i could combine all of these details, format it in a certain way, trademark that format, use it in some fashion, copyright the use of that fashion, and...
The only solution is for you to copyright all your details, about yourself.
Someone should fire up a dot-com which allows people to copyright all biometric info about themselves. Yes, it would be a registry. No, it wouldn't be "Big Brother" - the purpose would be to allow any individual worried about protecting their information, to have legal grounds to stand on in pursuing action against any other party using that information inappropriately.
A 'clearing house', or 'group repository of biometrics' database, backed by serious corporate power, with the #1 purpose being the consistent and determined protection of individual members biometric info.
Someone, please do this. Give me a way of registering all of my private details, in a fully legal way, and assign me the copyright to all of that information. So that, from that point on, any other company that wants it, has to go through my corporate 800lb biometric ownership clearning house gorilla...
It might sound odd, but sometimes in life the way you fight something is to become it. We consumericans need to form our own corporations/organizations if we truly want to protect ourselves from other corporations/organizations hell bent on abusing biometric system information.
Something like the person who copyrighted their DNA, only bigger, better, with full disclosure, with teeth, and.. the hard part.. with the money and wherewithal to truly go to bat to protect us in times of violation. Call it a "DNA Cult" if you must, but I think its going to be truly necessary, sooner or later.
warning, warning!!! the link provided doesn't actually go to any 'article'. it goes to a blurb introducing the article, which is only available to premium subscribers!
... as long as you hand over your Bigots Of America membership card..
just because i 'belong' to a society doesn't mean i have to agree with its principles. i'd move to a peaceful neighborhood the moment i was sure the good ol' US of A meatheads wouldn't invade it, "just 'coz they have a right to"...
"liberal" (why, thank you very much for drawing lines in the sand).. than a "bleeding-lung meathead, dying in the desert for the love of big brother and a little more love from his father and mother..."
I wish someone would work out how to make a video game actually productive.
I mean, yeah, its entertainment. But its also a total and utter waste of time.
There's an Energy Crisis going on, kiddies. All those HL2 clock cycles are comin' from someones homeland, costing someones blood. Wouldn't it be great if actually there were some result from all that pixel pushing, that actually fed someone?
Okay, I'm cynical. But honest, anyone heard of a productive video game concept? This is new territory. Please explore.
... welcome our new 64-bit microsoft webserver overlords.
oh. wait. no i don't. i never visit microsoft for any reason, whatsoever. stopped using their products, or even caring about them, or their technology, over 10 years ago.
i upgraded from panther to tiger 2 weeks ago, and it looks like it went completely fine.. the only issue i had was that my cinergy T2 (DVB-T receiver) drivers stopped working, but a quick hack of the code and a custom personal build of the driver source later, and wham.. no problems, watchin' telly just fine again.
i wish Apple would update the Dashboard page already, c'mon! i wanna bloat my box with widgets, yo!!:)
one thing is for sure, tiger is faster on my box (17" powerbook) than panther was, and it sure 'feels' smoother, courtesy of CoreImage and all that.. can't wait to get a bit more intimate with Quartz Composer and see what can be done in that department.. or maybe just wait a week or two and see what other hackers come up with.
so i'd say, no sweat with the upgrade path. just do it.
they should just do a Microsoft Linux distro. pack everything up, put in all the stuff thats missing from WINE, and rock on.
there's nothing stopping them from doing it, except pig-headed'ness and stupidity. an MS Linux, designed for all existing Windows users, coming from Microsoft, might actually.. dare i say it.. rock.
The fact that the XFree86 implementation, which is perhaps all you have ever seen..
errmm.. no. i'm running X.org on all my boxen.
X11 was designed for hardware that was much less powerful than today's phones. I used to run X11 and a full SVR3 UNIX system for software development on a 20MHz 386 with 4Mbytes of RAM, and that was a powerful machine at the time. Some X11 implementations are among the most light-weight window systems around.
Yes, I remember running X11 just fine on my MIPS Magnum pizzaboxes, thanks very much.
I don't disagree that X11 can run, just that its pointless for developers to use it if they're working on a new cell phone platform, where there are plenty of other better, smaller, lighter options... and no I don't think that X11-portable apps on a cell phone are a 'feature'. Nice, maybe, but 'feature', no.
Again, someone tell me an X11 app that I want to run on my cell phone. Skype? Heh heh..
yeah, in theory. in practice, it'll be shit to run any X11 app on your phone, where it wasn't designed for in the first place.
and since this article is a developer-focus one (you won't get consumers all excited about this), whats the point? write code for your new GUI environment, yo!
This will never happen. Every single attempt to create a global consciousness is shot down/abused/misused/pilloried by every single other attempt at creating a global human consciousness.
Too many global human consciousnesses, fighting each other, pathetically. We need a Grand Uniter.
I have found it odd that Americans (from what I've seen anyway) are so distrustful of governmental organisations yet so willing to trust a corporation.
Corporations don't use Tanks to Shut Down Protest.
At least, not yet they don't. And corporations have to ultimately answer to the government. Very few governments actually answer to anybody..
.. they went to all that work to make an extender box for the mac mini, and ship 'standard' firewire/usb cables.. 7" and 9" long, respectively.
pfft. if they were a real Apple accessory company, this box'd have its own little, short, 'smart'-looking cables which are neat enough, and only long enough, to stretch from mac mini port to hub port.
niggly point, but a point nevertheless. if i'm going to buy one of these things for my mac mini, i want it to be -neat- and not end up promoting ratsnest cable propagation..
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i could combine all of these details, format it in a certain way, trademark that format, use it in some fashion, copyright the use of that fashion, and ...
The only solution is for you to copyright all your details, about yourself.
.. the hard part .. with the money and wherewithal to truly go to bat to protect us in times of violation. Call it a "DNA Cult" if you must, but I think its going to be truly necessary, sooner or later.
Someone should fire up a dot-com which allows people to copyright all biometric info about themselves. Yes, it would be a registry. No, it wouldn't be "Big Brother" - the purpose would be to allow any individual worried about protecting their information, to have legal grounds to stand on in pursuing action against any other party using that information inappropriately.
A 'clearing house', or 'group repository of biometrics' database, backed by serious corporate power, with the #1 purpose being the consistent and determined protection of individual members biometric info.
Someone, please do this. Give me a way of registering all of my private details, in a fully legal way, and assign me the copyright to all of that information. So that, from that point on, any other company that wants it, has to go through my corporate 800lb biometric ownership clearning house gorilla...
It might sound odd, but sometimes in life the way you fight something is to become it. We consumericans need to form our own corporations/organizations if we truly want to protect ourselves from other corporations/organizations hell bent on abusing biometric system information.
Something like the person who copyrighted their DNA, only bigger, better, with full disclosure, with teeth, and
warning, warning!!! the link provided doesn't actually go to any 'article'. it goes to a blurb introducing the article, which is only available to premium subscribers!
whats with this anyway? full suck, yo!
... as long as you hand over your Bigots Of America membership card..
...
just because i 'belong' to a society doesn't mean i have to agree with its principles. i'd move to a peaceful neighborhood the moment i was sure the good ol' US of A meatheads wouldn't invade it, "just 'coz they have a right to"
Firstly, games are entertainment, and entertainment (music, books, movies, TV) has rarely, if ever, been productive.
sounds like a market opportunity to me!
"liberal" (why, thank you very much for drawing lines in the sand)
But of course, the time you took to post this slashdot comment was entirely productive?
we shall see. i find your act of pre-judice disturbing.
Move along, please, nothing to see here.
famous last words of yet another police-state puppet^H^H^H^H^H^Hvictim.
I would count military flight simulators and ground combat simulators to be pretty productive video games.
these are destructive video games, not productive. know the difference?
why you gotta always be about war, huh? think thats the only way to live your life?
I guess I could have modded you Flamebait or Troll but you're just too fucking stupid to be worth it.
people like you make the war machine go 'round. you make killing worth it, yo!
I wish someone would work out how to make a video game actually productive.
I mean, yeah, its entertainment. But its also a total and utter waste of time.
There's an Energy Crisis going on, kiddies. All those HL2 clock cycles are comin' from someones homeland, costing someones blood. Wouldn't it be great if actually there were some result from all that pixel pushing, that actually fed someone?
Okay, I'm cynical. But honest, anyone heard of a productive video game concept? This is new territory. Please explore.
... welcome our new 64-bit microsoft webserver overlords.
oh. wait. no i don't. i never visit microsoft for any reason, whatsoever. stopped using their products, or even caring about them, or their technology, over 10 years ago.
linux rox. woot! osx too!! woot woot!!
it was in the netherlands that i purchased the cheapest and coolest mp3 player i've ever seen.
..
5 euro's.
it didn't come with storage; it uses SD cards. so no tax applicable here.. because i just add my own 1gig SD cards, and away we go
all this means is, in the netherlands, mp3 playing capability won't be paired with storage.. it'll be a user-add.
Fedex-Tracker Dashboard Widget ..
Yet.
i upgraded from panther to tiger 2 weeks ago, and it looks like it went completely fine
i wish Apple would update the Dashboard page already, c'mon! i wanna bloat my box with widgets, yo!!
one thing is for sure, tiger is faster on my box (17" powerbook) than panther was, and it sure 'feels' smoother, courtesy of CoreImage and all that
so i'd say, no sweat with the upgrade path. just do it.
they should just do a Microsoft Linux distro. pack everything up, put in all the stuff thats missing from WINE, and rock on.
.. dare i say it .. rock.
there's nothing stopping them from doing it, except pig-headed'ness and stupidity. an MS Linux, designed for all existing Windows users, coming from Microsoft, might actually
I've *never* seen 7" or 9" USB/FireWire cables, ever. I'm sure they exist, but I wouldn't call them "standard". Standard is something like 2m and .5m.
... maybe you live in the boondocks?
i've got two of them, right here, standard stock local mediamarkt purchase
the distance between ports when the hub and the mini are on top of each other, is far less than 7 inches. far less than 9.
designing it so it can be placed next to the mini is ludicrous. stacking is the only way to go with the mini!
it just seems to me they chintzed out. give me cable/port arrangements that make things neater, not messier!
its an apple for cryin' out loud!
The fact that the XFree86 implementation, which is perhaps all you have ever seen ..
... and no I don't think that X11-portable apps on a cell phone are a 'feature'. Nice, maybe, but 'feature', no.
..
errmm.. no. i'm running X.org on all my boxen.
X11 was designed for hardware that was much less powerful than today's phones. I used to run X11 and a full SVR3 UNIX system for software development on a 20MHz 386 with 4Mbytes of RAM, and that was a powerful machine at the time. Some X11 implementations are among the most light-weight window systems around.
Yes, I remember running X11 just fine on my MIPS Magnum pizzaboxes, thanks very much.
I don't disagree that X11 can run, just that its pointless for developers to use it if they're working on a new cell phone platform, where there are plenty of other better, smaller, lighter options
Again, someone tell me an X11 app that I want to run on my cell phone. Skype? Heh heh
yeah, in theory. in practice, it'll be shit to run any X11 app on your phone, where it wasn't designed for in the first place.
and since this article is a developer-focus one (you won't get consumers all excited about this), whats the point? write code for your new GUI environment, yo!
Pfft. You don't need X11.
...
directfb+SDL+cairo(glitz)+SVG == pure portable GUI mannah.
I'm lovin' it, personally
What the fuck is a "global consciousness"?
Any large group of people form a global consciousness. Amnest International, UNESCO, The Pepsi Generation, The MTV Generation, etc.
Look beyond your TV screen, Borg-er.
This will never happen. Every single attempt to create a global consciousness is shot down/abused/misused/pilloried by every single other attempt at creating a global human consciousness.
Too many global human consciousnesses, fighting each other, pathetically. We need a Grand Uniter.
Aliens?
I have found it odd that Americans (from what I've seen anyway) are so distrustful of governmental organisations yet so willing to trust a corporation.
..
Corporations don't use Tanks to Shut Down Protest.
At least, not yet they don't. And corporations have to ultimately answer to the government. Very few governments actually answer to anybody
$10 says there are spy hooks all over the place.
.. no thanks.
If they release the source, sure. But binaries-only OS's from shifty gov't types
.. they went to all that work to make an extender box for the mac mini, and ship 'standard' firewire/usb cables .. 7" and 9" long, respectively.
..
pfft. if they were a real Apple accessory company, this box'd have its own little, short, 'smart'-looking cables which are neat enough, and only long enough, to stretch from mac mini port to hub port.
niggly point, but a point nevertheless. if i'm going to buy one of these things for my mac mini, i want it to be -neat- and not end up promoting ratsnest cable propagation
player ..
i only wish i could write code for it. it'd be a great synthesis platform.. (or sampler, even..)