Hey... if you want to read my e-mails be my guest, just make sure I get access to yours. The only thing wrong with traditional surveillance is the imbalence of power between the watchers and the watched. However, new technology is starting to correct this imbalance. Instead of fighting against the tide we should strive to make a completely transparent society. Currently only the rich, powerful and crooked have the ability to peek behind your veil of "privacy".... let's work to turn this situation around. Go Google!
Don't you get it? The rich, powerful and well-connected already have the power to peer into your life and they always have. You don't have privacy, you just have the illusion of it. The only thing privacy laws do is to prevent us from spying on them. Better to get rid of these laws today because we can't win the privacy arms race....
The increasing availability and ease of access of information is making it increasingly difficult to get away with lying.
This is why I hope privacy will become a dirty word in the future. The rich, well-connected and crooked have always been able to invade our privacy.... privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them. However, technology is finally starting to level the playing field. What we need to do is encourage their use and stop lobbying for things like strong encryption, which only gives the illusion of privacy. The strongest cipher is useless if a fly on the wall records your password as you type it. Such methods only encourage an arms race that we cannot win.
Dude, your job is sweet! Do you really think a high-stress job with less pay and co-workers you hate is going to make you happy? Get a hobby, coach pee-wee football, volunteer with some open-source project but for dear God don't quit your job! No job is perfect but yours is damn close. If you can find fulfillment outside of your work then consider yourself one lucky son of a bitch.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing if I could track the cell phones of the people who are tracking me. I really don't see what's so bad about letting my boss track me as long as I'm able to follow him around. It's the imbalance of power that's the main problem with typical surveillance. Want to track my movements with a camera? Go ahead.... but only if I get to know who's watching me and I have the ability to watch them back. An open and transparent society can make the world both safe and free. As it is now the powerful, well-connected and criminal can invade your privacy any time they want... privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them.
Serious.... why would we want to save small town America? It's like asking if tech can save hunter and gatherers.... Small towns are a way of life that are dying out for a reason. What we should be doing is making the transition as painless as possible....
And thank God..... instead of trying to win a losing battle against privacy loss it would be better if we put our energies into making a completely transparent world. Information wants to be free, deal with it.
The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Living in a fishbowl can be a wonderful thing. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and civilized place.
The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. Build cheap RFID readers that everyone can own. If you want to read my e-mail that's fine by me as long as I get to read yours. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Living in a fishbowl canbe a wonderful thing. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
People.... this can be a good thing. The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. Build cheap RFID readers that everyone can own. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
It's entirely different to claim to believe in Jedi and
to claim to BE a Jedi. According to the books I've read and the movies, a Jedi
is capable of performing these actions. They all have their "talents" but
to be a Jedi you have to be able to manipulate the force in some tangible and
demonstrable way.
The water to wine thing doesn't hold. It's not a commonly held dogma
(leaving backwoods ministers from crazyville out) that Christians are given
controllable powers.
Not true.... the Bible clearly states that Christians have been endowed
with remarkable powers:
Mar 16:17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe;
In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover".
Luke 17:6 "If you have faith as small as a mustard
seed, you can say to this mulberry tree 'be uprooted and planted in the sea'
and it will obey you".
Of course.... I've never seen a Christian with such powers and according
to the Bible you can't be a Christain without being able to witness in such
a manner but that does not stop stupid people from calling themselves Christains
all the time. If some British wanker wants to call himself a Jedi yets lacks
the ability to control the Force, I say let him.
There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
Have you been living under a bloody rock? It's Pakistan.
How come we don't have something like the automatic machine guns that were used in Aliens? I think they'd be great in securing remote points from enemy filtration. All you need is a machine gun with a motion sensor and tracking software.....
No, it cannot be done at todays day in age, unless you want a really bad computer.
I mean, what do you want to do with the computer, just be able to turn it on?
Cause thats all you will be able to do with 100 dollars. Even for word processing,
you will need a decent size ram, hard drive, motherboard, ethernet port, case.
That alone is already at 200 dollars.
You don't need decent size ram, a super large hard drive or an ethernet port
for word processing.... unless by word processing you mean Microsoft Office.
I remember a great word processor called MultiScribe from BeagleWorks for the
Apple IIc that did everything that 95% of the public use Word for. Sure....
it was on a 5 1/4 disk that you had to flip over whenever you wanted to spell-check
but it was fast and didn't have Clippy.
If the rat's neural cells can control a virtual airplane in a virtual world how long do you think it will take for someone to connect a wireless robot to the mix? Having the neural cells control an actual machine in the real world seems to open up a lot of possibilities.
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Gee.... thanks Slashdot! Guess there's no reason for me to watch jeopardy anymore. First you tell me that the Lone Gunmen are dead hours before the show aires and now this! Thanks for nothing.....
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Hey... if you want to read my e-mails be my guest, just make sure I get access to yours. The only thing wrong with traditional surveillance is the imbalence of power between the watchers and the watched. However, new technology is starting to correct this imbalance. Instead of fighting against the tide we should strive to make a completely transparent society. Currently only the rich, powerful and crooked have the ability to peek behind your veil of "privacy".... let's work to turn this situation around. Go Google!
Don't you get it? The rich, powerful and well-connected already have the power to peer into your life and they always have. You don't have privacy, you just have the illusion of it. The only thing privacy laws do is to prevent us from spying on them. Better to get rid of these laws today because we can't win the privacy arms race....
The increasing availability and ease of access of information is making it increasingly difficult to get away with lying.
This is why I hope privacy will become a dirty word in the future. The rich, well-connected and crooked have always been able to invade our privacy.... privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them. However, technology is finally starting to level the playing field. What we need to do is encourage their use and stop lobbying for things like strong encryption, which only gives the illusion of privacy. The strongest cipher is useless if a fly on the wall records your password as you type it. Such methods only encourage an arms race that we cannot win.
Dude, your job is sweet! Do you really think a high-stress job with less pay and co-workers you hate is going to make you happy? Get a hobby, coach pee-wee football, volunteer with some open-source project but for dear God don't quit your job! No job is perfect but yours is damn close. If you can find fulfillment outside of your work then consider yourself one lucky son of a bitch.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing if I could track the cell phones of the people who are tracking me. I really don't see what's so bad about letting my boss track me as long as I'm able to follow him around. It's the imbalance of power that's the main problem with typical surveillance. Want to track my movements with a camera? Go ahead.... but only if I get to know who's watching me and I have the ability to watch them back. An open and transparent society can make the world both safe and free. As it is now the powerful, well-connected and criminal can invade your privacy any time they want... privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them.
Serious.... why would we want to save small town America? It's like asking if tech can save hunter and gatherers.... Small towns are a way of life that are dying out for a reason. What we should be doing is making the transition as painless as possible....
And thank God..... instead of trying to win a losing battle against privacy loss it would be better if we put our energies into making a completely transparent world. Information wants to be free, deal with it.
The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Living in a fishbowl can be a wonderful thing. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and civilized place.
Of course, a number of people suspect that the true model for Mona Lisa was Da Vinci himself. I wonder if the researchers accounted for this?
The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. Build cheap RFID readers that everyone can own. If you want to read my e-mail that's fine by me as long as I get to read yours. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Living in a fishbowl canbe a wonderful thing. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
People.... this can be a good thing. The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade our privacy because it's just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the information will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. Build cheap RFID readers that everyone can own. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Imagine a world where everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recording devices... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
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Behold the evolution of the Goa'uld!
Who says innovation is dead when such wonderful inventions like the cockroach car are being created by the world's best and brightest....
The water to wine thing doesn't hold. It's not a commonly held dogma (leaving backwoods ministers from crazyville out) that Christians are given controllable powers.
Not true.... the Bible clearly states that Christians have been endowed with remarkable powers:
Mar 16:17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover".
Luke 17:6 "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree 'be uprooted and planted in the sea' and it will obey you".
Of course.... I've never seen a Christian with such powers and according to the Bible you can't be a Christain without being able to witness in such a manner but that does not stop stupid people from calling themselves Christains all the time. If some British wanker wants to call himself a Jedi yets lacks the ability to control the Force, I say let him.
There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
Have you been living under a bloody rock? It's Pakistan.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/pakisNope..... no Abu Ghraib torture pics yet.
How come we don't have something like the automatic machine guns that were used in Aliens? I think they'd be great in securing remote points from enemy filtration. All you need is a machine gun with a motion sensor and tracking software.....
Considering the government can now obtain secret warrents and perform search without your knowledge how do you know it has not affected you?
No, it cannot be done at todays day in age, unless you want a really bad computer. I mean, what do you want to do with the computer, just be able to turn it on? Cause thats all you will be able to do with 100 dollars. Even for word processing, you will need a decent size ram, hard drive, motherboard, ethernet port, case. That alone is already at 200 dollars.
You don't need decent size ram, a super large hard drive or an ethernet port for word processing.... unless by word processing you mean Microsoft Office. I remember a great word processor called MultiScribe from BeagleWorks for the Apple IIc that did everything that 95% of the public use Word for. Sure.... it was on a 5 1/4 disk that you had to flip over whenever you wanted to spell-check but it was fast and didn't have Clippy.
If the rat's neural cells can control a virtual airplane in a virtual world how long do you think it will take for someone to connect a wireless robot to the mix? Having the neural cells control an actual machine in the real world seems to open up a lot of possibilities.
Yes, this is interesting but can it sing Daisy?
Hell..... if there are going to be making movies based on old shoot-em ups why not pick one that acutally has an interesting story and plot?
The first article Slashdot posted about Dome C was more informative....
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0
Gee.... thanks Slashdot! Guess there's no reason for me to watch jeopardy anymore. First you tell me that the Lone Gunmen are dead hours before the show aires and now this! Thanks for nothing.....