A gun that shoots a big net is the obvious answer. If you drag the thing to earth then you get to use it for parts.
ALTHOUGH -- drone v drone fighting would be kinda cool. Way better than those kites with sharp wires trying to cut each other loose.
This is far, far better than what I was afraid this article was going to be about. The first image that popped into my head was "hunters" taking out licenses to use drones to seek out and bag big game.
Unfortunately, I bet that will actually be a "sport" somewhere down the line.
Me too! It is a bit hilarious that Google is obviously still trying to quash scroogle years later by trademarking the name, as if they would like to erase it from history.
Instead, everytime I hear the word I think of scroogle, and wonder if there is a good way to bring something like that back.
I use DuckDuckGo (after trying many of the others like PrivateLee, etc.) but I'm really not happy with it. Their search engine disregards a lot of standard searching techniques. For instance, if I search for something "in quotes" they will return the same words both in and outside of the phrase, thus rendering the results useless.
What I would like to see is a browser/scraper that sits on my own computer (not the cloud or a web server) so I can have complete control over it, set the way results are shown, etc. as I see fit. It would of course have to get results by scraping google, bing, etc.
Speaking of China, wouldn't the rootless cosmopolitans in question just pick up and move their campuses somewhere drier --- such as the next emerging superpower? When your business is the movement of bits, why should you care about the fate of some particular spot on the earth, especially when it would be very expensive to do so? It would also be a betrayal of the tech elite's emerging neoliberal ideology to prioritize anything over profit, especially the environment, "communities", and above all, the fate of San Francisco.
This is more like an inevitable progression. Of course cops will wear google glasses. Don't tell me google wasn't aware of police and the military as a major market for these. They are the ultimate and most significant target market for these devices. Geeks may play with them and have "fun" for a while but in the end these will be exposed for what they are, a surveillance device that centralizes power in the hands of those who already have it.
Score another point for the Doctor. So just what evil force is it that runs Facebook? The cybermen?
The Daleks are out because we already know they are behind apple. Witness the iDaleks of the new series, and the fact that the late chairman of apple was obviously Davros himself:
http://cheezburger.com/4659524352
What is more likely is that these apps encourage people to use cars more. Especially the ones that pay drivers to work like taxi drivers. This just puts more drivers on the road, driving empty to pick up passengers.
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A gun that shoots a big net is the obvious answer. If you drag the thing to earth then you get to use it for parts. ALTHOUGH -- drone v drone fighting would be kinda cool. Way better than those kites with sharp wires trying to cut each other loose.
This is far, far better than what I was afraid this article was going to be about. The first image that popped into my head was "hunters" taking out licenses to use drones to seek out and bag big game. Unfortunately, I bet that will actually be a "sport" somewhere down the line.
I knew it was true all along if Gibbon believed in it.
Me too! It is a bit hilarious that Google is obviously still trying to quash scroogle years later by trademarking the name, as if they would like to erase it from history. Instead, everytime I hear the word I think of scroogle, and wonder if there is a good way to bring something like that back. I use DuckDuckGo (after trying many of the others like PrivateLee, etc.) but I'm really not happy with it. Their search engine disregards a lot of standard searching techniques. For instance, if I search for something "in quotes" they will return the same words both in and outside of the phrase, thus rendering the results useless. What I would like to see is a browser/scraper that sits on my own computer (not the cloud or a web server) so I can have complete control over it, set the way results are shown, etc. as I see fit. It would of course have to get results by scraping google, bing, etc.
Speaking of China, wouldn't the rootless cosmopolitans in question just pick up and move their campuses somewhere drier --- such as the next emerging superpower? When your business is the movement of bits, why should you care about the fate of some particular spot on the earth, especially when it would be very expensive to do so? It would also be a betrayal of the tech elite's emerging neoliberal ideology to prioritize anything over profit, especially the environment, "communities", and above all, the fate of San Francisco.
This is more like an inevitable progression. Of course cops will wear google glasses. Don't tell me google wasn't aware of police and the military as a major market for these. They are the ultimate and most significant target market for these devices. Geeks may play with them and have "fun" for a while but in the end these will be exposed for what they are, a surveillance device that centralizes power in the hands of those who already have it.
Maybe some of them will "disappear"...
See, its already been done with just two words.
Score another point for the Doctor. So just what evil force is it that runs Facebook? The cybermen? The Daleks are out because we already know they are behind apple. Witness the iDaleks of the new series, and the fact that the late chairman of apple was obviously Davros himself: http://cheezburger.com/4659524352
What is more likely is that these apps encourage people to use cars more. Especially the ones that pay drivers to work like taxi drivers. This just puts more drivers on the road, driving empty to pick up passengers.