all new cars aren't fully electric.
I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load - I'm talking millions of people going back home after work and plugging in their power-hungry cars at roughly the same time every day, on top of the domestic spikes power companies already have trouble coping with during cold snaps.
In summary, what can we conclude from these data? Canada, with by far the most sole-country proposals, seems like it is up to something.
Right, "Canada is up to something" is a great way to report on international negotiations. Okay, they've taken the geek approach of grepping through the drafts instead of reading it in full (fair enough), but at least they could have extracted whatever keywords appear after "Canada" and "oppose" / "propose", to figure out the something it's up to. It's not hard in Perl, gee...
DuckDuckGo appreciates my business by specifically respecting my privacy both in policy and by specifically not recording what I search for.
For now.
Right now they ride on the anti-NSA wave, and they're still small. When they get bigger and the lure of advertising money becomes irresistible... well, we'll see.
DDG is great, I use it too, but I'm watching them, and I'll switch to another search engine the minute they do something rotten.
Google used to be small and trustworthy too...
If any concern should know better than falling for the cloud BS, especially one that's managed by another, private concern, it's the CIA. Jesus, even I, Mister Nobody, don't put anything in any cloud that matters, and keep my own valuable (to me) data on my own servers...
The minimum fine for hacking any component of the Internet is $5,000
There, fixed that for you.
Didn't you know? Hacking has become a criminal activity that sends you to court nowadays...
Yes, but weather conditions on the moon are much easier for cable workers to work on the infrastructure in than in Montreal.
It's called being a luddite.
How is it possible that large organizations such as Verizon fail to include or test even the most trivial security checks before they bring their websites online?
Because you think the size of an organization or the level of sensitivity of the data it handles are a guarantee of professionalism? How quaint.
Newsflash: big corps, health care providers, governments... have 1 competent and responsible employee for 100 hacks in their employ. That's if they don't outsource their services god knows where, where they have no visibility on who does what and how. If you think your data is safe with big concerns, you're deluding yourself.
Every other post on /. is about Facebook these days.
News for internet tools, stuff that doesn't really matter...
You've obviously never been to Finland: *everybody* has a cell phone there - preferably from Nokia in the Oulu area ;)
without browser extension or anything: just don't use the blasted thing...
Now we have people complaining of cable orientation and defending and defending closed proprietary products...
It's called maturity, something the /. crowd has a lot more of since the site's inception. Sometimes good proprietary stuff is better, sometimes small things like cable orientation matter. Sure beats the "if it's not open-source / Linux / GNU it's automatically crap" attitude of yore around here.
Obama got the Nobel prize, not the Sakharov prize.
Security through secrecy = no security.
Also, the Snowden leaks mostly show that it's more honest citizens than terrorists who should be concerned about ubiquitous surveillance. Cue 1984 references...
In a sense, Bin Laden got what he wanted: he didn't want to hurt western societies directly, he wanted to get western societies to collapse into dictatorships by giving the initial push (9/11) that would allow mostly-democratic governments to slowly turn nasty with a good reason.
I was in the passenger seat of a high-end BMW the other day that did exactly that: the driver drove slowly along the row of parked cars until the car beeped, then he let go of the steering wheel, reversed and let the car park itself. Quite amazing really...
Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ? Surely, by definition, a sizable portion of the population that requires Obamacare doesn't necessarily have the means to have a computer or an internet connection.
And no, "anybody has a computer these days" is not an answer. I know plenty of people who don't have enough to feed themselves, let alone buy a computer - let alone one that's recent enough to cope with plugins that invariably tell you "your operating system / browser is not supported anymore, please upgrade." every 6 months.
Instead of a gatekeeper, I'd rather have a layer of software that automatically lies about myself (such as always giving my name as "John Doe" or my GPS location as being somewhere in the open desert near Timbuktu or something), so that not only the data hoarders don't get my personal information, but their data pool gets polluted. Bad data is much more of a problem to them than no data at all.