Please read carefully and don't pre-judge this, but surveillance this isn't a dystopia.
There have been cameras at malls since at least the 1980s. At convenience stores probably the same.
No one complains about those.
Libraries have had membership cards since at least the 1980s, video rental places the same since the 1980s. Your Visa or Mastercard has tracked your purchases since maybe the 1960s. The phone company has known a list of people you called since maybe the 1940s. The company you work for probably has kept an eye on employees since the 1970s or 1980s.
Every time a criminal is busted or arrested due to a camera, people are relieved.
Don't you feel relieved that in the modern day they can usually track down hit-and-run drivers that run over pedestrians or get the identity of thugs that assault people or commit fraud. There are irrational paranoid fears of a 1984 style future or a Soviet Union future, but in 1984 the evil government was actually losing the war, the Soviet Union disintegrated and China has vastly liberalized.
"My dogs bark all the time, and frequently at things I don't need to be notified about.
But when they do bark at real trouble, there's a different sound in it. "
If you just now realized this, I hope you have the very uncommon relationship where your dog is the owner and you are the pet.
Quit getting your news from a female talk show program.
Dogs and humans have been living with each other for tens of thousands of years -- so there are several thousand generations of dogs co-evolving with humans.
There is not a recent mystery here, there is not a coincidence here.
This relationship predates the written word -- although probably not cave art.
First, props to the uber cool username. I like it! And you musta had style even back in the 1990s with that Slashdot id.
That being said, you don't remember Michelle Obama trying to make sure kids aren't fattying up with cookies, potato chips and french fries at lunch?
And fruck you for not saying "Gee -- yeah she did that because kids should eat a healthy lunch" --- instead you puss out and deny it -- instead of doing the right thing and defend it.
Typos. Bad grammars. Calling someone stupid. What's not to love?
But -- hey -- let's mod a political screed up because it responds to another political screed. Protip: A true artisan can pants a political screed without gutter diving and name calling.
The 2014 Honda Civic I have heard can interface with a phone via an HDMI cable. Full blown interfaces are inevitable, probably in less than 5 years.
The selling point of integration via HDMI is that vehicles no longer need to have their own navigation systems (which is extra equipment and rather pointless in the smartphone era) and instead uses the phone navigation app.
[Shorter version: Apple acquiring Tesla would be stupid for both companies. Tesla shouldn't exclude Android, Apple doesn't have an interest in the auto market --- and standard interfaces will be expected in the near future... ]
The funny thing is -- considering how we just print more money --- is that the Arabs and Chinese are eager too take our funny money as payment for oil or electronics.
250 million Chinese toil away in factoriies for some greenbacks hastily printed in the USA with numbers like "$100" or "$1000" on them.
Quite a racket we are running --- let us hope it lasts!
American: "Can I buy a tanker of your oil for this suitcase of paper --- I mean dollars?"
People that argue against different presidents based on spending should be shunned.
First, the conversation devolves into uber-lameness where different jackasses start trotting out more shitty numbers out their ass.
Conversations with things like "But as a percent of GDP divided by the number of years, adjusted for inflation." are fucking lame. Use real reasons to make an argument --- even if the argument is wrong, anything is better than a nerd numbers fight.
"Automation and global cheap labour have existed for centuries. The pace of change, it's scope, and the impact of communication and shipping technologies are greater than before."
Disagreeing with what I said by agreeing with it too? Different. But it's cool. I can roll with that.
But the European Union would like assess a VAT on your post --- you know, a value added tax.
And those pesky Europeans are having trouble assessing a tax, because you didn't really add much "value".
To plead your case, you must fill out this form: http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/v... and one of the taxing authorities will get in touch with you and try to sort this all out with you in person.
"Small business owners are waiting for Obama to go away because their customers aren't willing to spend until Obama goes away."
Automation (sometimes via robots) and new technologies and labor strategies are altering the employment landscape.
This is bigger than any single person, and it will get worse. McDonald's, for example, is pursuing automation strategies.
Automation and global cheap labor are the new realities --- and with this comes institutional unemployment (fixed unemployment that is difficult or virtually impossible to eliminate) in the lower end of the employment sector.
Unemployment of those with college degrees is 3% in the USA. Even under your idea that Obama is a job-killer --- maybe / maybe not ---- the sheer job loss in the United States in lower end jobs is a bit too enormous to be attributed alone to one person, especially when many other countries have faced the same.
Slashdot Mirror
Please read carefully and don't pre-judge this, but surveillance this isn't a dystopia.
There have been cameras at malls since at least the 1980s. At convenience stores probably the same.
No one complains about those.
Libraries have had membership cards since at least the 1980s, video rental places the same since the 1980s. Your Visa or Mastercard has tracked your purchases since maybe the 1960s. The phone company has known a list of people you called since maybe the 1940s. The company you work for probably has kept an eye on employees since the 1970s or 1980s.
Every time a criminal is busted or arrested due to a camera, people are relieved.
Don't you feel relieved that in the modern day they can usually track down hit-and-run drivers that run over pedestrians or get the identity of thugs that assault people or commit fraud. There are irrational paranoid fears of a 1984 style future or a Soviet Union future, but in 1984 the evil government was actually losing the war, the Soviet Union disintegrated and China has vastly liberalized.
"My dogs bark all the time, and frequently at things I don't need to be notified about.
But when they do bark at real trouble, there's a different sound in it. "
If you just now realized this, I hope you have the very uncommon relationship where your dog is the owner and you are the pet.
"It shouldn't surprise anyone that an animal which can vocalize emotion has a brain that can pick it up as well"
Find me a mammal that doesn't vocalize. Hell, find me a bird. Aw shit --- find me an amphibian that doesn't vocalize.
Aw for fucks sake, crickets make noises and locusts make noises to communicate with each other.
Maybe -- just maybe --- life has communicated with noises for a long, long, long time.
Quit getting your news from a female talk show program.
Dogs and humans have been living with each other for tens of thousands of years -- so there are several thousand generations of dogs co-evolving with humans.
There is not a recent mystery here, there is not a coincidence here.
This relationship predates the written word -- although probably not cave art.
Okay so you crapped your pants but no one said you needed to do it in public.
Get some respect, man.
First, props to the uber cool username. I like it! And you musta had style even back in the 1990s with that Slashdot id.
That being said, you don't remember Michelle Obama trying to make sure kids aren't fattying up with cookies, potato chips and french fries at lunch?
And fruck you for not saying "Gee -- yeah she did that because kids should eat a healthy lunch" --- instead you puss out and deny it -- instead of doing the right thing and defend it.
Weak.
"Obama could buy everyone in America free donuts"
With 10% of the USA on food stamps, you are jackass for not thinking Obama ISN'T buying everyone donuts.
He IS buying everyone DONUTS!
Typos. Bad grammars. Calling someone stupid. What's not to love?
But -- hey -- let's mod a political screed up because it responds to another political screed. Protip: A true artisan can pants a political screed without gutter diving and name calling.
The 2014 Honda Civic I have heard can interface with a phone via an HDMI cable. Full blown interfaces are inevitable, probably in less than 5 years.
... ]
The selling point of integration via HDMI is that vehicles no longer need to have their own navigation systems (which is extra equipment and rather pointless in the smartphone era) and instead uses the phone navigation app.
[Shorter version: Apple acquiring Tesla would be stupid for both companies. Tesla shouldn't exclude Android, Apple doesn't have an interest in the auto market --- and standard interfaces will be expected in the near future
Anoither "Hey here is a idea for Microsoft so they can be relevant again" article.
Copying others isn't a long -term business plan -- when you copy, it is action without thought or imitation without intelligence.
If Microsoft wants to get positive press, they need to kill Metro and demonstrate competence in their primary product.
I think it is very accurate that your comment was rated Offtopic precisely because this article isn't about the value of PI.
"Perhaps a new XBox or some such for each resident family"
What basement-dwelling numbnuts up-modded this?
The funny thing is -- considering how we just print more money --- is that the Arabs and Chinese are eager too take our funny money as payment for oil or electronics.
250 million Chinese toil away in factoriies for some greenbacks hastily printed in the USA with numbers like "$100" or "$1000" on them.
Quite a racket we are running --- let us hope it lasts!
American: "Can I buy a tanker of your oil for this suitcase of paper --- I mean dollars?"
^^ That dude is dead on.
People that argue against different presidents based on spending should be shunned.
First, the conversation devolves into uber-lameness where different jackasses start trotting out more shitty numbers out their ass.
Conversations with things like "But as a percent of GDP divided by the number of years, adjusted for inflation." are fucking lame. Use real reasons to make an argument --- even if the argument is wrong, anything is better than a nerd numbers fight.
For fucks sake!
Be rude. Because this idea is stupid.
You think in 15 years everyone won't be recording all the time? They will be.
Whether it is Google Contact Lense, Apple Retina Display Phone or Acme Eyeballs --- there are going to be cameras everywhere.
So let us adjust.
"can't figure out how to open an application or find where anything I have installed is"
Exactly.
Metro is a typical Microsoft endeavor these days, they don't why they are doing anything, come up with some silly whim for 2 years then abandon it.
If they are strongly considering abandoning Windows Phone, what is the point of keeping the Metro interface in Windows 8?
Best post I've ever read here!!!
"As far as I can tell you need full cells so hair that has been cut with a scissor no"
Ah, the 1980s where Lex Luthor can clone Superman from a strand of his hair in Superman IV.
"has produced less original content than its neighbour Sun Wah Linux"
...
I always preferred "Wang Chung Linux" but to each their own
"Automation and global cheap labour have existed for centuries. The pace of change, it's scope, and the impact of communication and shipping technologies are greater than before."
Disagreeing with what I said by agreeing with it too? Different. But it's cool. I can roll with that.
But the European Union would like assess a VAT on your post --- you know, a value added tax.
And those pesky Europeans are having trouble assessing a tax, because you didn't really add much "value".
To plead your case, you must fill out this form: http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/v... and one of the taxing authorities will get in touch with you and try to sort this all out with you in person.
"Small business owners are waiting for Obama to go away because their customers aren't willing to spend until Obama goes away."
Automation (sometimes via robots) and new technologies and labor strategies are altering the employment landscape.
This is bigger than any single person, and it will get worse. McDonald's, for example, is pursuing automation strategies.
Automation and global cheap labor are the new realities --- and with this comes institutional unemployment (fixed unemployment that is difficult or virtually impossible to eliminate) in the lower end of the employment sector.
Unemployment of those with college degrees is 3% in the USA. Even under your idea that Obama is a job-killer --- maybe / maybe not ---- the sheer job loss in the United States in lower end jobs is a bit too enormous to be attributed alone to one person, especially when many other countries have faced the same.
Or maybe not. Maybe you are the only one who is real and when you close your eyes or turn your head, everything is just roughly preserved.
....
Or even worse, maybe the lost information only seems accurate because your memory is intentionally fuzzy with the details.
What was the color of the last 5 cars you saw? Can't remember? Hmmmm
Awesome insight!
Note = "What kind of numbering system should we be using so that things like Pi or the squareroot of 2 or 2/3 aren't infinitely long? Thanks!"
What is the definition of "not a simulation".
If I am in a simulation and it seems real to me, what is the opposite of this?