Anyone else read Prey by Michael Crichton? It deals with swarms of miniature cameras and the havoc that ensues. Hopefully these people will be more responsible than the ones in the book. And hopefully the stuff won't go berserk on us and start killing us.
Also, George Tirebiter is the name of the old mascot of the University of Southern California. Some students found a dog (who chased cars, hence Tirebiter) and he became an adopted mascot. There were several, but I doubt many people know about it anymore. I think I'm one of the few people who has ever read that sign on campus. (-:
Just a little addition to the Tirebiter fame. I know it's off-topic
The problem with letting everyone look at the source code is that most Americans would have no idea what they were looking at. Let's face it, most of the country is not programming literate. Sure, the gov. could open source Carnivore, and ppl on slashdot could show them what's wrong with it, but the vast majority of Americans would have no idea what's going on. (I even have to wonder if they would care very much.) Hence why they want a few university's seals of approval--that way the average American has something more than computer freaks or the gov. to listen to. Because most ppl would just rather trust a university than a computer nerd. (-: Even though we're more trustworthy.
--go easy on your responses to me, I'm a newbie. (-;
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Anyone else read Prey by Michael Crichton? It deals with swarms of miniature cameras and the havoc that ensues. Hopefully these people will be more responsible than the ones in the book. And hopefully the stuff won't go berserk on us and start killing us.
Also, George Tirebiter is the name of the old mascot of the University of Southern California. Some students found a dog (who chased cars, hence Tirebiter) and he became an adopted mascot. There were several, but I doubt many people know about it anymore. I think I'm one of the few people who has ever read that sign on campus. (-: Just a little addition to the Tirebiter fame. I know it's off-topic
The problem with letting everyone look at the source code is that most Americans would have no idea what they were looking at. Let's face it, most of the country is not programming literate. Sure, the gov. could open source Carnivore, and ppl on slashdot could show them what's wrong with it, but the vast majority of Americans would have no idea what's going on. (I even have to wonder if they would care very much.) Hence why they want a few university's seals of approval--that way the average American has something more than computer freaks or the gov. to listen to. Because most ppl would just rather trust a university than a computer nerd. (-: Even though we're more trustworthy. --go easy on your responses to me, I'm a newbie. (-;