Here's a new idea: Turn that Kinect or other camera around and point it at a video feed that comes from somewhere else. Say I want to watch cerain kinds of ads. I substitute the video feed from the Kinect (or Sanyo or whatever device) with a video stream designed to elicit the kinds of ads I want to see. It never actually sees me. It sees old Leave it to Beaver reruns, or Scooby Doo episodes. Whatever you want. Or turn it around and show it the program that it's sending you right now. That would be an interesting experiment in itself. Would it settle into one of a number of stable advertising states?
Just another detail in the race to implement constant commercial surveillance of everybody's home and another reason to opt-out of this technical innovation.
A few more of the stories and the idea of being watched by your TV will seem normal. But not acceptable to me or anybody who cares even slightly about privacy.
MacOS subjects you to a lot of lock-in and hackability costs. I prefer to view them as costs since using a software imposes the harm mainly on one's self whereas deploying or propagating a software in a multiple user situation imposes the harm or cost on others. There's also the dollar cost of using apple, which is very high.
Compare your awareness of what was going on in any area: popular culture, technology, politics, finance, etc. in the '90s to your awareness of those same things in the '80s. I'm confident that you will see that you understood the world a LOT BETTER in the '90s than in the '80s.
The same applies to me with respect ot the '80s versus the '70s. I thought I knew what was going on at the time and have clear memories of SOME things, but nothing like my experience of the '80s.
But administering a monitoring and collection system for internet usage taxes would be expensive. I don't think I wanted the government in the middle of every transaction.
At 38, you'd be "pushing 40" in 2012, so you'd have been born in 1974 which means you were six in 1980. Your awareness of the larger culture outside your momma's house would be pretty sketchy. By 1990, you'd be sixteen and beginning to understand what was going on outside momma's house. So basically you missed the 80's in terms of the understanding the culture and technology of the time.
If you were born a decade earlier, you had the opportunity to see the culture and tech play out as an adult or near-adult.
Because most large businesses have a large number of mission critical applications running and a few of them only work on Windows. But that may mean that only a few machines need Windows installations. The rest would be fine with Linux withor without WINE.
I think the point was that the barrier to entry of writing small useful applications is low. That's as useful to professionals as it is to beginners because it means you the professional can whip out a program that gets a simple job done really quickly.
That doesn't mean it's not also an effective tool for writing big complex applications, though there might be better ones for that.
That would be how many words you know. I think the more relevant number is the number of words that people use in speech. Almost all the words that would be used in plain text (xkcd-style) passwords would be drawn from the much smaller set that most people use every day.
"head" is more likely to be used than any of its synonyms
Given that the tech field is overwhelming dominated by men, and this is a tech site, it's not a great leap of logic to conclude most who come here are male.
That's pretty unscientific.
The question is how old... hard to say but most of the reminiscing of the "good old days" here relates to the 80s and 90s, which points to people who are in their 20s and 30s. Of course slashdot has a firm base of people who think the good old days were the 50s and 60s, but they've been irrelevant in mainstream tech for a long time now.
If you remember the "good old days" of the 80s and 90s clearly, you're pushing 50 or older now.
Does anybody really think that Apple doesn't know their market?
Does anybody think Google and Amazon and Facebook don't know what users want?
Just because the heads of these companies are male doesn't mean they don't know how to women.
Sorry about the missing verb. I intended "sell to" but you can insert whatever verb pleases you.
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Kinect cameras can move to some degree. Maybe they'd do a mating dance.
The government surveillance is only slightly more unacceptable than commercial surveillance.
At least in the USA we theoretically can't be surveilled by the government without a (secret?) warrant that issues upon probable cause.
OK, you can stop laughing now.
So what it comes down to is, should HTTP represent the user's POV or the Government's?
Neither. HTTP deals with clients and servers, not users and governments.
When the government controls the server and forces censorship on everyone, that's a distinction without a difference.
Here's a new idea: Turn that Kinect or other camera around and point it at a video feed that comes from somewhere else. Say I want to watch cerain kinds of ads. I substitute the video feed from the Kinect (or Sanyo or whatever device) with a video stream designed to elicit the kinds of ads I want to see. It never actually sees me. It sees old Leave it to Beaver reruns, or Scooby Doo episodes. Whatever you want. Or turn it around and show it the program that it's sending you right now. That would be an interesting experiment in itself. Would it settle into one of a number of stable advertising states?
Just another detail in the race to implement constant commercial surveillance of everybody's home and another reason to opt-out of this technical innovation.
A few more of the stories and the idea of being watched by your TV will seem normal. But not acceptable to me or anybody who cares even slightly about privacy.
Technically accurate, but uninformative.
MacOS subjects you to a lot of lock-in and hackability costs. I prefer to view them as costs since using a software imposes the harm mainly on one's self whereas deploying or propagating a software in a multiple user situation imposes the harm or cost on others. There's also the dollar cost of using apple, which is very high.
Only for religiously proscribes IPs. If it's proscribed for political reason the code is "1984 - Thoughtcrime found on site".
In a normal person's point of view, the user has not erred. The government has erred, and HTTP has no provision for that.
From the government's point of view, the user has erred because no right-thinking user would want to access a proscribed IP.
So what it comes down to is, should HTTP represent the user's POV or the Government's?
Compare your awareness of what was going on in any area: popular culture, technology, politics, finance, etc. in the '90s to your awareness of those same things in the '80s. I'm confident that you will see that you understood the world a LOT BETTER in the '90s than in the '80s.
The same applies to me with respect ot the '80s versus the '70s. I thought I knew what was going on at the time and have clear memories of SOME things, but nothing like my experience of the '80s.
Expensive != nearly impossible. The current infrastructure can't even handle that.
No, but they're highly correlated.
But administering a monitoring and collection system for internet usage taxes would be expensive. I don't think I wanted the government in the middle of every transaction.
Try reading the whole comment before deciding whether you think I'm in favor of such a tax.
Read my comment again and decide whether you're pointing out anything that I didn't state in my comment.
At 38, you'd be "pushing 40" in 2012, so you'd have been born in 1974 which means you were six in 1980. Your awareness of the larger culture outside your momma's house would be pretty sketchy. By 1990, you'd be sixteen and beginning to understand what was going on outside momma's house. So basically you missed the 80's in terms of the understanding the culture and technology of the time.
If you were born a decade earlier, you had the opportunity to see the culture and tech play out as an adult or near-adult.
What DogDude would like is a paid-support alternative to paid-upgrade. There's nothing wrong with that model and it may be where MS eventually goes.
Why are we even paying for Windows OS?
Because most large businesses have a large number of mission critical applications running and a few of them only work on Windows. But that may mean that only a few machines need Windows installations. The rest would be fine with Linux withor without WINE.
I think the point was that the barrier to entry of writing small useful applications is low. That's as useful to professionals as it is to beginners because it means you the professional can whip out a program that gets a simple job done really quickly.
That doesn't mean it's not also an effective tool for writing big complex applications, though there might be better ones for that.
+interesting Dang no mod points today.
That would be how many words you know. I think the more relevant number is the number of words that people use in speech. Almost all the words that would be used in plain text (xkcd-style) passwords would be drawn from the much smaller set that most people use every day. "head" is more likely to be used than any of its synonyms
There's a new subject for a poll right there:
How many times have you gotten laid using Slashdot?
Why would we lie about our age on Slashdot. We're all using aliases and Slashdot doesn't seem a to get anybody laid.
There was a poll... But it was before you made your account.
I believe you, but since I'm relatively new here, perhaps you could clue me in on how to find old Slashdot polling data.
Given that the tech field is overwhelming dominated by men, and this is a tech site, it's not a great leap of logic to conclude most who come here are male.
That's pretty unscientific.
The question is how old... hard to say but most of the reminiscing of the "good old days" here relates to the 80s and 90s, which points to people who are in their 20s and 30s. Of course slashdot has a firm base of people who think the good old days were the 50s and 60s, but they've been irrelevant in mainstream tech for a long time now.
If you remember the "good old days" of the 80s and 90s clearly, you're pushing 50 or older now.
Does anybody really think that Apple doesn't know their market? Does anybody think Google and Amazon and Facebook don't know what users want? Just because the heads of these companies are male doesn't mean they don't know how to women.
Sorry about the missing verb. I intended "sell to" but you can insert whatever verb pleases you.