I would like that you carry a portable device that is aware about you and your environment, that don't just could know i.e. your gps position or the speed at which you are walking, but everything that is around that could interest you, ready to point that out, inform more about it, or do something to eventually retrieve it later,like saving video/photos/sounds. Cellphones are going in that direction, even if are still far, at the very least can't yet include the needed intelligence, base data and storage, so must go to the cloud for what can do about that still.
In a sci-fi world, that would connect with Multivac,keep the data there, and let that sentient computer do what is better for you. But in this one, this is going to Google, and if well that would not be as bad as going to Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one or several US government agencies (no matter of which country you are citizen), is still a company that must do what is profitable, and that is still under the laws of a country not exactly respectful about people privacy (and that could put in jail tourists because they repeated a tv joke)
So no, even if we trust that their intentions are the best, we can't trust in governments that them must obey.
In Delany's Babel-17, you become an unaware saboteur just for learning an artificial language. There are languages that have no word for time, or for big numbers, maybe even for fun. That aren't just different ways to express yourself, but how you see reality.
In 2015 we will be more aware that we don't have flying cars nor MrFusion than that we got near Pluto. When Doc Brown appears in his Delorean will be badly disappointed.
When you go to steal, you don't care about the library, you go right after the valuable things, like oil, and then leave to some other to care about the mess.
Now that they apparently have weapons of mass destruction they could be invaded, replaced their government with a pupp..., i mean, democratic leader, and put them in a modern world while oil or other natural resource is given to some friendly corporations. If you think you having a deja vu, dont worry, is just a glitch on the matrix.
Needs one kind of elite to innovate, and another kind of elite to monopolize, shut down, put trivial patents around that innovations or other "innovative" measures to avoid them to succeed.
Anyway, if things are as they seem to be (starting by no FTL), odds that ever a civilization travel to another solar system to meet another civilization are pretty low. Don't put as a goal meeting others. Exploring our solar system, not just for knowledge, but for resources, is a good excuse for going to space.
Regarding things like "meaning", "point", "goal" or whatever, there is no meaning in life, the universe and everything else, the meaning is in you. Things just happen, the universe don't care if we keep existing or not.
Sending from not DKIM/SPF authenticated servers will be somewhat deprecated. Some uses (like mail forwarding) will become a bit more complex, and so the requirements for putting a "working" (by their definition) mail server on internet.
Is not a "think on the children" (at least, not yet), but a "think on all those scammed people around". Some honest mails will become rejected, and some scamming will remain anyway.
With all the multinational unilateral laws coming from US like NDAA, catching scammers/spammers was never a priority. Maybe i won't agree that is good to extradite someone because breaking copyright laws, but some spammers/scammers really deserve to be sent to Guantanamo, waterboarding included.
So the way to fix the corrupt politicians is to corrupt them even more? Wasnt most of the western nations democracies, where the politicians are elected? There is where you should get rid of them. And if you have enough people behind that, you can even try to promote anticipated elections to get rid of them sooner.
At least that should work if enough people is aware and in a real democracy. US isn't by now, so there is no hope in that front.
In an unprecedent effort to unify measuring units between all countries, they are trying that countries that use the celcius system have the farenheit degrees. So won't be anymore that mess that "my country average temperature 20C or 67F", now it will be 67C and both measuring units will be united. Is all for peace.
considering how those laws are pushed to other countries, that rots all the world. Corrupt/retard politicians are everywhere, this screws badly americans, but is far worse for the other countries that accept those laws. Remember most of Europe accepting ACTA?
Seems that the future of USA is in trivial patents, copyrighting culture, making that lasting forever and pushing that to the rest of the world. Why develop if you already get paid if someone anywhere tries to use common sense to solve a problem in the only possible way?
Slashdot Mirror
From the people that used extra o's in Goooooogle to signal that there are more pages of search results.
I suppose that for certain people, adding o's is the plain text approach to add stars
Or this approach for secure passwords. You must make it hard to guess by other people or brute force approachs, not hard to remember .
I would like that you carry a portable device that is aware about you and your environment, that don't just could know i.e. your gps position or the speed at which you are walking, but everything that is around that could interest you, ready to point that out, inform more about it, or do something to eventually retrieve it later,like saving video/photos/sounds. Cellphones are going in that direction, even if are still far, at the very least can't yet include the needed intelligence, base data and storage, so must go to the cloud for what can do about that still.
In a sci-fi world, that would connect with Multivac,keep the data there, and let that sentient computer do what is better for you. But in this one, this is going to Google, and if well that would not be as bad as going to Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one or several US government agencies (no matter of which country you are citizen), is still a company that must do what is profitable, and that is still under the laws of a country not exactly respectful about people privacy (and that could put in jail tourists because they repeated a tv joke)
So no, even if we trust that their intentions are the best, we can't trust in governments that them must obey.
In Delany's Babel-17, you become an unaware saboteur just for learning an artificial language. There are languages that have no word for time, or for big numbers, maybe even for fun. That aren't just different ways to express yourself, but how you see reality.
Will them ban Discworld novels in all the country?
Or worse, sheeple!
In 2015 we will be more aware that we don't have flying cars nor MrFusion than that we got near Pluto. When Doc Brown appears in his Delorean will be badly disappointed.
When you go to steal, you don't care about the library, you go right after the valuable things, like oil, and then leave to some other to care about the mess.
Now that they apparently have weapons of mass destruction they could be invaded, replaced their government with a pupp..., i mean, democratic leader, and put them in a modern world while oil or other natural resource is given to some friendly corporations. If you think you having a deja vu, dont worry, is just a glitch on the matrix.
Contributing code, modules, fixes, and error reporting? There are a lot that probably does that, and is not a minor thing.
Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity
else the screen turning blue will be the last thing you see
... its time to go back to the basics, like doing spear attacks.
Needs one kind of elite to innovate, and another kind of elite to monopolize, shut down, put trivial patents around that innovations or other "innovative" measures to avoid them to succeed.
Another area where trivial patents, copyrights, company policies, government intervention and remote disabling could reign.
We can always serve as a warning.
Anyway, if things are as they seem to be (starting by no FTL), odds that ever a civilization travel to another solar system to meet another civilization are pretty low. Don't put as a goal meeting others. Exploring our solar system, not just for knowledge, but for resources, is a good excuse for going to space.
Regarding things like "meaning", "point", "goal" or whatever, there is no meaning in life, the universe and everything else, the meaning is in you. Things just happen, the universe don't care if we keep existing or not.
Sending from not DKIM/SPF authenticated servers will be somewhat deprecated. Some uses (like mail forwarding) will become a bit more complex, and so the requirements for putting a "working" (by their definition) mail server on internet.
Is not a "think on the children" (at least, not yet), but a "think on all those scammed people around". Some honest mails will become rejected, and some scamming will remain anyway.
With all the multinational unilateral laws coming from US like NDAA, catching scammers/spammers was never a priority. Maybe i won't agree that is good to extradite someone because breaking copyright laws, but some spammers/scammers really deserve to be sent to Guantanamo, waterboarding included.
Check the differences between today's Oakland vs yesterday's London.
So the way to fix the corrupt politicians is to corrupt them even more? Wasnt most of the western nations democracies, where the politicians are elected? There is where you should get rid of them. And if you have enough people behind that, you can even try to promote anticipated elections to get rid of them sooner.
At least that should work if enough people is aware and in a real democracy. US isn't by now, so there is no hope in that front.
In an unprecedent effort to unify measuring units between all countries, they are trying that countries that use the celcius system have the farenheit degrees. So won't be anymore that mess that "my country average temperature 20C or 67F", now it will be 67C and both measuring units will be united. Is all for peace.
That it is graphene could mean that could be no "holes" where microparticulates get stuck, as in physical filters.
considering how those laws are pushed to other countries, that rots all the world. Corrupt/retard politicians are everywhere, this screws badly americans, but is far worse for the other countries that accept those laws. Remember most of Europe accepting ACTA?
Seems that the future of USA is in trivial patents, copyrighting culture, making that lasting forever and pushing that to the rest of the world. Why develop if you already get paid if someone anywhere tries to use common sense to solve a problem in the only possible way?
So you could pass thru i.e. ocean or contaminated water and get fresh, drinkable, pure water on the other side? If that could scale could be great.
Enhance!