She have already too much problems with money and want that have problems with alcohol now?
But the best solution would be going that road if the apps runs under wine, or there are already open source programs (EyePACS?) that do most if not all of what she needs.
The idea is to have high res cameras to be able to catch everyone, everywhere, guilty of something or not. Will be like checking up in foursquare every place you go. Or at least that is the idea they have. False positives will make life very interesting in the US.
Maybe that cabinet dissapeared by itself, once discovered. Skynet anyone?
A single spy camera don't imply 1984, no single water drop can be blamed for the flood. The rest of the simptoms, of course, goes straight into Brave New World, circa 1984.
More than just Scratch, why not the full Sugar experience? You can put it in a usb stick or put it as an alternate desktop manager if you already use linux. Here in Uruguay (where the language is spanish) is what school kids get with the project Ceibal, and that includes, already localized, Logo (TurtleArt) and Scratch.
And don't focus on programming, at least at the start. Trying to do animations in drawings will be enough motivation for them to understand the basics of programming while they have fun.
Full transparency. At all cost. For all the government and related sectors. That the answer for the old question "who watches the watchers?": all the citizens.
With the availability of digital copies, movies must start to sell experiences more than just images/sound that you can have already in your home tv or computer, with only the friends you want, and at your own pace. Big screens, good sound, 3D, and then this, could convince (if is well used, at least) people to go to movies instead of buying, watching them on cable or just downloading them for free.
It won't change. There is no space for a change in the trend when the most of the places for coordinate them (or that could disclose that it is happening) are under tight surveillance, and the remaining free/secure spaces are becoming outlawed. And most people are not aware or not care that they traded freedom for relative safety (at least until is their turn), they think they have a democracy in US, but it's just Lesterland
What worries me is how all of this spills over all the rest of the world. If you think US care little about the right of their citizens, you should see how just not care at all about others.
In fact, no matter the crime, even you can invent or fake it, what matter is in the end to have an excuse to strip those rights and liberties, who is in charge here after all?
How that stability is reached? Would be the same that paying with Apple or Google shares, as they don't vary so much, but markets could make big changes (like in 2008). In the other hand, after printing trillons of dollars 5 years ago it should had dropped of value by a big percent, and didn't (pointing more in the direction of fiat currency), instead of the natural slow pace of mining bitcoins,
And btw, tautologies always work, no matter what you put there.
Lets put it this way. Already the US security agencies have access, and is actively using it, to google/facebook/twitter and so on information, no need to get into the encrypted communication. But what about other sites, specially the ones not hosted in US but that could use certificates to encrypt communication? If don't have already pretty broad (i.e. to *.com) or reissued certificates, will start to ask for them pretty soon.
In the other hand, not trusting any certificates from any US based company will show almost any secure site as untrusted, being intercepted or not. Would you use your credit card, put personal data, or download binaries to execute on a site with a big red warning telling you that the site could be fake? There is no middle ground, or can't be trusted, or can, there is no space to say "it can be examined or modified as anything that goes thru something US related"
Considering how the US government is positioned for playing MITM games, and that is putting laws to require information and actions from internet providers of critical services, is tempting at the very least. But having such aggresive player in the middle of the field maybe is better to just close your eyes and just put a token warning in a page tham trying to fix it, just will put more in evidence how broken is everything now.
I wouldnt blame them if after being innocent, kidnapped, moved to another country, tortured for years (and see how they tortured childrens along with him), and then released they would be willing to participate in attacks. The best way to ensure to have enemies is to create them.
Playng an MP3 that say "I have a bomb and plan to use it" as soon as the GPS detect that you are in an airport could work as well as killer feature. In fact, that would be a nice cyberwar threat, to plant an app that does just that in a lot of vulnerable cellphones.
Thats the main feature that i miss from the N900 in my N9. The touchscreen keyboard is very bad, or could use swipe, but still feel like wearing boxing gloves when using it compared with what used to do with the sliding keyboard.
And if well in console have a translucent keyboard to not use screen state while typing, what is still not translucent are my fingers. There are some tests on transparent screens to use the back of the cellphone as keyboard or to interact without putting your hand in the middle, that could be one the kind of innovations that could come in a near future... but still, won't be the tactile feedback that a hardware keyboard give.
Simply adding existing touchscreens to phones is not 'innovation' neither. But still meant a big deal for a lot of people. The right sensors could have a lot of extra meaning, despite that don't imply really new technology.
Global sea level rise won't be very abrupt. What is abrupt is flooded cities because a single storm (you have several to pick last months, no need to go back to Katrina), or most crops in a region wasted because a heavy rain or hailstorms. Then people die, starve, or get poor. But most won't move from there, tradition, religion, having the graves of their parents or whatever will keep them there, even if those isolated incidents becomes common. By then the alternative places to where they could move will be already taken out, either flooded with people or just owned by speculators. Also, you don't take an structure that was build and self adjusted in centuries to support a lot of people and just rebuilt somewhere else holding the same amount.
Yes, more land will be available, and will eventually be fertile, but during all the transition and changes and storms and whatever you must keep feeding a lot of people. And if well we were able to cope with previous transitions, with far more population it will be harder or with more impact on human lives. It could be ok for you, as long as you are not in the other side of the fence.
Before Greenland becomes arable, you should be able to figure what yo do with the hundreds of millons of people that will be displaced as the countries/cities they live today, and where they get their food, becomes underwater. You know, big cities and fertile lands usually are close to rivers and coasts. And if that is not enough, think in the lost crops all around the world because the weather will not be as stable, and much more extreme, as it used to be.
Change evolution for adaptation and natural selection, is not that evolution means improvement (as in faster, smarter, more complex, etc), just that what results is more adapted for the new environment, or the rough stages going toward it. If the change is fast enough, wont be a lot of margin for adaptation, and could result in few enough survivors that could end in full extintion. it almost happened to us 70k years ago with the Toba supereruption when we wen't down to around 15000 humans.
Put it in this way, we (as in both of us) won't be around in 100 years. And at the current (and not far lower) growing rate, Earth won't be able to sustain the numbers of humans that should be around in 100 years, and that could mean that millons will die of starving or other ways, and that process could have ripples (several forms of war, diseases, revolutions, even the rich and powerful could be affected by it). Going to space won't save them neither, we wouldnt be able to send to space a significant portion of mankind. But we will have a backup, that is the only meaningful long term investment.
Of course, may be better to continue with business as usual, in the past a biological specie could had been the responsible of one of the biggest mass extintions, and we managed to evolve after that, with a bit of luck our dissapearance will free up space to for the evolution of truly intelligent beings here.
We need food crops? Is the easiest way to produce what our body needs, at least that don't need high technology, but is the most efficient? We could have genetic engineered bacteria to do that job (if patents don't get in the middle, that is part of the trouble we are getting into).
Regarding the other fisiological problems I'm not sure if we can't get artificial G thru rotation (at least in an efficient way, at that point), but radiation could be a problem (that may have a shitty solution).
Humans are not rational yet as species, right now what motivates most of the big things that happens is greed, not having a future. Maybe in some point we could mature as specie/culture/society, but as things are now, we are in danger, and what put us in risk won't change for long time.
And probably will be easier to colonize half of the solar system than change ourselves, the former could use greed to succeed (i.e. asteroid mining) while the former will have strong opposition in the sectors that drives us.
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She have already too much problems with money and want that have problems with alcohol now?
But the best solution would be going that road if the apps runs under wine, or there are already open source programs (EyePACS?) that do most if not all of what she needs.
The idea is to have high res cameras to be able to catch everyone, everywhere, guilty of something or not. Will be like checking up in foursquare every place you go. Or at least that is the idea they have. False positives will make life very interesting in the US.
At least they don't host your company data.
Maybe that cabinet dissapeared by itself, once discovered. Skynet anyone?
A single spy camera don't imply 1984, no single water drop can be blamed for the flood. The rest of the simptoms, of course, goes straight into Brave New World, circa 1984.
2015 is just around the corner. Anyway, not sure how good will look a DeLorean with one of those.
And thats pretty worthy, taking into account that 9.999999% of its uptime, hey, is like 7 9s!
More than just Scratch, why not the full Sugar experience? You can put it in a usb stick or put it as an alternate desktop manager if you already use linux. Here in Uruguay (where the language is spanish) is what school kids get with the project Ceibal, and that includes, already localized, Logo (TurtleArt) and Scratch.
And don't focus on programming, at least at the start. Trying to do animations in drawings will be enough motivation for them to understand the basics of programming while they have fun.
Full transparency. At all cost. For all the government and related sectors. That the answer for the old question "who watches the watchers?": all the citizens.
With the availability of digital copies, movies must start to sell experiences more than just images/sound that you can have already in your home tv or computer, with only the friends you want, and at your own pace. Big screens, good sound, 3D, and then this, could convince (if is well used, at least) people to go to movies instead of buying, watching them on cable or just downloading them for free.
It won't change. There is no space for a change in the trend when the most of the places for coordinate them (or that could disclose that it is happening) are under tight surveillance, and the remaining free/secure spaces are becoming outlawed. And most people are not aware or not care that they traded freedom for relative safety (at least until is their turn), they think they have a democracy in US, but it's just Lesterland
What worries me is how all of this spills over all the rest of the world. If you think US care little about the right of their citizens, you should see how just not care at all about others.
In fact, no matter the crime, even you can invent or fake it, what matter is in the end to have an excuse to strip those rights and liberties, who is in charge here after all?
How that stability is reached? Would be the same that paying with Apple or Google shares, as they don't vary so much, but markets could make big changes (like in 2008). In the other hand, after printing trillons of dollars 5 years ago it should had dropped of value by a big percent, and didn't (pointing more in the direction of fiat currency), instead of the natural slow pace of mining bitcoins,
And btw, tautologies always work, no matter what you put there.
Lets put it this way. Already the US security agencies have access, and is actively using it, to google/facebook/twitter and so on information, no need to get into the encrypted communication. But what about other sites, specially the ones not hosted in US but that could use certificates to encrypt communication? If don't have already pretty broad (i.e. to *.com) or reissued certificates, will start to ask for them pretty soon.
In the other hand, not trusting any certificates from any US based company will show almost any secure site as untrusted, being intercepted or not. Would you use your credit card, put personal data, or download binaries to execute on a site with a big red warning telling you that the site could be fake? There is no middle ground, or can't be trusted, or can, there is no space to say "it can be examined or modified as anything that goes thru something US related"
Considering how the US government is positioned for playing MITM games, and that is putting laws to require information and actions from internet providers of critical services, is tempting at the very least. But having such aggresive player in the middle of the field maybe is better to just close your eyes and just put a token warning in a page tham trying to fix it, just will put more in evidence how broken is everything now.
I wouldnt blame them if after being innocent, kidnapped, moved to another country, tortured for years (and see how they tortured childrens along with him), and then released they would be willing to participate in attacks. The best way to ensure to have enemies is to create them.
Playng an MP3 that say "I have a bomb and plan to use it" as soon as the GPS detect that you are in an airport could work as well as killer feature. In fact, that would be a nice cyberwar threat, to plant an app that does just that in a lot of vulnerable cellphones.
Thats the main feature that i miss from the N900 in my N9. The touchscreen keyboard is very bad, or could use swipe, but still feel like wearing boxing gloves when using it compared with what used to do with the sliding keyboard.
And if well in console have a translucent keyboard to not use screen state while typing, what is still not translucent are my fingers. There are some tests on transparent screens to use the back of the cellphone as keyboard or to interact without putting your hand in the middle, that could be one the kind of innovations that could come in a near future... but still, won't be the tactile feedback that a hardware keyboard give.
Using humans as energy source would make them usable for extended periods of time, and won't be a great innovation neither, Matrix did it before.
Simply adding existing touchscreens to phones is not 'innovation' neither. But still meant a big deal for a lot of people. The right sensors could have a lot of extra meaning, despite that don't imply really new technology.
Global sea level rise won't be very abrupt. What is abrupt is flooded cities because a single storm (you have several to pick last months, no need to go back to Katrina), or most crops in a region wasted because a heavy rain or hailstorms. Then people die, starve, or get poor. But most won't move from there, tradition, religion, having the graves of their parents or whatever will keep them there, even if those isolated incidents becomes common. By then the alternative places to where they could move will be already taken out, either flooded with people or just owned by speculators. Also, you don't take an structure that was build and self adjusted in centuries to support a lot of people and just rebuilt somewhere else holding the same amount.
Yes, more land will be available, and will eventually be fertile, but during all the transition and changes and storms and whatever you must keep feeding a lot of people. And if well we were able to cope with previous transitions, with far more population it will be harder or with more impact on human lives. It could be ok for you, as long as you are not in the other side of the fence.
Before Greenland becomes arable, you should be able to figure what yo do with the hundreds of millons of people that will be displaced as the countries/cities they live today, and where they get their food, becomes underwater. You know, big cities and fertile lands usually are close to rivers and coasts. And if that is not enough, think in the lost crops all around the world because the weather will not be as stable, and much more extreme, as it used to be.
Change evolution for adaptation and natural selection, is not that evolution means improvement (as in faster, smarter, more complex, etc), just that what results is more adapted for the new environment, or the rough stages going toward it. If the change is fast enough, wont be a lot of margin for adaptation, and could result in few enough survivors that could end in full extintion. it almost happened to us 70k years ago with the Toba supereruption when we wen't down to around 15000 humans.
Put it in this way, we (as in both of us) won't be around in 100 years. And at the current (and not far lower) growing rate, Earth won't be able to sustain the numbers of humans that should be around in 100 years, and that could mean that millons will die of starving or other ways, and that process could have ripples (several forms of war, diseases, revolutions, even the rich and powerful could be affected by it). Going to space won't save them neither, we wouldnt be able to send to space a significant portion of mankind. But we will have a backup, that is the only meaningful long term investment.
Of course, may be better to continue with business as usual, in the past a biological specie could had been the responsible of one of the biggest mass extintions, and we managed to evolve after that, with a bit of luck our dissapearance will free up space to for the evolution of truly intelligent beings here.
We need food crops? Is the easiest way to produce what our body needs, at least that don't need high technology, but is the most efficient? We could have genetic engineered bacteria to do that job (if patents don't get in the middle, that is part of the trouble we are getting into).
Regarding the other fisiological problems I'm not sure if we can't get artificial G thru rotation (at least in an efficient way, at that point), but radiation could be a problem (that may have a shitty solution).
Humans are not rational yet as species, right now what motivates most of the big things that happens is greed, not having a future. Maybe in some point we could mature as specie/culture/society, but as things are now, we are in danger, and what put us in risk won't change for long time.
And probably will be easier to colonize half of the solar system than change ourselves, the former could use greed to succeed (i.e. asteroid mining) while the former will have strong opposition in the sectors that drives us.