metric system, being a Canadian down in the states, with my car, when I give people rides and such, they always look at the speed-o-meter/odometer and the outside temp gague and say, geez, I didn't think it was that cold, or geez your car has a high top speed....
I always reply, "That's how cold it is and how fast we have to move in the *REST* of the world"
I generally get a dirty look at that point [LOL]
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The Face Detector
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If something like this were installed in airports, bus terminals, landmarks, and other public places, we could have a very effective way of stopping potential suicide bombers, terrorists or other evildoers in their tracks.
But at the bolded places now, they are already doing this (perhaps with out the face recognition). Ever tried to go to the Sears or the CN Tower or even a ride at an amusement park where they have there "let's take a picture of you, so we can try and sell it to you" after your tour/trip/ride???
Next question, have you ever tried to *NOT* have it taken? I pulled out a pic of myself and g/f at the Sears Tower and told them, 'No, I'm not interested in one, I already have one, just let me through..', and it was "Uhh, sir, it's policy, we have to photo everyone going through."
Hmmmm, I wonder why? If it's just a marketing/$$$ game, then why would the waste the resources to print out my photos when I've stated I won't be buying another one (and even produced a past one to support that argument).
Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid, I would suspect that there is *more* than just a "let's try and sell a tourist a picture" type thing.
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We can't go on like this, with suspicious minds...
To quote our most favorate scoundral, and smuggler....
Where did you dig up that old FOSSIL?!?!?!?!?!?!
Where in the galaxy, (far, far away obiously) did this writer come up with this information? The WEB a "Plesent and well policed suburb"?!@?!?!?!?!? Has this SETH SCHIESEL even been on the internet? What about popups? What about Adware? What about that damn "comet cursor"
Where the heck has this SETH SCHIESEL been?
I can see it now... An Interview with SETH SCHIESEL by Xystren
Xystren : "We would like to welcome SS, foremost NY Times expert on the internet. Welcome SS"
ss : "Thank you, it's a pleasure being here, and more importantly, to provide information about the internet. There are many bad areas in the internet, just like there are bad neighbourhoods in larger citys"
Xystren : "Oh? Is that so? You sound surprised that the internet can be a dangerous place?"
ss : "Well of course, it's not like a policed suburb, we are talking a bad, industral area type thing, you know, where gangs, drugs, and the underground types hang out, ready to mug or hijack you at the earliest opportunity"
Xystren : "Where exactly have you been going to find these nice "suburbs" as you have put it.
ss : "Well, at my work computer (I don't have the internet at home, you see), I go on the internet and search for things. It's really quite a wonderfull tool to tell the truth. All the NY times stories and such. It's really a wonderfull and safe and informative place."
Xystren : "so your saying that you've only gone onto the internet, via the NY Times article search?"
ss : "Exactly!"
Xystren : [trying to contain laughter] "Are you aware that would be condsidered an "inTRAnet" and not the "inTERnet??"
ss : "Uhh, well, they sound the same, aren't they the same thing?"
Xystren : No, they aren't the same things. [turning head shouting] "John, I thought you screened these people, Where did you dig up that old FOSSIL?!?!?!?!?!?! SS doesn't know jack about the internet.[Sorry Xyst, we had time we needed to fill]
SS : Old Fossil? what does that mean?
Xystren : "Why don't you go look it up on google, yahoo, or lycos??"
SS : "What are those?"
Xystren : "What are those!?!?!?!???? What do you mean what are those? They are some of the Internet's most common and popular search engines! Are you even the least bit familar about the internet at all? Have you heard of popups? have you heard about malware? infact, do you even know what browser is???
ss : "Well uhhh, no...."
Xystren : "Where did you even get your information for you research??"
ss : "well, uhh, ummm..."
Xystren : "I can tell, you got it from/. didn't you? ADMIT IT! You did didn't you?
ss : [sheepishly replies] uhh, yeah...
Xystren : "So there you have it, another non-NERD trying to use "News for Nerd - The stuff that matters". This is the real danger of the internet people, BEWARE!
What more can I say???
ss : "I still don't get this 'old fossil'"
Xystren : "it's ok ss, your not a nerd, your not ment to get it"
---
if you can't dazzel them with dexterity, baffle them with bu))$h!t
One of the biggest issues I've had with M$ is with each successive version, the hardware requirements just increasing above and beyond.
I mean really, with the cost to upgrade to XP, plus the cost of hardware upgrades, where the Linux route cost virtually nothing.
If you look closely at a lot of the TCO advertisements and such, they are compared between a mainframe, and a dual-processer Xeon Intel box. Hmmmmm, I wonder where the majority of the TCO is comming from? Hmmmmm. Could it be the HARDWARE? Tell me why they aren't comparing the Linix solution on a dual Xeon Intel box??
Because **IF** the underlying hardware is the same, there is no real comparison for the OS. (Couple thousand vs free) Hmmmmmm. How can one even compare to the other.
It's like putting a leather steering wheel cover on a Kia, and one on a Porsche, and saying that the Kia has the lower TCO. Well, uhhh, DUH!!! The KIA has the lower TCO with out the leather cover also. So does the steering wheel cover really affect the TCO?
These TCO comparisons should be made on the SAME hardware, rather than the vastly different hardware.
---
No matter what happens, act like you meant it to happen!
There is nothing worse than technology forcing people to change their lives or the way the do things for the sake of a "perceived safety".
What about passenger side air bags? How many have a lock out device, when there is a full back seat in the vehicle? None that I know of, but if there is no back seat (such as a front bench in a truck with out a crew cab) you get that "option".
I had a situation where my youngest daughter (10 months at that time) was horribly sick, while my fiance' needed to be in the back seat to watch over baby (baby throwing up 5 minutes or so).
Meanwhile, my 7yr old son, ended up riding in the front seat, with that nasty airbag without any sort of disable device. Situation didn't allow for alternate configuration as we were 50 miles in the middle of nowhere.
Guess how comfortable "I felt" with my unsafe situation, cause by the "perceived safety" of airbags. After all, children under the age of 12 shouldn't sit in the front seat. WHY??? Because the airbag could harm a child under 12yrs of age.
Interesting isn't it? Technology that is forced mandatory (in canada at least), yet hasn't been thought through enough to take in account of this particular situation (and a situation that is **TOTALLLY** in realm of certain posibility).
Gone are the days of Father and son going on a fishing trip, and son having that fun, spiffy, neat-O privlidge of riding in the front seat of the car. Perhaps I'm totaly a lammmmmmer, but when I was a kid, I remember that being a "treat".
They've taken away my "treat" with a "saftey airbag." (go figure huh?)
Perhaps a bit off topic, but it get's the point across. There are times when technology can create a worse situation than they are trying to fix. What about the ingenius idiots that will have the attitude that they can drive longer even when they are tired, because they have the old "super vibra-steering-wheel gizmo" to wake them if the doze off.
Xystren
----
"You can't legislate stupidity." - J. Ventura
Now let's not forget, Santa Pravia, Wilderness Adventure, and Castle Wolfenstien....
No, wait, that last one has been done
Let's hope it can only get better!
Cheers,
Slashdot Mirror
metric system, being a Canadian down in the states, with my car, when I give people rides and such, they always look at the speed-o-meter/odometer and the outside temp gague and say, geez, I didn't think it was that cold, or geez your car has a high top speed....
I always reply, "That's how cold it is and how fast we have to move in the *REST* of the world"
I generally get a dirty look at that point [LOL]
But at the bolded places now, they are already doing this (perhaps with out the face recognition). Ever tried to go to the Sears or the CN Tower or even a ride at an amusement park where they have there "let's take a picture of you, so we can try and sell it to you" after your tour/trip/ride???
Next question, have you ever tried to *NOT* have it taken? I pulled out a pic of myself and g/f at the Sears Tower and told them, 'No, I'm not interested in one, I already have one, just let me through..', and it was "Uhh, sir, it's policy, we have to photo everyone going through."
Hmmmm, I wonder why? If it's just a marketing/$$$ game, then why would the waste the resources to print out my photos when I've stated I won't be buying another one (and even produced a past one to support that argument).
Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid, I would suspect that there is *more* than just a "let's try and sell a tourist a picture" type thing. --- We can't go on like this, with suspicious minds...
To quote our most favorate scoundral, and smuggler....
/. didn't you? ADMIT IT! You did didn't you?
Where did you dig up that old FOSSIL?!?!?!?!?!?!
Where in the galaxy, (far, far away obiously) did this writer come up with this information? The WEB a "Plesent and well policed suburb"?!@?!?!?!?!? Has this SETH SCHIESEL even been on the internet? What about popups? What about Adware? What about that damn "comet cursor"
Where the heck has this SETH SCHIESEL been?
I can see it now... An Interview with SETH SCHIESEL by Xystren
Xystren : "We would like to welcome SS, foremost NY Times expert on the internet. Welcome SS"
ss : "Thank you, it's a pleasure being here, and more importantly, to provide information about the internet. There are many bad areas in the internet, just like there are bad neighbourhoods in larger citys"
Xystren : "Oh? Is that so? You sound surprised that the internet can be a dangerous place?"
ss : "Well of course, it's not like a policed suburb, we are talking a bad, industral area type thing, you know, where gangs, drugs, and the underground types hang out, ready to mug or hijack you at the earliest opportunity"
Xystren : "Where exactly have you been going to find these nice "suburbs" as you have put it.
ss : "Well, at my work computer (I don't have the internet at home, you see), I go on the internet and search for things. It's really quite a wonderfull tool to tell the truth. All the NY times stories and such. It's really a wonderfull and safe and informative place."
Xystren : "so your saying that you've only gone onto the internet, via the NY Times article search?"
ss : "Exactly!"
Xystren : [trying to contain laughter] "Are you aware that would be condsidered an "inTRAnet" and not the "inTERnet??"
ss : "Uhh, well, they sound the same, aren't they the same thing?"
Xystren : No, they aren't the same things. [turning head shouting] "John, I thought you screened these people, Where did you dig up that old FOSSIL?!?!?!?!?!?! SS doesn't know jack about the internet.[Sorry Xyst, we had time we needed to fill]
SS : Old Fossil? what does that mean?
Xystren : "Why don't you go look it up on google, yahoo, or lycos??"
SS : "What are those?"
Xystren : "What are those!?!?!?!???? What do you mean what are those? They are some of the Internet's most common and popular search engines! Are you even the least bit familar about the internet at all? Have you heard of popups? have you heard about malware? infact, do you even know what browser is???
ss : "Well uhhh, no...."
Xystren : "Where did you even get your information for you research??"
ss : "well, uhh, ummm..."
Xystren : "I can tell, you got it from
ss : [sheepishly replies] uhh, yeah...
Xystren : "So there you have it, another non-NERD trying to use "News for Nerd - The stuff that matters". This is the real danger of the internet people, BEWARE!
What more can I say???
ss : "I still don't get this 'old fossil'"
Xystren : "it's ok ss, your not a nerd, your not ment to get it"
---
if you can't dazzel them with dexterity, baffle them with bu))$h!t
One of the biggest issues I've had with M$ is with each successive version, the hardware requirements just increasing above and beyond.
I mean really, with the cost to upgrade to XP, plus the cost of hardware upgrades, where the Linux route cost virtually nothing.
If you look closely at a lot of the TCO advertisements and such, they are compared between a mainframe, and a dual-processer Xeon Intel box. Hmmmmm, I wonder where the majority of the TCO is comming from? Hmmmmm. Could it be the HARDWARE? Tell me why they aren't comparing the Linix solution on a dual Xeon Intel box??
Because **IF** the underlying hardware is the same, there is no real comparison for the OS. (Couple thousand vs free) Hmmmmmm. How can one even compare to the other.
It's like putting a leather steering wheel cover on a Kia, and one on a Porsche, and saying that the Kia has the lower TCO. Well, uhhh, DUH!!! The KIA has the lower TCO with out the leather cover also. So does the steering wheel cover really affect the TCO?
These TCO comparisons should be made on the SAME hardware, rather than the vastly different hardware.
---
No matter what happens, act like you meant it to happen!
There is nothing worse than technology forcing people to change their lives or the way the do things for the sake of a "perceived safety".
What about passenger side air bags? How many have a lock out device, when there is a full back seat in the vehicle? None that I know of, but if there is no back seat (such as a front bench in a truck with out a crew cab) you get that "option".
I had a situation where my youngest daughter (10 months at that time) was horribly sick, while my fiance' needed to be in the back seat to watch over baby (baby throwing up 5 minutes or so).
Meanwhile, my 7yr old son, ended up riding in the front seat, with that nasty airbag without any sort of disable device. Situation didn't allow for alternate configuration as we were 50 miles in the middle of nowhere.
Guess how comfortable "I felt" with my unsafe situation, cause by the "perceived safety" of airbags. After all, children under the age of 12 shouldn't sit in the front seat. WHY??? Because the airbag could harm a child under 12yrs of age.
Interesting isn't it? Technology that is forced mandatory (in canada at least), yet hasn't been thought through enough to take in account of this particular situation (and a situation that is **TOTALLLY** in realm of certain posibility).
Gone are the days of Father and son going on a fishing trip, and son having that fun, spiffy, neat-O privlidge of riding in the front seat of the car. Perhaps I'm totaly a lammmmmmer, but when I was a kid, I remember that being a "treat".
They've taken away my "treat" with a "saftey airbag." (go figure huh?)
Perhaps a bit off topic, but it get's the point across. There are times when technology can create a worse situation than they are trying to fix. What about the ingenius idiots that will have the attitude that they can drive longer even when they are tired, because they have the old "super vibra-steering-wheel gizmo" to wake them if the doze off.
Xystren----
"You can't legislate stupidity." - J. Ventura
Now let's not forget, Santa Pravia, Wilderness Adventure, and Castle Wolfenstien.... No, wait, that last one has been done Let's hope it can only get better! Cheers,