I don't even think we need to tip our hand to show drilling-rig ripened actors since everyone knows we know see any first contact until we begin to discover the fundamental principles of warp drive!
The NFL is not concerned about their highlight tapes. As the article mentioned, they don't want people on the east coast to be able to record a game and send it to someone on the west coast before the game even airs there.
My understanding is the games are blacked out now until every time zone is prime-time so that more people will watch the game and more people will watch the commercials (which is what it's all about anyway, right?)
The Speedpass fob does not have your credit card number IN it - it has its own number that is associated with your credit card. So far, I don't have a problem with that because it's just a gas card anyway.
Here's a quote from the article that I *don't* like and the parent post (and many others) will also have a problem with:
Use in payments: We're working with Visa, which will move from magnetic stripes to contact smart cards and eventually to contactless smart cards (they'll be scanned from a distance, vs. cards that have to be swiped).
How far is a distance????
Later on in the article, though, he says "touch to something to process payment."
Which is it? distance or touch?
And if preferably it is touching it to the payment processor, what *really* is the improvement to swiping there? (besides as he says "hoping the card is not demagnetized)
If you move into a house somebody just moved out of and receieve their junk mail (which is really all that they're getting here) do you think they're really going to care?
It doesn't appear to have any personal emails or anything - just spam for the spammers.
The nature of email doesn't put it in an "envelope" - it's synonymous with a postcard. If the postman or the person who received the card at their newly aquired address end's up reading it, big deal. There's no expectation of privacy.
A search on 'deep link law' will get you these results. Sort by score to bring these to the top.
I wasn't aware that it was ever a law, just that it had been made an issue by a few people who don't realize the purpose of links. But, then again, I might be wrong.
Since when is a beanie a theft sheilding device?
I don't think anyone here is talking about disabling anything so they can shoplift. Once the RFID tags are in their home then they're talking about making sure that they're not active by frying them.
A fellow mentioned the look he got when he goes in to buy rubbers. Like the evil eye he feels like he gets, what's going to happen if you don't want to do this? Most average joes will like the idea, be reminded of Back To The Future 2 and sign right up. But people who are worried about privacy, failure rate, and law enforcment entanglements could automatically be up for suspicious looks if they *don't* fork over a thumb (or any other finger).
Also, since people have been talking about how easy it is to fool a fingerprint biometric scanner - how does this compare to retinal scanning and what are the problems behind *that* method? Visions of the mall scene in Minority Report come to mind.
Works is gone the way most people remember it, actually. The "Works Suite" the parent post referred to is now just M$ Word with the Encarta Encyclopedia and something else like maybe a greeting card app.
Can you change the color and shape of the window border, move the various widgets that control them and make them look like something else, even changing their function?
Can you make my OS X look like Star Trek LCARS interface like I could with OS 9 and Kaleidoscope? (I said *could*, not *did*)
NO
You can't do any of that.
All you can do is go a little farther like changing icons and the color of the buttons to something other than Blue and Grey by using resource hacking utilities, but as the article brought out, many tools are broken with subsequent upgrades to the OS, so maybe those are junk now too.
And Interesting quote from the first article: According to Lessig, Congress has extended copyright terms 11 times since 1962, each just as the copyright on the first Mickey Mouse film, Steamboat Willie, was set to expire.
The work of the creator is art, and should definitely be protected and controlled by the artist (this brings them more profit off their work, hence more incentive to create additional works) But in many cases, the control has been handed over to greedy corporations. The bookmobile may be trying to demonstrate that these corporations (and the politians that pander to their every whim) have affected more than just their target media. Because of the greedy corporations *ahem* Disney *ahem* trying to protect Mickey Mouse, they've deprived everyone of other great works of literature and music (much greater than Mickey Mouse)
I do think it's unfair that it could be taken in the manner that writers are greedy, but that is definitely not the case. The article is not talking about taking away copyrights, it's talking about increaseing public knowledge that their rights may be under attack and that restoring a resonable amount of time after an artists death will increase the value of the public domain and help the commons of information.
I was just going to post something to that effect. IMHO, console games haven't improved all that much. I've looked at XBox and PS2 but just don't see the point when I have a great machine on my desk. I'm just as happy playing old Super Nintendo games when I get nostalgic. The console games just don't do anything for me at all, so I probably won't ever buy one.
As long as there's people like that there will be a market for PC games which I believe have much higher standard in quality and playability (the popular ones anyway)
This page AND This page
explain there are only double sided DVD-Rs which would add up to your 9.4GB, there are no dual layer Recordables just yet. But I'm sure somebody will come up with a way to make them, right?
I don't think they're going to retain the actual data that was transferred, they want to keep track of who (not just xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but Joe Smith from Sometown), sent to who (again a site or another person, not just IP), how they sent it (FTP, HTTP, SMTP), and when they sent it. They're not retaining the actual content that was sent. But still the amount of data to be sifted through is enormous.
I agree completely. This is *exactly* the same as keeping records on our own "real lives" (where we drive, who we speak to, what we read, watch, and listen to) It's just because it's so much easier (relatively) to watch us online that they think it's okay.
It *is* like a cop pulling someone from a crowd because he has a hunch. But all policemen have a different level of training and intuition so some will be more effective.
The article said they can already tell close to what someone is thinking about by what parts of the brain are active. But how good is it at picking out the difference between someone who has an incredible phobia of flying and someone who displays some form of psychosis or is sociopathic? Will it give an enforcement official the advantage despite his own intuition and training or will it just make him and everyone else more paranoid? How well can the system work? They've got to make sure of *zero* false positives.
As the article brought out, they don't even know how to get brain waves out of your head without probes actually touching your scalp. At least they've got a long way to go. But I, for one, am against any sort of brain scan. If an officer comes up to me and asks me to step aside because his intution and training point something out about me, then wouldn't it be easier to reason with him and explain what your situation is like that to try to talk your way out of "I'm sorry sir, but your Terrorist-like Synapses are a little too active, could you please step into this interrogation room?" All this from someone who's only trained to use the machine and not question it?
If I used the faucet as much as I used my phones, I would not only live in a very damp place, but I'd probably be very poor. I'd much rather pay for metered water than for every single LOCAL AREA phone call I make. And yes, as far as I know, water is almost always metered here.
I think he was referring to the link at the bottom of the article that says it seems they are skimming these people's names off public databases instead of finding people who are actually doing it through their own access logs and their own investigation.
BTW, the replies to the linked comment above are interesting too.
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D'oh!... that must be why my favourite restaurant took all the volume switches out of their TVs... time to get the universal remote program back on my Visor
Just because some wrestling is "fake" doesn't mean all wrestling is a sort of violent ballet. I say "fake" in quotes because it certainly wouldn't feel fake to any average person who tried. These people are still professionals in every sense of the word. I don't like wrestling, any form of it is pretty dumb, IMHO, but I "accept" it as a form of entertainment that some people enjoy, not just a form of trickery as some of them most definitely are not.
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I don't even think we need to tip our hand to show drilling-rig ripened actors since everyone knows we know see any first contact until we begin to discover the fundamental principles of warp drive!
CNet Story Here tells a different side.
The NFL is not concerned about their highlight tapes. As the article mentioned, they don't want people on the east coast to be able to record a game and send it to someone on the west coast before the game even airs there.
My understanding is the games are blacked out now until every time zone is prime-time so that more people will watch the game and more people will watch the commercials (which is what it's all about anyway, right?)
Later on in the article, though, he says "touch to something to process payment."
Which is it? distance or touch?
And if preferably it is touching it to the payment processor, what *really* is the improvement to swiping there? (besides as he says "hoping the card is not demagnetized)
If you move into a house somebody just moved out of and receieve their junk mail (which is really all that they're getting here) do you think they're really going to care? It doesn't appear to have any personal emails or anything - just spam for the spammers. The nature of email doesn't put it in an "envelope" - it's synonymous with a postcard. If the postman or the person who received the card at their newly aquired address end's up reading it, big deal. There's no expectation of privacy.
I hate to be offtopic, but here's links (hehe) to what you're referring to:
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
A search on 'deep link law' will get you these results. Sort by score to bring these to the top.
I wasn't aware that it was ever a law, just that it had been made an issue by a few people who don't realize the purpose of links. But, then again, I might be wrong.
I especially like this comment
At least link it
Exactly. And the last thing we need is more telemarketing companies, so why care if more can't afford to start up.
Has it been stated anywhere how much it would cost the telemarketing companies to purchase the list?
Here's another link that was posted to VersionTracker
Since when is a beanie a theft sheilding device? I don't think anyone here is talking about disabling anything so they can shoplift. Once the RFID tags are in their home then they're talking about making sure that they're not active by frying them.
A fellow mentioned the look he got when he goes in to buy rubbers.
Like the evil eye he feels like he gets, what's going to happen if you don't want to do this? Most average joes will like the idea, be reminded of Back To The Future 2 and sign right up. But people who are worried about privacy, failure rate, and law enforcment entanglements could automatically be up for suspicious looks if they *don't* fork over a thumb (or any other finger).
Also, since people have been talking about how easy it is to fool a fingerprint biometric scanner - how does this compare to retinal scanning and what are the problems behind *that* method? Visions of the mall scene in Minority Report come to mind.
Works is gone the way most people remember it, actually. The "Works Suite" the parent post referred to is now just M$ Word with the Encarta Encyclopedia and something else like maybe a greeting card app.
Can you change the color and shape of the window border, move the various widgets that control them and make them look like something else, even changing their function?
Can you make my OS X look like Star Trek LCARS interface like I could with OS 9 and Kaleidoscope? (I said *could*, not *did*)
NO
You can't do any of that.
All you can do is go a little farther like changing icons and the color of the buttons to something other than Blue and Grey by using resource hacking utilities, but as the article brought out, many tools are broken with subsequent upgrades to the OS, so maybe those are junk now too.
Following links, you would find This Article
and
This Article
And Interesting quote from the first article:
According to Lessig, Congress has extended copyright terms 11 times since 1962, each just as the copyright on the first Mickey Mouse film, Steamboat Willie, was set to expire.
The work of the creator is art, and should definitely be protected and controlled by the artist (this brings them more profit off their work, hence more incentive to create additional works) But in many cases, the control has been handed over to greedy corporations. The bookmobile may be trying to demonstrate that these corporations (and the politians that pander to their every whim) have affected more than just their target media. Because of the greedy corporations *ahem* Disney *ahem* trying to protect Mickey Mouse, they've deprived everyone of other great works of literature and music (much greater than Mickey Mouse)
I do think it's unfair that it could be taken in the manner that writers are greedy, but that is definitely not the case.
The article is not talking about taking away copyrights, it's talking about increaseing public knowledge that their rights may be under attack and that restoring a resonable amount of time after an artists death will increase the value of the public domain and help the commons of information.
...which only works for those who either can afford or those who think it's worth the outlandish cost...
I was just going to post something to that effect. IMHO, console games haven't improved all that much. I've looked at XBox and PS2 but just don't see the point when I have a great machine on my desk. I'm just as happy playing old Super Nintendo games when I get nostalgic. The console games just don't do anything for me at all, so I probably won't ever buy one.
As long as there's people like that there will be a market for PC games which I believe have much higher standard in quality and playability (the popular ones anyway)
This page
AND
This page
explain there are only double sided DVD-Rs which would add up to your 9.4GB, there are no dual layer Recordables just yet. But I'm sure somebody will come up with a way to make them, right?
I don't think they're going to retain the actual data that was transferred, they want to keep track of who (not just xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but Joe Smith from Sometown), sent to who (again a site or another person, not just IP), how they sent it (FTP, HTTP, SMTP), and when they sent it. They're not retaining the actual content that was sent. But still the amount of data to be sifted through is enormous.
I agree completely. This is *exactly* the same as keeping records on our own "real lives" (where we drive, who we speak to, what we read, watch, and listen to) It's just because it's so much easier (relatively) to watch us online that they think it's okay.
It *is* like a cop pulling someone from a crowd because he has a hunch. But all policemen have a different level of training and intuition so some will be more effective.
The article said they can already tell close to what someone is thinking about by what parts of the brain are active. But how good is it at picking out the difference between someone who has an incredible phobia of flying and someone who displays some form of psychosis or is sociopathic? Will it give an enforcement official the advantage despite his own intuition and training or will it just make him and everyone else more paranoid? How well can the system work? They've got to make sure of *zero* false positives.
As the article brought out, they don't even know how to get brain waves out of your head without probes actually touching your scalp. At least they've got a long way to go. But I, for one, am against any sort of brain scan. If an officer comes up to me and asks me to step aside because his intution and training point something out about me, then wouldn't it be easier to reason with him and explain what your situation is like that to try to talk your way out of "I'm sorry sir, but your Terrorist-like Synapses are a little too active, could you please step into this interrogation room?" All this from someone who's only trained to use the machine and not question it?
The Thought Police always come to get you when you're sleeping... or when waiting for your laptop to get through the X-Ray machine
If I used the faucet as much as I used my phones, I would not only live in a very damp place, but I'd probably be very poor. I'd much rather pay for metered water than for every single LOCAL AREA phone call I make. And yes, as far as I know, water is almost always metered here.
I think he was referring to the link at the bottom of the article that says it seems they are skimming these people's names off public databases instead of finding people who are actually doing it through their own access logs and their own investigation.
BTW, the replies to the linked comment above are interesting too.
D'oh!... that must be why my favourite restaurant took all the volume switches out of their TVs... time to get the universal remote program back on my Visor
Just because some wrestling is "fake" doesn't mean all wrestling is a sort of violent ballet.
I say "fake" in quotes because it certainly wouldn't feel fake to any average person who tried. These people are still professionals in every sense of the word.
I don't like wrestling, any form of it is pretty dumb, IMHO, but I "accept" it as a form of entertainment that some people enjoy, not just a form of trickery as some of them most definitely are not.