true, snapping a photo will forever be simple. but the goal should be to remove the incentive to actually do this. hopefully once the big-data bubble bursts, or if the economics of advertising continues the race to the bottom it's in, companies won't feel the need to monetize us like a herd of cattle. (i can dream, right?)
my idea for the ideal legislation on this matter: fuck all. our government shouldn't be wasting it's time on trivial shit like this. if there is a market for this kind of ability, let the carriers and subscribers sort it out.
that's why you should use a safety razor, the blades are dirt cheap and there's at least 10 brands that will work with the standard double edged blade.
sodastream does something similar to this with their CO2 containers -- using non-standard valve connectors to prevent people from refilling their CO2 tanks =/
yeah, i've setup Obi boxes for a few family members, and it's one of the few 'set and forget' tech products out there. The amazing part is the cost, for something so cheap, to have it work *well* is a fucking rarity.
obi boxes let you you use your house's POTS wiring with google voice. It's quite a nice product, at least until Google voice becomes more expensive than free -- though faxing over it can be kind of hit or miss.
well, who knows if we could selectivity breed plants for their filtration ability? For Example, Green Revolution produced dramatically altered cereal grain plants (shorter, larger seeds) .
Find something that grows quickly, and can filter water, and it might be scaleable on an industrial level
Historically? Probably because how recently 'germs' were discovered to be the cause of these diseases, Recent history? Not much money in researching simple, easy to use technologies like this.
Well, look at what Google is already collecting (search,email,chat,social networking,GPS/location etc), and the additional types of data they are after. This data is valuable to a lot of different groups, and not all of them online ad merchants.
So I think it's naive to assume that selling to advertisers will remain their main 'niche'. Everything from insurance companies to 3 letter agencies find what they gather interesting. Who knows what kind privacy destroying monstrosities will appear in the future?
You are the product they sell (or at least every scrap of data they can collect about you). You can be monetized in far more ways than simply a pair of eyeballs to provide advertisers.
a tighter integration with the internet? call me a luddite but.. return to sender on that one. at 31, and working in IT, yet i find myself looking for ways to disengage from the internet/social media/email/IM whatever.. in my free time.
I do see something like glass being great for military, fire, police (especially police). Basically having a HUD that could show navigation/GPS overlaid with fellow soldiers or objectives (hey, just like FPS games!?) would be valuable. Or recording everything that is said/done during an interaction with the public would be great for keeping police and subjects honest after the fact. (assuming there was some kind of verification that the audio/video wasn't tampered with.).
that was completely intentional.. the goal was to build mood and suspense through the lack of visibility.. they accomplished this. things like the 'duct-tape' mod kind of ruined the atmosphere:(
because 'cholesterol' in food being bad is similarly rooted in outdated 1950's thinking that doesn't hold up. Fun fact: your brain is basically made out of the stuff. Fun fact 2: nearly every cell in your body is capable of making it. why would you assume A) it's bad B) your dietary intake somehow magically appears in your arteries?
Comcast was allowed to 'close the loop' by purchasing NBC (content provider + cable company/ISP)... I fail to see why our regulatory bodies would even pretend to do their jobs and block something like this.
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why would a company use something like MSSQL over MySQL (or any other open sourced db engine?) I've always wondered this. :(
yeah, maybe bail bondsmen will do the same thing to find fugitives ? =/
true, snapping a photo will forever be simple. but the goal should be to remove the incentive to actually do this. hopefully once the big-data bubble bursts, or if the economics of advertising continues the race to the bottom it's in, companies won't feel the need to monetize us like a herd of cattle. (i can dream, right?)
Hah, the left sticking to their guns? :) wrong choice of metaphor sir.
my idea for the ideal legislation on this matter: fuck all. our government shouldn't be wasting it's time on trivial shit like this. if there is a market for this kind of ability, let the carriers and subscribers sort it out.
the gevalia conventions perhaps?
that's why you should use a safety razor, the blades are dirt cheap and there's at least 10 brands that will work with the standard double edged blade.
sodastream does something similar to this with their CO2 containers -- using non-standard valve connectors to prevent people from refilling their CO2 tanks =/
is it the motrin, or the caffeine in your motrin? :)
yeah, i've setup Obi boxes for a few family members, and it's one of the few 'set and forget' tech products out there. The amazing part is the cost, for something so cheap, to have it work *well* is a fucking rarity.
That sounds like an interesting TV show -- bean counters gone wild.
obi boxes let you you use your house's POTS wiring with google voice. It's quite a nice product, at least until Google voice becomes more expensive than free -- though faxing over it can be kind of hit or miss.
well, who knows if we could selectivity breed plants for their filtration ability? For Example, Green Revolution produced dramatically altered cereal grain plants (shorter, larger seeds) .
Find something that grows quickly, and can filter water, and it might be scaleable on an industrial level
Historically? Probably because how recently 'germs' were discovered to be the cause of these diseases, Recent history? Not much money in researching simple, easy to use technologies like this.
Well, look at what Google is already collecting (search,email,chat,social networking,GPS/location etc), and the additional types of data they are after. This data is valuable to a lot of different groups, and not all of them online ad merchants.
So I think it's naive to assume that selling to advertisers will remain their main 'niche'. Everything from insurance companies to 3 letter agencies find what they gather interesting. Who knows what kind privacy destroying monstrosities will appear in the future?
You are the product they sell (or at least every scrap of data they can collect about you). You can be monetized in far more ways than simply a pair of eyeballs to provide advertisers.
It's naive to assume that advertisers will remain google's largest customers.
I do see something like glass being great for military, fire, police (especially police). Basically having a HUD that could show navigation/GPS overlaid with fellow soldiers or objectives (hey, just like FPS games!?) would be valuable. Or recording everything that is said/done during an interaction with the public would be great for keeping police and subjects honest after the fact. (assuming there was some kind of verification that the audio/video wasn't tampered with.).
well considering the length of the game, there's roughly infinity situations for that to occur. =(
Canada should be very, very scared.
that was completely intentional.. the goal was to build mood and suspense through the lack of visibility.. they accomplished this. things like the 'duct-tape' mod kind of ruined the atmosphere :(
because 'cholesterol' in food being bad is similarly rooted in outdated 1950's thinking that doesn't hold up. Fun fact: your brain is basically made out of the stuff. Fun fact 2: nearly every cell in your body is capable of making it. why would you assume A) it's bad B) your dietary intake somehow magically appears in your arteries?
and thus, the only time in the history of warcraft II that someone actually won playing as human.
or if you looked at his user name, he might have created the account due to the slashdot beta fiasco/soap opera?
that's just being a pedantic little twit.
Comcast was allowed to 'close the loop' by purchasing NBC (content provider + cable company/ISP)... I fail to see why our regulatory bodies would even pretend to do their jobs and block something like this.