Do you want to save power - here's an easy solution, make devices that actually TURN OFF. Most TVs, DVD players and other electrical devices use almost as much power when they are "off" as they do when they are on. While some devices always need to be on (e.g. tivos, routers, etc...) most would work just as well if there was a way to turn them fully off.
Google has a long history in buying companies and letting the fruit rot on the vine. Look at Google Pages..... at first it seems like a great idea for Google.... free web hosting that's integrated with all of Google's services. Unfortunately, the only way to create pages is with Google's Page Creator, which sucks.
Technology changes the balance of power..... giving it to the common man. Brin is advocating for people to give up privacy, he's saying that modern technology is making it so cheap and easy for people to record and share information that people are going to spy on each other all the time and maybe that's not such a bad thing. If we try to ban this tech then only the rich and powerful will be able to do the spying..... but if we keep it we gain a powerful weapon against the powerful.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant; electric light the best policeman."
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light."
"The plant that grows in darkness and wilts in the light give forth bitter fruit."
Bruce seems to be missing the point. Technology is giving the common man power to snoop on the powerful and the only defense the powerful have is to hide behind privacy laws and other form of censorship. Imagine if everyone wore devices that recorded everything they saw or heard - police would never be able to abuse their power like the cop Perino tried to do with Crespo. That kids MP3 recording saved his ass - what if everyone used that tech everyday? Privacy would disappear but so would many of the abuses of power that Bruce seems so worried about.
Want to fight back? Buy a cheap laptop off eBay and fill it with the most dangerous viruses and trojans you can find. If you don't know how to do that just visit a lot of Russian porn sites without patches or a firewall.
While it's all well and good to be careful of your own online identity and to never use your real name in the end it's all rather pointless if you have friends. I write about my friends online all the time and frequently post pictures of us with all sorts of searchable meta-tag information.
Personally, I don't see the appeal in digital cable. It costs more, requires me to have a cable box, and suffers from pixalization. To me it just seems like a scam for the cable companies to offer me more useless stations at a higher cost. Now if digital cable meant HD too I'd understand why people might be interested but subcribing to HD channels is usually an additional fee added onto the increased digital cable fees, which does not even count the box fees.
Analog cable and a Tivo with lifetime service (buy one on eBay). That's the way to go.
I'd think that would be a better choice..... YouTube is nice but I want to be able to download the lectures and watch them on my own time. Not everyone has 24/7 high-speed internet access. I'd love to have high quality videos that I can watch offline.... converting YouTube flash videos to another format for offline storage is going to be annoying.
The secret shame of the scientific community is that statistical analysis is the foundation of all good research but few Ph.D programs offer more than a single semester worth of train in the subject. Truth is, training in statistical analysis should start in grade school but I doubt that will happen any time soon. One solution is dropping high school and college requirements of calculus and replace them with a year of statistics, which would be useful to more students.....
1) OpenDNS - block a lot of phishing and adult sites before it even reaches their computer. 2) Get them an iMac - it's simple to use and most of the hacking world does not care about MacOS. Plus, unlike Linux there's a lot of support documentation on the net that a user can tap into (and understand). 3) Firefox - Safari is nice but Firefox has more ad-blocking and anti-phishing extensions that make the Internet a safer place. 4) Gmail - ditching Outlook will save you a world of hurt.
Why the uses mentioned are interesting wake me once they develop chips that allow a person to augment their memory. Even if the technology never gets to the point where you can download info or skill sets directly into your brain I can see the benefit of supplementing the natural storage capacity of the human brain with such devices.
The stalkers of the world will always have the upper hand as long as we try and keep the genie in the bottle. We need to make the technology a two-way street and get rid of the myth of privacy. I don't have a problem giving away my personal infomation as long as I know who has access to it and I'm able to get the same back in kind. A battered woman is more empowered by knowing where her abusive ex-husband is at all times or knowing when he accesses information about her than she is by going undercover and into hiding.
If you put $1 in the machine and got a $10 credit, I should think that the user would figure out that there's more going on than them just being "lucky".
Maybe not.... I've never played video slots but there are a lot of arcade games were the relationship between money and credits is not 1:1. I could see a lot of people believing that one dollar buys them ten pull of the lever on a video slot machine.
And, In the end,/.'s last comment before being completely shutdown will be a resounding "we told you so." But, it won't matter, because no one will ever read it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Slashdot's last comment will be something along the lines of "Last Post!"...
There's never been a power given to a federal agency that its members haven't immediately sought to abuse. But the same goes for state, local, federal government of all stripes, insurance agencies, organized religions, etc. It's human nature. Power will be abused so it's just common sense to restrict it as much as possible.
To restrict something requires the use of force (i.e. power). Who are you going to trust to wield that power, the government? A better idea is to give the power to everybody so as to eliminate the power imbalances that lead to the abuse you speak of.
"Privacy is dead, deal with it," Sun MicroSystems CEO Scott McNealy
However, "If any citizen can read the billionaire's tax return or the politician's bank statement, if no thug - or policeman - can ever be sure his actions are unobserved, if no government agency or corporate boardroom is safe from whistle-blowers, we'll have something precious to help make up for lost privacy: freedom," author David Brin.
The fact that you think celebrities and politicaians are good examples of the rich and powerful that I'm talking about just goes to show how much anonymity they truly have. Now.... while a free media is a good check it does not go nearly far enough.... they are handcuffed by privacy laws and their own corporate interests. Give the legal protection of the press to everyone and maybe we'll start seeing some progress.
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Do you want to save power - here's an easy solution, make devices that actually TURN OFF. Most TVs, DVD players and other electrical devices use almost as much power when they are "off" as they do when they are on. While some devices always need to be on (e.g. tivos, routers, etc...) most would work just as well if there was a way to turn them fully off.
Because Iran has not attack any of it's neighbors for hundred of years.
Google has a long history in buying companies and letting the fruit rot on the vine. Look at Google Pages..... at first it seems like a great idea for Google.... free web hosting that's integrated with all of Google's services. Unfortunately, the only way to create pages is with Google's Page Creator, which sucks.
If you're tired just find a motel and go to fucking sleep!
Technology changes the balance of power..... giving it to the common man. Brin is advocating for people to give up privacy, he's saying that modern technology is making it so cheap and easy for people to record and share information that people are going to spy on each other all the time and maybe that's not such a bad thing. If we try to ban this tech then only the rich and powerful will be able to do the spying..... but if we keep it we gain a powerful weapon against the powerful.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant; electric light the best policeman."
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light."
"The plant that grows in darkness and wilts in the light give forth bitter fruit."
Bruce seems to be missing the point. Technology is giving the common man power to snoop on the powerful and the only defense the powerful have is to hide behind privacy laws and other form of censorship. Imagine if everyone wore devices that recorded everything they saw or heard - police would never be able to abuse their power like the cop Perino tried to do with Crespo. That kids MP3 recording saved his ass - what if everyone used that tech everyday? Privacy would disappear but so would many of the abuses of power that Bruce seems so worried about.
It's technology like this that is going to kick Big Brother right in the nads!
This is old news. Lots of worms are in the wild that infect a machine and then close off it's vulnerabilities so others are unable to exploit it.
The evil, nasty government is going to know my shoe size, earlobe shape and eye colour!
Want to fight back? Buy a cheap laptop off eBay and fill it with the most dangerous viruses and trojans you can find. If you don't know how to do that just visit a lot of Russian porn sites without patches or a firewall.
While it's all well and good to be careful of your own online identity and to never use your real name in the end it's all rather pointless if you have friends. I write about my friends online all the time and frequently post pictures of us with all sorts of searchable meta-tag information.
I wouldn't be able to tell because I'd be dead!
And why should you care?
Because I'd be dead!
Why is this a bad thing? What horrible, evil thing will the government be able to do if they have my fingerprints in a national database?
Personally, I don't see the appeal in digital cable. It costs more, requires me to have a cable box, and suffers from pixalization. To me it just seems like a scam for the cable companies to offer me more useless stations at a higher cost. Now if digital cable meant HD too I'd understand why people might be interested but subcribing to HD channels is usually an additional fee added onto the increased digital cable fees, which does not even count the box fees.
Analog cable and a Tivo with lifetime service (buy one on eBay). That's the way to go.
I'd think that would be a better choice..... YouTube is nice but I want to be able to download the lectures and watch them on my own time. Not everyone has 24/7 high-speed internet access. I'd love to have high quality videos that I can watch offline.... converting YouTube flash videos to another format for offline storage is going to be annoying.
The secret shame of the scientific community is that statistical analysis is the foundation of all good research but few Ph.D programs offer more than a single semester worth of train in the subject. Truth is, training in statistical analysis should start in grade school but I doubt that will happen any time soon. One solution is dropping high school and college requirements of calculus and replace them with a year of statistics, which would be useful to more students.....
Four thing.....
1) OpenDNS - block a lot of phishing and adult sites before it even reaches their computer.
2) Get them an iMac - it's simple to use and most of the hacking world does not care about MacOS. Plus, unlike Linux there's a lot of support documentation on the net that a user can tap into (and understand).
3) Firefox - Safari is nice but Firefox has more ad-blocking and anti-phishing extensions that make the Internet a safer place.
4) Gmail - ditching Outlook will save you a world of hurt.
Why the uses mentioned are interesting wake me once they develop chips that allow a person to augment their memory. Even if the technology never gets to the point where you can download info or skill sets directly into your brain I can see the benefit of supplementing the natural storage capacity of the human brain with such devices.
The stalkers of the world will always have the upper hand as long as we try and keep the genie in the bottle. We need to make the technology a two-way street and get rid of the myth of privacy. I don't have a problem giving away my personal infomation as long as I know who has access to it and I'm able to get the same back in kind. A battered woman is more empowered by knowing where her abusive ex-husband is at all times or knowing when he accesses information about her than she is by going undercover and into hiding.
Maybe not.... I've never played video slots but there are a lot of arcade games were the relationship between money and credits is not 1:1. I could see a lot of people believing that one dollar buys them ten pull of the lever on a video slot machine.
And, In the end, /.'s last comment before being completely shutdown will be a resounding "we told you so." But, it won't matter, because no one will ever read it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Slashdot's last comment will be something along the lines of "Last Post!"...
To restrict something requires the use of force (i.e. power). Who are you going to trust to wield that power, the government? A better idea is to give the power to everybody so as to eliminate the power imbalances that lead to the abuse you speak of.
"Privacy is dead, deal with it," Sun MicroSystems CEO Scott McNealy
However, "If any citizen can read the billionaire's tax return or the politician's bank statement, if no thug - or policeman - can ever be sure his actions are unobserved, if no government agency or corporate boardroom is safe from whistle-blowers, we'll have something precious to help make up for lost privacy: freedom," author David Brin.
Sure... as long as I can know the history and stats of all the cars he's trying to sell me.
The fact that you think celebrities and politicaians are good examples of the rich and powerful that I'm talking about just goes to show how much anonymity they truly have. Now.... while a free media is a good check it does not go nearly far enough.... they are handcuffed by privacy laws and their own corporate interests. Give the legal protection of the press to everyone and maybe we'll start seeing some progress.